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The Review Principle
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I review and rate pure puzzle games: https://anokturnus.review/.
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Glowkeeper by @oolimry.bsky.social and @bucketfish.me caught me by surprise, this is the metroidvania + hard puzzles combo I didn't know I needed.

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Glowkeeper – Anokturnus
Whenever I see a puzzle platformer, I always have my doubts. When the adventure side takes too much space, many of these games end up being uninteresting puzzle-wise. You can see from my ratings that ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Sokoban meets chemistry in Sokobond, the first Draknek & Friends puzzle game.
The atoms need your help, find a way to correctly bond them together to create those molecules in this well crafted and accessible Sokoban game.

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Sokobond – Anokturnus
Sokobond is the first game published by Draknek & Friends, and one of the two games from them I hadn’t played yet (the other one being Sokobond Express). As it is their first game, and judging by its ...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Sokoban: The RPG deceives you with both its title and cheap appearance, this game only has some very slight RPG elements and is definitely NOT a cheap puzzle game.

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Sokoban: The RPG – Anokturnus
Sokoban: The RPG was supposed to be a troll birthday gift from a friend who thought this cheap-looking and weird genre mix would be very questionable.Well, this is still partially true but Sokoban: Th...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A smaller review about a smaller game! Knight Swap is a relaxing puzzle game in which you simply have to rearrange knight pieces that act like in chess.

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Knight Swap – Anokturnus
Knight Swap is a minimalist puzzle game in which you only control knight pieces. They move just like in chess, following an L path, and the goal is to rearrange and put them in the correct spots. Ther...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Climb to the top and show them who's the worst.
Dark humour meets clever puzzles in Rats in a Cage, a corporate satire in which you manipulate your uninteresting colleagues through a series of timing-based puzzles.

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Rats in a Cage – Anokturnus
Rats in a Cage puts you in the shoes of the ultimate corporate rat. An AI is tasked to test your ingenuity and morality through a series of puzzles. Though it tries to demoralize you, it will soon rea...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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5€, seems like an easy and small game... Well, that's the opposite. Grow and shrink using portals in ScaleBox, a mind-bending and very challenging sokoban focusing on precision.

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ScaleBox – Anokturnus
ScaleBox may look like an easy and small game at first glance, but oh was I wrong. Do you like hard sokobans? Thinking with portals?The concept of ScaleBox is pretty simple, you and the boxes you push...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Explore a mysterious open world in Mistified. Guide animals thanks to your mist lantern and eradicate the dark claws that stole your precious spices.

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Mistified – Anokturnus
Have you ever tried cooking without spices? Yeah not the best, and our crow protagonist just lost theirs, stolen by the dark claws. Needless to say that’s unacceptable, and thus the journey to extermi...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM