Mael Duin 🧩
@maelduinplays.bsky.social
Puzzle videogames Content Creator, Streamer & Steam Curator @Puzzle Lovers. Gameplays, reviews, interviews and more. LIVE on:
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🔴 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin/
🟣 Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/mael_duin
If you make a good game,
(𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴)
they will want to play it!
(𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴)
they will want to play it!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
If you make a good game,
(𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴)
they will want to play it!
(𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴)
they will want to play it!
POSITIVES:
🙂+ art
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- story
😠- hints system
😡- the bug that stopped me
🔶 Find The house of Tesla here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2738230/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
🙂+ art
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- story
😠- hints system
😡- the bug that stopped me
🔶 Find The house of Tesla here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2738230/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
The House of Tesla on Steam
Solve intricate puzzles to activate Nikola Tesla's creations, restore Wardenclyffe Tower, and unlock hidden devices in his New York lab. Explore the Chicago World's Fair in this mind-bending puzzle ad...
store.steampowered.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
POSITIVES:
🙂+ art
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- story
😠- hints system
😡- the bug that stopped me
🔶 Find The house of Tesla here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2738230/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
🙂+ art
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- story
😠- hints system
😡- the bug that stopped me
🔶 Find The house of Tesla here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2738230/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
💠 ThoT is a frustrating experience in general, and a collection of disconnected puzzles at best: from the story to the puzzles, the sound, the UI... I really wonder what happened here. As it's being reworked, I hope the devs can turn it into a fun game, but as it currently is, I do not recommend it.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
💠 ThoT is a frustrating experience in general, and a collection of disconnected puzzles at best: from the story to the puzzles, the sound, the UI... I really wonder what happened here. As it's being reworked, I hope the devs can turn it into a fun game, but as it currently is, I do not recommend it.
🔹 What ThoT does best, though, is transmitting the physicality of the objects that the player interacts with: levers, keys, door compartments... most moving objects require the player to reproduce the move, and it was specially satisfying playing on a touch screen as I did (iPad + Steam Link).
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 What ThoT does best, though, is transmitting the physicality of the objects that the player interacts with: levers, keys, door compartments... most moving objects require the player to reproduce the move, and it was specially satisfying playing on a touch screen as I did (iPad + Steam Link).
🔹 In chapter 6, the puzzles made the least sense in the environment they were. I reached a bug that forbid me from progressing and made the decision to quit very easy. Add irregular texture resolutions, absent sound effects, long puzzle reset animations, abrupt camera flips when changing spots...
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 In chapter 6, the puzzles made the least sense in the environment they were. I reached a bug that forbid me from progressing and made the decision to quit very easy. Add irregular texture resolutions, absent sound effects, long puzzle reset animations, abrupt camera flips when changing spots...
🔹 Around chapter 5 I still wanted to see 'the whole picture' (ending) but I wasn't having a great time, so I started using the hints system. Then it fell apart, too, giving me mostly redundant information, unrelated to the solution: "I know the pieces move horizontal and vertically, you don't say!".
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 Around chapter 5 I still wanted to see 'the whole picture' (ending) but I wasn't having a great time, so I started using the hints system. Then it fell apart, too, giving me mostly redundant information, unrelated to the solution: "I know the pieces move horizontal and vertically, you don't say!".
🔹 On my second playthrough I found the 'hard' puzzles in chapters 1-3 nerfed to the trivial point, resulting in a very guided and on-rails experience. From chapter 4 onwards the spikes came back, with puzzles that I didn't understand even when solved.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 On my second playthrough I found the 'hard' puzzles in chapters 1-3 nerfed to the trivial point, resulting in a very guided and on-rails experience. From chapter 4 onwards the spikes came back, with puzzles that I didn't understand even when solved.
🔹 The puzzles should be in the spotlight, anyway. I started playing on release, and found their difficulty very uneven, with moon-logic ones followed by trivial ones. I left the game in chapter 3, and by the time I came back, I restarted it, to find out that the whole project was being remade.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 The puzzles should be in the spotlight, anyway. I started playing on release, and found their difficulty very uneven, with moon-logic ones followed by trivial ones. I left the game in chapter 3, and by the time I came back, I restarted it, to find out that the whole project was being remade.
🔹 While in the past we embody Tesla himself, reliving some of his memories, mainly revolving around him not finding a suitable investor to fund his projects. It's an untangled plot, with plain, one-sided characters, that has nothing to reveal.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 While in the past we embody Tesla himself, reliving some of his memories, mainly revolving around him not finding a suitable investor to fund his projects. It's an untangled plot, with plain, one-sided characters, that has nothing to reveal.
