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This really is 20 Small Mazes, a puzzle game with 20 small mazes. Each of the 20 small mazes has a unique mechanic to it that makes solving all 20 small mazes fun. Solving 20 small mazes is free, and only took me about 60 small minutes.

You can toggle fatigue and traffic offenses off to make this into a racing game. One of my favorite games I've played in recent time. The controls are very easy to learn. A solid recommend at its usual $5 sale price.

TL;DR: If you like environmental puzzles, and thoroughly exploring realistic, detailed areas for solutions and lore, these are INFRA's strongest aspects. Be willing to analyze and understand these environments though, however long they may take.

INFRA is an interesting game to recommend. Its strongest aspects are its environments and its puzzles. The environments are very detailed and realistically laid out, and exploring these areas are fun. Most of the puzzles in the game require you to really take a look at your surroundings and think about how things are connected. The one puzzle I think most exemplifies this is an optional puzzle where you could fix a water filtration plant and get clean water going out to the city.

I spent maybe three hours in this area searching around trying to get everything set up correctly and solved. It turns out the solution was given to me in a document that I looked at, but didn't process as the solution. This document told me what I needed to do, but it was still up to me to interpret it and really understand the layout of the map it was giving me to do this. The game sometimes has these puzzles that might seem too obtuse, but it makes sense if you stop and really analyze things.

I think it's parts like this that make me hesitant to recommend this game as something everyone should play, because I feel you have to be a certain kind of player to get the most enjoyment out of a puzzle game like this. This game has what I think may be the strongest environmental puzzles in any game I've played. It rewards you for understanding the area you're in. BUT, that understanding comes from poking around and looking at just about everything in your environment. If you like thoroughly exploring and searching your surroundings for possible pieces to a solution, there's plenty of puzzles like that in Infra. These puzzles can be time consuming because of things like looking for an object you might need, or figuring out how to navigate to a certain area to progress.

The game also has lore you can uncover through documents you find scattered through the world. It details a conspiracy that is very fleshed out and makes sense when all put together. People that want more to the story in how and why the environments you're traveling through got to this state will be satisfied. There's a history to the world, and you can uncover a ton of it.

This is not a horror game, but the isolation you feel while in these environments definitely can feel unnerving at the very least. I had that feeling a few times during my playthrough, wondering if the game would do something while I wasn't expecting it. I remember one way they did this was having you enter a room and seeing in the distance what looks like a figure standing there, but then you walk up to it and find it only looked like a person because of the angle you were looking at it from when you entered, and it may not have even been intended to scare you. Moments like that are funny, but they definitely put that thought of "what if?" in the back of your mind.

There's a lot to this game. You could rush and solve the minimum puzzles needed to progress, but then you miss out on the great urban exploration. Exploring rewards you with documents, photo opportunities, resources, and lore. In that regard, taking your time with the game is the best way to play it. In a game about a structural analyst, of course the game rewards you for analyzing your surroundings, and using your brain to understand and solve its puzzles. INFRA has a really unique puzzle design philosophy; one that I hadn't yet experienced elsewhere, and am glad that I did.

A short, but fun parkour game. Combat kills the pace, but the first person platforming is the best aspect of the game. Play it on Easy, because the combat is the worst aspect about the game.

RetroArch combines many different emulators into an all-in-one program that, while takes some time to understand its many menus, becomes one of the best way to play your old games. There is so much customization you can do within RetroArch, that you can tailor games to look and play exactly how you want them to be.

If you enjoy games where you can load it up and hang out, this is perfect for it. The hub world has lots of activities to do, as well as a bunch of minigames so good that they could stand alone as their own separate titles. It's a great social game to join in with some friends on and explore or mess around. Everything in the game can be earned through in-game currency and achievements. No microtransactions to buy stuff, all the cosmetics are in the game for you to unlock.

A very well-made mod. I picked it up again after hearing the developers made an easier difficulty mode. While I still found some maps challenging, it was much more in line with Portal 2's later difficulty. I recommend playing this if you have a Portal itch.

Even years later, this is a fantastic co-op game to come back to. With the Last Stand update releasing, there's plenty of people playing every map and mode you could want. There's no better time to pick up the game.

A really fun Mafia-genre game for a cheap price. Well worth it if you play with friends, but communicating in public lobbies isn't as fun when I can't hear everyone screaming over each other.

The concept of a puzzle game where you have to change the rules of the level to solve it is such a unique concept and Baba Is You does it so well. I recommend this game but there's a big caveat to it. This is a not a casual game to relax with. The difficulty doesn't ramp up in a progressively more challenging way. Early levels in some worlds are more difficult to figure out than later ones that are supposed to be more challenging. You could spend 40 minutes on one level and the next two could take five minutes. The game also introduces new rules into levels and you NEED to do a lot of trial and error to learn everything you can do with that rule, and how exactly they work when you make those rules. If you can't figure out how or why certain rules are causing different effects, levels are going to take an abnormal amount of time to solve. One example with me was a level that let you make the rule EMPTY IS YOU . It isn't clear how that rule moves because it can end up getting stuck after a while and it isn't allowed to move anymore, but before that it's totally fine.

Watch some people play the game first to see just how long it can take someone to figure out the puzzles in this game. They're amazing puzzles but man can they take forever to figure out how to make progress in them. The game will give you your "aha!" moments but even when it does, sometimes you won't understand why what you did to solve the puzzle even worked to begin with.