Puzzle & Logic

Puzzle games are the category I know best, because they are what my studio builds. A good logic game has three properties: the rules fit in a sentence, every failure is your own fault, and the difficulty climbs because the puzzles get deeper, not because the timer gets shorter. The reviews in this section judge each game against those three things first and everything else second.

You will find classics here (sudoku, klondike, minesweeper, nonograms, chess) alongside newer sliding and merging puzzles. For each one I note how the game handles the details that decide whether you keep playing: undo, hints, whether deals are guaranteed solvable, how it saves progress, and whether the touch controls are precise enough to play on a phone without misclicks.

Most of these are best in five to fifteen minute sittings. A few, like the solitaire collection and the chess client, will happily eat an afternoon.