Zoo Keeper is a great puzzle game that was released in the West! Um, on some platforms. This 3DS installment remained confined to Japan, and that’s a shame because it’s a lot of fun and could have done a lot for owners of the handheld back in 2011. Watch!
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Puzzle & Dragons X was our 2016 import game of the year, and with good reason: it expands upon the foundation set by Puzzle & Dragons Z and creates a wider, more immersive world in which to match some colored orbs! Check out our video for a good look at the game.
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In the DS days, Nintendo published a lot of touch-friendly all-ages games that would foreshadow the mobile app era that was ahead. Brain Age! Polarium! Professor Layton! Touch Panic!
If you haven’t heard of that last one, you’re forgiven: it didn’t release in the West. But it’s incredibly import-friendly and you should play it. Check out our video for a better look!
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Puyo Puyo is great. We’ve told you that already. You can even play it through a few Western 3DS releases now! But here’s the thing: that’s not enough Puyo.
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This is Funassyi. Funassyi is… a pear? But also a mascot? For a region, but no entity in particular? And the star of this 3DS game that’s reminiscent of Puzzle & Dragons? I… you know, just watch the video.
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In the world of puzzle games, 2015 was an especially thinking-heavy year. It always is, I suppose! But this year, it wasn’t counter-balanced by a desire for speed or complicated by physics or other traversal challenges. It was, as it happens, a pure year for the genre. And one dominated by Nintendo.
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Around here, we like both Pokémon and Picross, so Pokémon Picross is a big deal. We’ll walk you through the new 3DS free-to-play title and show off what it has to offer!
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Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX‘s September 8 release is certainly an enticing one for Miku fans and rhythm game players, but its release is significant in a totally different way for fans of falling-block puzzlers: it’s the first appearance of the Puyo Puyo franchise in the West in quite some time.
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Ever feel like you’re playing the same game? Take a break from that with Same Game, a Hudson Soft-developed SNES game with a weird cartridge and timeless puzzle gameplay! Graham and Jenni put their puzzler powers to the test.
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