Blue Prince
Rating: 4.5/5
Developer: Dogubomb
Publisher: Raw Fury
Platform: PC, XBS, PS5
Price: Rs 1300

Blue Prince has a seemingly generic premise: a wealthy relative has died and left their entire estate to you. However, you must find a way to the 46th room in the mansion. This seems like a doable challenge until you find out that you need to build the mansion as you move through the building, you are assigned three rooms to choose from, and each room has certain traits or significance to solving all the mysteries of the game. You also have a limited number of steps in a day, and most rooms in the estate will require some steps to navigate through them. Once you run out of steps, the game moves on to the next day, where you have to, again, from scratch, build the rooms in the entire mansion.

What is fun, though, is the little clues and the stuff you unlock along the way as you try to find this mythical path through the rooms. The game also requires you to take your own notes, and there are a bunch of side quests and puzzles to solve, other than the main one. It’s a whole lot of confusing bits until they start to make sense, and often that ‘ah-ha’ moment takes a little while and a lot of exploration. When it does happen, though, it can be deeply satisfying.