Blue Prince

This would make my Top 10 favorite games list across all genres. I played it while screen-sharing with a friend and we solved the puzzles and mysteries together. I think the less you know about it going in, the better.

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Blue Prince became one of my all time favorite games once I started to understand it a bit better. The puzzles are deep and multilayered, any point you think a detail is irrelevant you are proven wrong, and the personal note taking required is astounding. I hope to come back to it some day to finish the later puzzles, but unfortunately I currently don't have the time.

What starts out as a simple concept with so much unknown turns into a journey of exploration and puzzles that grows on you and makes you want to just try one more attempt. It's fun, it's addictive, it's unique. Well worth it for the experience.

Very different and unique game. Would absolutely recommend it to others. Progress on some quests is dependent on RNG for things to all be there which becomes obnoxious at times but still fun.

Astonishing experience and truly brilliant design. I lived and breathed this game for a month or so. Completed the "main" objective around the 30-hour mark. Incredibly satisfying to slowly put all your knowledge and experience together with every breakthrough and discovery. But by then I was only just realizing how much more there was, how almost every little thing I encountered actually had some deeper reason, how many more layers there were. I did eventually plumb the very excellent Blue Paths hint system as the returns on time spent hoping for fortuitous drafts extended and clues got more esoteric, scattered, infrequent. But it's a long tail of things to do and places to explore and story to fill in that's satisfying no matter how far one goes.

So many clues and things hidden all around.