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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game.

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Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”

PreMortem.Games

Ideas for the game’s content were inspired mainly from movies and TV shows, while the game designs came from the games the team loves to play, like Everquest for the open world concept and The Vanishing Hitchhiker for the atmosphere. Some started from a puzzle standpoint. Others started with a theme.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. In many respects, this change isn’t particularly surprising.

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Tower of Fantasy – Is the Game Really a Genshin Impact With a Social Twist?

Game Refinery

The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy.

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Top 10 Games of 2023 & Why They Made it to Our List

iXie gaming

Also, its flexible quest system and roleplaying elements have left players enjoying hundreds of hours of amazing content. This game is based on the popular trend, open world, and focuses on experimentation and exploration. However, Tears of the Kingdom still improves on perfection and manages the impossible.

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Months Late Game Review, Part 2. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Some Bad Things.

The Bottom Feeder

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. It means a huge chunk of bespoke content won't be played much. You need to look for ways to stretch the content inexpensively. You have to use a dozen of these towers to map the world.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

At the same time, cross-platform open-world RPG Genshin Impact continues to break new ground, crossing its $3 Billion in IAP Spend in Q2 2022. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. Until next week. ?