Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Players can join Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they embark on epic quests, solving intricate puzzles, facing dynamic combat challenges, and exploring breathtaking environments. Players step into the boots of Arthur Morgan, a Van der Linde gang member, as they navigate a world on the brink of modernization.

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Graphics Racing Entertainment Games 52

Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

Imagine that you can enter the world of your favorite game. Walk its streets, look into the eyes of the main character, solve tricky puzzles with your own hands. There is no better way to immerse yourself in a game world than virtual reality, because VR games offer us a whole new perspective. Shorter gameplay.

Indy 52

Indy AAA Games Mechanics 52

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. So, technically Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t released in 2022.

Mobile Gaming 98

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 98

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

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.

Mobile Gaming 52

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Sandbox 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. You have to use a dozen of these towers to map the world. Each has a puzzle you have to solve, and the puzzles all use different abilities and parts of the engine.

Cutscenes 81

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 81

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. All the murder scenes are fictional”, assures Tomi.

Studios 125

Studios Puzzle Game Design Game Designer 125

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy Co-op Open World Feature 52

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The most significant growth in revenue was seen in the following sub-genres: Open World Adventure is a newborn sub-genre that grew by 622% this year. To put the Strategy genre in proportion, it generates a whole Billion more than all Puzzle games combined. Meanwhile, Legendary was clinging to its share of the pie.

Cross platform 52

Cross platform Platformer Puzzle Mobile 52

Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Is your world stormy and moody, or bright and sunny? Is there a fog obscuring hidden threats, or is the level in clear view for easy puzzle-solving? The best way to understand the atmosphere may be through an example.

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Games Mechanics Fantasy Art 136

Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It's really just a series of supply fetch quests and "find yet another character whose name rhymes with 'son' (in this big huge open world)" but it feels like you are helping establish an entire new town in the wilderness - leaves you with a genuine "I helped people" feeling.

Fighting 105

Fighting NPC Mechanics Build 105

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling. If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. Stuff that in many ways was quite a bit fancier than what WoW eventually did. This, in fact, was what my signature design style was.

Sandbox 64

Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

While some players enjoy puzzling out creative ways to get ahead, at the extreme end it eventually devolves into optimal tedium which is overall harmful to the experience. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52