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Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece


Craft a mansion and uncover mysteries in this exceptional marriage of storytelling and roguelike mechanics.

In fact, the game is so generous that there are apparently no individual puzzles that absolutely require solving in order to reach the 46th room; there are always alternate paths, even if that means starting a new run. The coin purse grants extra gold, and the salt shaker additional steps This returns us to Blue Prince’s slot machine-like core, where there’s always a chance you might get just the room you need, or even better, something you’ve never seen before. I’ve designed alternate reality games like Perplex City with hundreds of interlocking real world and online puzzles that took years to solve, so I recognise how Blue Prince has distributed its clues across its many environments.

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