- Publisher: Behaviour Interactive
- Release Date: Feb 13, 2024
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Feb 20, 2024Islands of Insights soars when you’re sprinting and gliding through its sense world, solving different kinds of puzzles every few minutes. But since there’s no truly co-operative puzzles, the game’s online requirement is poised to perplex players.
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Feb 20, 2024Still, despite a number of parts of Islands of Insight not connecting with me fully, what always did was the puzzles themselves. They’re so consistently engaging that I found myself ignoring the parts of the game that I didn’t love so I could keep engaging with them. Islands of Insight is a great game to jump into for ten minutes just to knock a few puzzles out before going about your day or to get lost in for hours as you try to solve every match 3 puzzle you can find.
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Feb 13, 2024Islands of Insight is the modern reinvention the puzzle genre needs.
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Feb 13, 2024I definitely had fun solving a bunch of puzzles, especially ones that involved finding the right visual path through a group of rings, or playing a sort of reverse Minesweeper with black and white squares. Others like hidden objects or hunting for nodes inside a boundary were annoying, but I never felt forced to try them. There’s a lot to like about that idea of zero pressure puzzle-solving. But everything else, like leaping, floating, and gliding around the open world, filling in the skill tree, or deciphering the map and other UI elements, bogged me down. Islands of Insight is a shot at blending together ambitious scale with cozy gaming, and has to try harder than it should to not collapse under its own weight.