Blue Prince is a puzzle feeling that has surprised the world, a mix of bent over the genres of log leaks and environment puzzles, and to a degree difficult to fully explain.
Through the simple act of drafting a blueprint for a changing mansion, you uncover all kinds of secrets, both moving forward with progress and revealing the story. And you thought it was rewarding to just renovate your living room!
Finding an exact existing match can be difficult, given the precise mixture of Blue Prince genre and gameplay elements is so unique.
However, if you widen your scope a little, there are quite a few games with at least some of the same ingredients, even if you focus on environmental puzzles, loops, and roguelike frameworks. Of them, these are the 10 that really hurt that intellectual itch.
10 Lorelei and the Laser Eye
Look with your special eyes
Something like the requirement for success in puzzle games like Blue Prince is the ability to see through situations where it appears impossible or confusing to find the core of the senses inside. If you want a weird game to test the limits of perception, try Lorelei and Laser Eyes.
Lorelei and The Laser Eyes are very strange games. Young woman is brought to an old mansion and in some way completes an unspecified project. Once she enters the mansion and begins to solve many of its puzzles, things may just become strangers and begin to become more abstract, and reality itself may begin to collapse.
The commonality between Lorelei, Laser Eyes and Blue Prince is nonlinear. The original game design of the former and the roguelike elements of the latter often complete puzzles in the order they find them.
9 Forgotten City
Social Deduction Game
A general interpretation of the “Golden Rule” is “please make them others, so that you can do it.” In Forgotten City, the rules have been changed to a somewhat extreme variant, with “many people suffering from sin.” If you don’t want to suffer because of Jerk’s wrongdoing, you need to make the noodles work.
It’s a forgotten city Mystery and deduction game where you are cheered up in ancient Greek cities. If someone is considered morally wrong, the entire city masses will be punished, and your only escape is the time loop. To resolve a mystery, you need to talk to everyone, remember individual schedules, and carry out interference to prevent false crimes.
It’s a different kind of puzzle from Blue Prince, but it’s also a game that encourages ready-to-use thinking, and you could also benefit from having a pencil and scratch paper on hand.
8 Outer Wild
Find a clue on another planet
Speaking of time loops and puzzles, perhaps the best-known game that contains both instances is the rave reviewed Outer Wild. If you’re skilled at finding many details about the Blue Prince puzzle, let’s take a look at how good it is to drive clues around the entire solar system.
In the outer wild, there are short windows that send you back through a time loop before the sun at the center of the solar system becomes a supernova. Meanwhile, you need to Carefully pilot the ship around the planets of the system to reveal the remains of a lost civilization And decode the crumbs into the universe’s revelation they left behind.
Neither the Outer Wild nor the Blue Prince are games where you hold your hands through the puzzle solved process. There are no hints or difficulty settings. You either understand that or don’t. The difference with the Outer Wiles is that you are subject to certain time constraints.
7 The 7th guest
Another mansion, but creepy
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Developer |
Miyoware |
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release date |
April 28, 1993 |
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Platform |
PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch |
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Genre |
Adventure, puzzles |
1993 was a good year for video games in general, and puzzle adventure games in particular. We saw classic releases like Sam & Max returning to Zarku and of course the creepy atmosphere of the seventh guest.
As a memory loss hero, when he finds himself in a seemingly abandoned mansion, he is led by the spirit of the guests of the party who set out to understand what happened. Almost every mansion room has some sort of logic puzzle to solve. Each success gradually unravels this supernatural mystery party.
The seventh guest is like a blue prince without the guelike elementand perhaps in a creepy wallpaper coat. Instead of randomness, it attacks you with puzzles and capers one after another to challenge your deduction skills.
6 witness
(IL) A logical approach
One of the great attractions of the Blue Prince is the amount and quality of backstory and intrigue you can find between and between puzzles. However, puzzles are not necessary in the way of setting dressing. If you want more puzzles and fewer stories, it’s the job for the witness.
Witnesses have at least not spoken out openly. You are on the island, there are over 500 puzzles, solve them. It’s not much easier than that. Many of these puzzles have some similarities, but each fine-tunes the formula established with both subtle and overt manners, so you won’t solve the same puzzle twice.
