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Rachel Watts

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From horror gardening sims to RPG puzzlers, here's 15 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this...

From horror gardening sims to RPG puzzlers, here's 15 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this...

List | With a torrent of Steam Next Fest demos released this week, here's a handy list of which ones you have…

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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review: "Totally engrossing, effortlessly stylish, and one of the best...

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review: "Totally engrossing, effortlessly stylish, and one of the best...

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is an intricate puzzle box of interconnected parts. At times it can feel overwhelm…

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Animal Well review — An utterly compelling puzzle platformer that’ll sink its teeth into you

Animal Well review — An utterly compelling puzzle platformer that’ll sink its teeth into you

Animal Well’s ethereal world of satisfying puzzles and endless secrets makes for an utterly spellbinding Metr…

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A Little Perspective sets aside the flashy thrills of perspective-shifting for humble, honest puzzle solving

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By Rachel Watts
| Thinky Games
, 15 April 2026 I’ve played a fair few perspective-shifting puzzle games, and I've loved them all. To name a few, I’ve enjoyed wrapping my brain around Superliminal's playful focus on size, Viewfinder's copy-and-paste photography, Manifold Garden's tessellated wonderland, and the game that inspired them all, Fez. They’re slick and exciting, focused on eye-popping visuals and the thrills of reshaping reality.
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Use a wonderful set of cartography tools to map out different landscapes in Beware of the Cartographer!

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By Rachel Watts
| Thinky Games
, 9 March 2026 I cannot get enough of games where you use in-world tools to solve puzzles. One of my favourite puzzle games from last year, Strange Antiquities, did exactly that - rummaging through ancient tomes and using different items to better understand an ancient relic. I loved cracking out the magnifying glass in Blue Princeto look at the finer details of a document or looking at the inner margins of a book.
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I thought I was good at nonograms, but then I got humbled by CiniCross

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By Rachel Watts
| Thinky Games
, 11 February 2026 I treat nonograms as my grandma hobby. I like to sit down with a mug of tea, get comfy on my couch, and work my way through a handful of nonogram grids. It's the perfect way to unwind, and after dabbling with these logic puzzles for a good number of years, I feel confident saying I'm pretty good at them. I consider myself someone who knows her way around a grid.
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