🔹 The story, told through static 3D scenes (like dioramas) and divided into 6 chapters, is told in two timelines: in the 'present' (it's ~1900) the amnesic MC wakes up in Tesla's workshop, exploring the environments to unlock their memory, having acquired 0 knowledge about themselves by chapter 6.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔹 The story, told through static 3D scenes (like dioramas) and divided into 6 chapters, is told in two timelines: in the 'present' (it's ~1900) the amnesic MC wakes up in Tesla's workshop, exploring the environments to unlock their memory, having acquired 0 knowledge about themselves by chapter 6.
🔷 The house of Tesla (ThoT) is a game in the style of 'The room' games, or its preceding saga, 'The house of DaVinci'. If you don't know those, I'll say that it's a mix of escape room (but swap 'escape' for 'explore') and a point and click adventure, as we also collect and combine objects.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🔷 The house of Tesla (ThoT) is a game in the style of 'The room' games, or its preceding saga, 'The house of DaVinci'. If you don't know those, I'll say that it's a mix of escape room (but swap 'escape' for 'explore') and a point and click adventure, as we also collect and combine objects.
How is the score calculated?
January 8, 2026 at 3:47 AM
How is the score calculated?
POSITIVES:
🙂+
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- music
😠-
😡-
🔶 Find You are the code here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3333330/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
🙂+
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- music
😠-
😡-
🔶 Find You are the code here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3333330/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
Save 30% on You Are The Code on Steam
Programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
store.steampowered.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
POSITIVES:
🙂+
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- music
😠-
😡-
🔶 Find You are the code here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3333330/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
🙂+
😄+
😍+
NEGATIVES:
🙁- music
😠-
😡-
🔶 Find You are the code here 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3333330/...
🔸 and more puzzle games here 👇
www.youtube.com/@Mael_Duin
💠 YATC is a game based on coding that presents a bunch of fun concepts and combination of mechanics, leaving room for more. Specially recommended for those who enjoy logic games, it made it to my top 10 puzzle games of 2025.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
💠 YATC is a game based on coding that presents a bunch of fun concepts and combination of mechanics, leaving room for more. Specially recommended for those who enjoy logic games, it made it to my top 10 puzzle games of 2025.
🔹 My only negative regards the music, which I don’t think it matches the theme, specially the one with the church organ, in general feeling repetitive quite rapidly and distracting at times.
🔹 Visuals are nice (for a text-only game) and I’m glad the narrative is kept on the simple side.
🔹 Visuals are nice (for a text-only game) and I’m glad the narrative is kept on the simple side.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🔹 My only negative regards the music, which I don’t think it matches the theme, specially the one with the church organ, in general feeling repetitive quite rapidly and distracting at times.
🔹 Visuals are nice (for a text-only game) and I’m glad the narrative is kept on the simple side.
🔹 Visuals are nice (for a text-only game) and I’m glad the narrative is kept on the simple side.
🔹 There are plenty of levels (150 plus some meta) that, for good or bad, felt they never exhausted each mechanic, swapping commands and concepts every few levels, leaving room for future updates or community-made ones, since it includes a custom level editor, to make your own or play someone else’s.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🔹 There are plenty of levels (150 plus some meta) that, for good or bad, felt they never exhausted each mechanic, swapping commands and concepts every few levels, leaving room for future updates or community-made ones, since it includes a custom level editor, to make your own or play someone else’s.
🔹 What the player actually does is move up and down between lines of code with pre-written commands, activating them in a specific order so that the outcome matches each level’s goal. While the commands are super easy to understand, their combination makes for challenging and interesting levels.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🔹 What the player actually does is move up and down between lines of code with pre-written commands, activating them in a specific order so that the outcome matches each level’s goal. While the commands are super easy to understand, their combination makes for challenging and interesting levels.
🔷 You are the code (YATC) is a puzzle game that, despite what the title implies, doesn’t require writing or fixing any code. Instead, the topic is used as a theme for the mechanics and backstory, which is about the player being trapped within the ‘YACT-OS’ (operative system), needing to escape.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
🔷 You are the code (YATC) is a puzzle game that, despite what the title implies, doesn’t require writing or fixing any code. Instead, the topic is used as a theme for the mechanics and backstory, which is about the player being trapped within the ‘YACT-OS’ (operative system), needing to escape.
You might as well make a language deciphering game.
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
You might as well make a language deciphering game.
And Gridbusters by Jion Interactive is more in the style of Demon Bluff and Dupery.
GRIDBUSTERS on Steam
A cozy detective puzzle game where every case is a grid you must investigate, every clue is a piece of logic, and every deduction brings you closer to the truth. Solve handcrafted mysteries across sto...
store.steampowered.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
And Gridbusters by Jion Interactive is more in the style of Demon Bluff and Dupery.
Also Feline forensics and the meowseum mystery, by @nobodycrown.com.
Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery on Steam
There's only one detective to unravel this murder turned museum heist... and they're the cat's meow. Interrogate a "colorful" cast of suspects until they cough up hairballs... and the truth....
store.steampowered.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Also Feline forensics and the meowseum mystery, by @nobodycrown.com.