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Forbes
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Blue Prince' Is Obviously GOTY, Possibly Even With A 2025 ‘GTA 6'
Blue Prince Blue Prince Little cozy puzzle games are not exactly my thing these days. I'm a looter shooter person, as many people know. More recently I've been dismembering people in Assassin's Creed Shadows. Before that, mass demon slaughter in Path of Exile 2. Blue Prince? Blue Prince has changed me to my core. I've never played a game like this. When I started, I compared it to a combination of Myst and Gone Home, but mix in roguelike elements and the end result is not comparable to anything really. Outer Wilds maybe? Even then, this feels wholly unique. The basic premise is that you start each day facing a grid of rooms in a mansion. They do different things, costing diamonds or keys to enter, as you attempt to wind the hallways toward a locked, secret 46th room, as if you do, you will inherit the entire mansion from your late uncle. Rolling credits doing this is perhaps 25% of the game. We are talking about puzzles on puzzles on puzzles here. Many of which will unlock permanent upgrades helping your runs, from more steps to use in your day, to more money in your pocket when you first arrive. And after you do hit that final room, things open up even more and after 50 hours I am staring at a whole list of unsolved puzzles and unopened doors as I attempt to piece together the other portion of this game. Blue Prince Blue Prince Every time you solve a complicated puzzle here, the sense of euphoria is more than I've experienced in any game in a long while. I understand why all the reviews that came out about Blue Prince a short while ago mentioned GOTY frequently. Yes, we are a third of the way through the year, but I have trouble imagining anything in the upcoming calendar is going to surpass this except well, you know. The GTA 6 question has not really felt like much of a question. It's going to be the biggest game ever made, and if it does make it out in 2025 as promised, GOTY seems almost inevitable. But I do wonder if the types of critics and industry figures who vote in these shows might look beyond the massive scope of GTA 6 and think about what's more innovative, what's more engaging, what's truly unique in the gaming sphere this year. If GTA 6 is a bigger, better-looking Grand Theft Auto, that may not sway them, at least for the industry's awards. This would be far from the first time a smaller game has upset bigger ones. GTA 6 Rockstar That say, I'm still going to say it's a 95% GTA 6 wins, but for my personally? Even knowing that's coming, it will be hard to top the experience I've had with Blue Prince here. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Forbes
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Here Are All The Answers To Blue Prince's Puzzles
Blue Prince Blue Prince is a surefire GOTY contender for 2025, racking up the highest critic scores of this first third of the year. As such, I thought you might want the answer to every puzzle to blast your way through it. But no, I'm not doing that. Get out of here. No answers for you. While I know there are going to be a dozens of guides out there unlocking the seemingly countless mysteries of the Blue Prince mansion, I would without question advise that you not look at any of them. At least not for a long, long time. If you want to play this game at all, there is really nothing useful about looking up puzzle answers, as that's more or less the entire game. All the answers are found within the mansion itself, as sometimes they will literally be spelled out if you find certain things, or they are solved in your own mind perhaps before even the game gives you many clues. I've described Blue Prince as a combination of Myst and Gone Home, where Myst has its endless array of island puzzles you need to solve, and Gone Home tells the story of a family inside a mystery mansion which…you did not need a guide for. Blue Prince I am not ready to declare Blue Prince GOTY or even Game of the Generation like I've seen some critics rave, but it's stellar. One reason is that solving one of the bigger puzzles in Blue Prince creates a sense of euphoria that is hard to replicate in other games. I seems basic. A door in a cliff finally opens, and it elicited an audible cheer as I sat in my room by myself playing it. As a compromise here, Blue Price can actually be a kind of fun co-op game, but not in the traditional sense. If other friends are playing, you can share a Google Doc or hop in discord to share clues and puzzle them out between you. In my case, I started out doing this, but now we've stuck to small hints rather than the big answers we really do want to solve for ourselves, much less looking up internet guides to figure them out. I mean ultimately, do what you want. I'm not the puzzle cheating police here. But I will say there's little point to play Blue Prince at all if you're not going to try to solve the house by yourself, even if at times it can be extremely frustrating. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
