Recommendations for Steam's big puzzle game sale

rockpapershotgun.com:

The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is underway on Steam, offering demos and discounts on puzzle games until Monday. It is quite a lot of puzzle games. If your head feels itchy and your brain distinctly unteased, here, I have a few recommendations to get you started.

As I've written before, it takes tile-flipping ideas of match-3 games but has you finding the correct order to make matches and carefully remove every tile until nothing remains. I dig it!

This murder mystery aboard a cursed ship has been cheaper in sales before, but it's still one of the very best puzzle games and worth it. The Obra Dinn has been found adrift, her entire crew dead or missing, and it's up to you to figure out what happened with the help of a magic pocketwatch which lets you revisit the frozen moment of someone's death. So to fill out our ledger, we must identify bones and uncover what caused them to become bones, by listening to moments of drama, cross-referencing with illustrations, scruntising socks of sleeping sailors, tracking relationships, and so many more techniques to solve the serial catastrophes. A deductive delight. I adore the clanging bells on the soundtrack, too.

See our Return Of The Obra Dinn review for more, and we declared it our favourite game of 2018 too. If you've already got it, hey, maybe you'll enjoy The Mechanic's chat with creator Lucas Pope about that vital ledger.

That's a hell of a lot of Minesweeper-ish logic puzzling for two quid. John Walker was a huge fan of the series, reviewing all three games in this bundle across the years: Hexcells, Hexcells Plus, and Hexcells Infinite. In the last of those three reviews, he said the series "offers that ideal position of apparent simplicity, but a depth of complexity." I have