Lingo
by Brenton Wildes
Finished: ✓A very not well known game that clotheslined me with how good it is.
It’s a puzzle game based on rule discovery and exploration.
Using context clues, you must figure out the rules of the puzzles you are trying to solve.
As you figure out the rules of the world, you can explore more and more through confusing and impossible geometry.
My experience with the game is that I could not put it down and I was thinking about it during every waking moment away from the game.
The world design being so twisty and dense combined with the fact that any new puzzle you find could be enough to make a rule click in your head means that exploration is very rewarding: there is always a sense that you’re on the cusp of brilliance.
I played quite a bit of the game, but there are still things that I haven’t seen or don’t understand.
One thing that I think is really cool is how easy to pick up this game is. The puzzles are all word and writing based, so it’s very easy to explain to someone and immediately have them thinking about solutions. I booted the game up to show my friends, and they were immediately engaged with trying to solve puzzles that I had trouble with. It’s really fun to bounce ideas off one another in a group.