Put the dressing aside, Eyewitnesses have adopted healthy elements such as pattern recognition and logical deductions to share some puzzle DNA with the Blue Prince. If you’re looking to the details, these are both games you can beat.
5 Loop hero
It’s not exactly the same
The clever person once said that if you read them twice the story changes. Notice new elements, interpret events differently, and walk away with a unique experience. Roguelike Games is like that, and like Blue Prince, the loop hero changes that song at the start of every fresh run.
In Loop Hero, a terrible spell left the world in a broken loop state. Remembering memories of the world allows you to reconstruct them in the void and search for resources. Through randomized cards, you can build maps of interest and regions where heroes can follow the journey of the loop, and change their paths to uncover new equipment, campsite upgrades, and important clues to the world’s destiny, if necessary.
Like the Blue Prince, Loop heroes require a little planning and strategy to create an ideal layout. Some cards need to be played in a specific order to optimize your adventure and get the best gear before tackling more powerful monsters.
4 room
Oh, there’s a puzzle
Not all games have the scope necessary to render an entire mansion full of puzzles like the Blue Prince. If you’re looking for a bite-sized environmental puzzle game, enter the attic and access the room (not related to that one movie).
The room is a bite-sized mystery, and is presented with a gorgeous safe with elaborate sculptures and gimmicks on every side. Only by carefully stitching each puzzle together and determining their relationship with each other Break the proverb peanuts and discover what’s inside.
If you’re not sure if you can handle the caliber and volume of more elaborate puzzle games like Blue Prince, this room might be a good way to test your metle with less constraints. I am endlessly satisfied with solving seemingly dull puzzles. After finishing it and moving to the Blue Prince, you will feel more of a sense. And hey, if you crave it too fast and more, the good news: there are four of these games.
3 Senard’s Chorus
Learn one or two languages
Language can be said to be one of the oldest puzzles and solutions in human history. I can’t even imagine how long it must have taken me to realize that two ancient societies have different words for the same thing. But if you want to know, Senard’s chant is the closest thing to those ancients.
Senard’s hymn requires you to cross a giant Babel-like tower, home to five different societies. As these societies do not share the language spoken or written, To find the points of their commonality, you need to gradually logic the meanings of various words and symbols. It is a Ground Zero Language code break that connects people through lost root dialects and shared history.
There are many chord breaks between Sennaar and Blue Prince chants, and both games require special attention to the words and stories you are revealing. Of course, since Blue Prince is in English, there is no need to take the extra step to analyse and understand, as in Senard’s chant.
2 Animals well
Evolving Vania
The main goal of the Blue Prince is to gradually uncover the map of the apartment and carefully draft the rooms in the ideal order to avoid dead ends and find upgrades and services. The emphasis on map mechanics is similar to that of the Metroidvania game. And when it comes to cerebral metroidvania, animal wells have quite a brain on their shoulders.
Animal wells are minimal nonlinear metroidvanias that drop you into sinking areas with no specific direction or hints. If you use nothing other than your own wisdom and some platform skills, you need to decide where you need to go and you can take your current abilitiesquickly expand the scope of the world by solving puzzles into the box. Using abilities acquired in unconventional ways, we don’t know what we can achieve.
When it comes to map extent, Blue Prince is clearly a small game. Because the mansion has only 45 possible rooms. However, the variability in the layout of these rooms makes them much more similar to a much larger, but static map of animal wells.
1 mist
Environmental puzzle OG
Remember when you were listing puzzle games a second ago since 1993? Well, there’s something we missed. There is definitely Mist, one of the tents in the entire genre of environmental puzzle games. This vintage game lets people walk and run like the Blue Prince.
The mist is placed on a huge, derelict island where secrets and puzzles are actively scattered. The island’s library has a pair of brothers trapped inside a fascinating book, both of whom are demanding your help. By solving puzzles and recovering pages, you can learn more about what happened to these siblings and the truth about what led them to their current predicament. It’s an observational game of vision. Because it’s not always clear what you have with the dressing set and what you’ll have to mess with.
Mist can be considered a prototype version of the Blue Prince. They share the same emphasis as the environment puzzle, coupled with the story and plot linked to that puzzle, but the Blue Prince adds an extra step in its procedurally generated roguelike mansion.
