Best Puzzle Game of 2015 - Article
by Craig S , posted on 01 January 2016 / 6,016 Views
Puzzler retail releases are quite rare on consoles, with perhaps the most well-known in recent years being Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, so it's a genre where the nominations are often dominated by the handheld arena or from surprise indie hits. This year is no different in that respect - three of the nominees below are handheld-only titles, and the other two are downloadable indie titles, and we fully expect that at least one of them will be unfamiliar to the majority of our readers. Hopefully this award will give all of the nominees listed below a little bit more exposure; they certainly deserve it.
The Nominees:
Infinifactory
Pokémon Picross
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Puzzle & Dragons Z + Super Mario Bros. Edition
Stretchmo
And the Winner is...
Pokémon Picross
Community's Choice - Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power (30% of the votes)
Pokémon and Picross. It's hard to conceive of two more fiendishly addictive game types, but The Pokémon Company and developer Jupiter combined them for a marriage made in heaven... or hell, depending on your perspective. Pokémon Picross is a great free-to-play puzzler that really manages to scratch that puzzle itch and is therefore our Best Puzzle Game of 2015.
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And i played zero of them this year.
hmm, I think I'll just play more Catherine if thats all we got this year -__-
Trine 3 is actually a great game.
Trine series in general is superior, so sad.
I'm waiting for Puzzle and Dragons to go on sale, it actually looks pretty interesting. Picross on the other hand... As much as I love Pokemon I have absolutely zero interest.
Is it symptomatic of this years puzzle releases, that I immidiately thought of Captain Toad when I thought puyyle games? There really werent many memorable ones.
God I hate puzzle games. The only exception was Tetris.
Wow...
Puzzle game used to mean something very different.
