Blue Prince
Maybe I'm Just Not That Smart
I put down Blue Prince after 25 hours. There’s a tension between the puzzle half of the game and the rogue-lite half of the game that I found very frustrating. Spending entire sessions not making any meaningful progress wore me down to the point where I just wasn’t having any fun.
I definitely questioned my intelligence several times while playing this game. The idea that I was missing entire layers of more and more complicated puzzles seems baffling to me.
Even now as I’m writing this, I’m itching to get back into the game, telling myself that I’ll take better notes, spend more time noodling on the puzzles, draft better floorplans. But I know it’s a trap.
Maybe I’ll come back to it in a while, when life is a little less busy, and I have more time for slow, contemplative puzzle solving.