VOI is a minimalistic puzzle game that explores the relationships between negative and positive space. With its calming, ambient soundtrack and sharp lines, VOI provides a meditative, sometimes challenging gaming experience.

VOI has a lot in common with tangram puzzles, where you must combine simple shapes together to create larger, more complex shapes (think making the outline of a rabbit from a bunch triangles and … Read More

Da Vinci Corde is a cute, yet complex puzzle game that asks you to piece together some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s fantastic creations. To solve each puzzle, you’ll need to find the right connections for each mechanical system by tying ropes around pulleys, wheels, and strategically placed hooks.

As you progress through Da Vinci Corde, you’ll be confronted with a variety of unique technological … Read More

Lemmus Lemmus is a bizarre, little puzzle game built for the MADJAM 2016: Global Game Jam where you must appease a monster by commanding a group of villagers to perform various feats of human acrobatics.

In Lemmus Lemmus, you’ll control various villagers of different sizes, stacking them up to match the drawing provided by the monstrous mountain beast. You only have until the end … Read More

Canveus is a Myst-esque, first-person puzzle game built for MystJam where you must solve a series logic puzzles in order to restore color to the drained, lifeless sky.

Canveus is an extremely polished and elegant-looking game. Both the choice of texture and its simplistic color palette complement the game’s themes beautifully. The machinery of the world feels meticulously designed, with cogs whirring and lights … Read More

.ritual is a stylish low-poly, first-person puzzle adventure game where you play as a young space wizard exploring a long forgotten city.

As you explore the ruins of the world, you must collect and reunite the scattered shards of an ancient, unknowable relic. Navigating this strange realm requires powering a series of architectural artifacts using the colored power orbs you find strewn across the land. … Read More

Chrono Disfunglement is a stylish platformer that combines elements from adventure games, puzzle-solving, and the awesome time control ability like  Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and expands on it.

This is a student project from Digipen that was released last year.  You’ll traverse gorgeous game levels that are reminiscent of the sky obstacle courses from Super Mario Sunshine, floating blocks and geometric … Read More

The Body Changer is a 3D action adventure with an innovative character-switching control system, space-zombies and original puzzle design.

Set in a hostile space-station, gameplay revolves around a unique character swapping system, which allows you to directly control drones with unique skill-sets which will help you solve the games inventive puzzles.  You’re a SynB, a drone who must clear the space-station of all the hostile … Read More

Libratopia is an inventive text based puzzle game that see’s you performing a string of searches in a library database, using the info from the current search results to figure out the book title, author or user name that you’re supposed to search for next.

It’s an interesting concept (if a little hard to describe), and during the short playthough of the prototype, it throws … Read More

Radical Squad: Explosive Locomotive is a fast paced puzzle adventure game that tasks you with disarming 5 bombs on a moving train under tight time constraints.

Bombs are disarmed in a variety of ways, all requiring experimentation, camera panning to spot critical objects, various different tools, brainpower, dexterity and a little luck.  It’s a tense game, and it’s fun trying to work out the various … Read More

In Between is an beautifully animated platformer that features some fiendishly clever gravity based puzzles and a story that illustrates the struggle of coping with death.

Gravity flipping puzzle platformers have been seen before, but the 4 directional gravity flipping is used to wonderful effect in In Between, thanks to some ingenious level design, that will usually test your reflexes just as much as your … Read More

Invertium is a dark sci-fi platformer with physics-based mechanics that immerses you in a world of challenging gravity, motion and time puzzles.

In this beautifully animated puzzle/platformer you have the ability to control gravity, stop time and slow physical forces.  These powers are used to solve a variety of physics based puzzles that require logic and fast reaction speeds.  The ability to alter gravity through … Read More

We see a lot of interesting games at Alpha Beta Gamer, but Gorogoa is 15 minutes of the most unique, innovative and intelligent gameplay we’ve experienced this year.

Gameplay is spilt across four beautifully illustrated and animated panels that helped win it the IGF Excellence in Visual Arts Award.  These four panels can be moved around, zoomed in and out of and placed on top … Read More

Glitchspace is a first person programming game that’s centred around a visual programming mechanic to change the shape and purpose of objects.  Set in a cyberspace world with simple solid colors and shading, you have to solve problems by reprogramming objects, altering their physical properties to allow your passage through the levels.

Glitchspace teaches you how to use its node-based programming system called Null through … Read More

Tricone Lab is a fun puzzle game where each level is a microscopic multicellular organism.  You must utilise the different resources within the cell to create a substance called Tricone.  This starts off very easily, but soon gets tougher as more catalysts and molecules get introduced, creating complex logic puzzles that require some experimentation.

The graphical style is pleasingly simple, with each multicellular organism reacting … Read More

Apexicon is a fun word based puzzle RPG, with upgrades, special moves and a surprisingly enjoyable story.

At it’s core, the aim is to make words that are as long as possible form the selection of letters available, then ‘attack’ your opponent, dealing damage equal to the length of the word.  It’s a good system, with added depth thanks to the green healing letters and … Read More

Indie Devs, Gamious, are holding a name the game competition for their unnamed physics based puzzle/platrormer featuring a size-changing neon ball coming to Ouya, iOS, Android & PC.  The game is a lot of fun, and tests your reflexes and puzzle solving skills, with the size-changing game mechanic being used to great effect, with size changes also affecting your mass and momentum.

Once you’ve played … Read More

Tri is a first-person 3D platformer set in an East Asian abstract world where your objective is to collect three statues hidden within the level by jumping, sprinting, crouching and using the only tool in your arsenal; that tool is of course, the triangle!  While the concept may sound elementary, Tri is a great brain-teaser where you’re faced with walls to scale up and obstacles … Read More

Cadence is a great new audio/visual puzzle game where your goal is to join up musical nodes in such a way that they create an infinite loop, capable of perpetually continuing the melody into infinity.  This may sound overly complicated, but in reality it’s remarkably easy to pick up and play, with multiple solutions to puzzles and lots of fun to be had from experimentation.… Read More

Standpoint is a first-person puzzle-platformer, where you can manipulate the orientation of your surroundings to allow you to traverse levels.  It’s an inventive mechanic, when combined with the striking visual style and accompanying narrator, it comes across as a great mixture of VVVVVV and Portal.

Standpoint is shaping up to be an enjoyable and intelligent first person puzzler, the Beta Demo includes the prologue for … Read More

In-Vivo puts you in the shoes of an alien abductee, trying to escape the spaceship of your captors.  Unfortunatley, due to the tranquilisers they have you on, you only have 30 seconds to make your escape, before passing out and being taken to your cell.

Things are made slightly easier by the ‘dream state’ you enter when you pass out, allowing you to freely roam … Read More

Somebody has been communicating with the Moon. Somebody that doesn’t understand what ancient forces they’re dealing with. Somebody that doesn’t realise how seriously they’ve upset the studies of the very eminent scientist and astronomer, Dr Dog. For Dog this means it’s time for some investigation, and probably a bit of a walk.

Moon is a fun little 2D platforming puzzle game that puts you in … Read More

UPDATE: This Beta Is No Longer Available… Read More