Gaming News PS5: 7 puzzle and brain games to heat up the brain
For fans of riddles and puzzles, the PlayStation 5 has a catalog full of titles that will make gamers scratch their heads. If you are interested in this kind of experience, the JV editorial team offers you 7 puzzle games to try as soon as possible.
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- Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
- Forget Anne
- Inside
- Magnetic: cage closed
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
- hoarfrost
- The last campfire
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a title from Unspeakable Pixels that mixes action and puzzles. With your racket, you’ll have to traverse hundreds of rooms and face the different bosses that rise in front of you. On your way you will meet different characters who will become your allies and can help you navigate your surroundings. Depending on the situation, the game adapts because your hero, who is a barbarian, can drop his best lines, both very serious and completely outlandish. The entire reflective part of the title focuses on the choice of path, those who are inaccessible will ask you to find a mechanism to free the passage.
Forget Anne
Forget Anne is a 2D game that puts you in the role of Anne, a guardian of order in the Forgotton Realm. As a rebellion brews, our heroine must bring peace to this world where forgotten things become Oblivions, beings who, despite the prohibitions, try at all costs to find their owner. Anne must then make decisions that may have dire consequences for this universe. To help her in her quest, she is equipped with a gauntlet capable of not only distilling Oblivion, but also controlling the anima, a kind of electricity in the game universe. While the title remains very accessible, some puzzles are sometimes complex and require that you master the different mechanics to advance and defeat the enemies on your way.
Inside
Inside is an adventure and exploration game from the Playdead studio, to which we already owe Limbo, another title with a fairly similar concept. However, Inside wants to get more intense, obscure and macabre as the player embodies a little boy with his face obliterated who is being watched by men in bl ack suits. Throughout the experience, the scenario remains discreet and subtle to allow everyone to have their own interpretation of events. Controller in hand, the gameplay is linear, alternating between platforming and puzzle phases with always the same gameplay, but new, more complex mechanics are sometimes added to spice up the game. The interior is minimalist to the end as there is no music, only sound effects to make the atmosphere heavier.
Magnetic: cage closed
Magnetic: cage closed is a first-person puzzle game developed by Guru Games. The player embodies a character locked in a vast complex from which he must escape guided by a mysterious being. As the name suggests, the gameplay is based on controlling magnetic waves with the magnet gun, which creates magnetic fields and attracts or moves objects away. Obviously the title is heavily inspired by Portal, sometimes requiring you to carry a cube to activate switches. Since each level is littered with traps to avoid, the game leaves very little rest, especially if we add its oppressive atmosphere.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is a crossover between the universes of Tetris and Puyo Puyo that allows you to play the gameplays specific to each of these two licenses in a single puzzle game. If Tetris is the duo’s most famous title, you might not know Puyo Puyo. Don’t worry, the principle is very simple, as you have to line up 4 blobs of the same color to make them all disappear at once, earning points. The challenge then is to create chains that burst at the same time to make the maximum number of combos. If the main interest of the title is being able to confront other people, the game is still accompanied by a fairly light and secondary scenario that gives context to the experience. This is how we discover the character of Ringo, a young girl who is a fan of Puyo Puyo and sees how her daily life is turned upside down by the arrival of Tetris players. Finally, several game modes are available to spice up the games, especially by emphasizing speed.
hoarfrost
In hoarfrost, play as a young boy who is just stranded on an uncharted island and needs to explore the surroundings and solve various puzzles to understand where he is. Aside from its gorgeous landscapes, the game remains minimalist and relies on game mechanics that use sound, light, or time. The whole adventure takes place in Mediterranean settings, accompanied by a very pleasant soundtrack that makes the title an experience of reflection as much as contemplation. If the narration is quite light at first, it becomes more dramatic but discreet, which will require some players to play the game several times to understand all the issues.
The last campfire
With The last campfire, from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man’s Sky, immerses the player in a magical world inhabited by strange and mysterious creatures. We control Ember, a lost traveler who must light her last campfire before returning home. During her adventure she must explore the Limbo where she encountered lost souls. Once you come into contact with them, several puzzles will appear that need to be solved in order to help the ghosts. If you don’t like the Enigma side, know that it’s possible to skip these phases of reflection to focus solely on the story thanks to the exploration mode.
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