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is anyone making real puzzle games anymore?

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I'd kill for another game like 7th Guest or even something like Shadowgate and it's myriad of clones.

seems like when I look under "puzzle games" for any of the modern systems, all they're making are Bejeweled imitations :thumbsdown: I enjoy a good, casual round of blowing up blocks as the next guy, but in a thousand years I wouldn't describe bejeweled as a puzzle game.
 
They're not the only ones doing it, but Telltale Games is my frontrunner heir apparent to the adventure genre. Their new Sam and Max episodes and, more recently, Monkey Island sequels have been challenging, witty, and brilliant.
 
loki8481 said:
I'd kill for another game like 7th Guest or even something like Shadowgate and it's myriad of clones.

seems like when I look under "puzzle games" for any of the modern systems, all they're making are Bejeweled imitations :thumbsdown: I enjoy a good, casual round of blowing up blocks as the next guy, but in a thousand years I wouldn't describe bejeweled as a puzzle game.
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There are tons of puzzle games. Also, the ones you list as "puzzle" games are more adventure/puzzle than true puzzle.

As another poster method, the rebooted Monkey Island series and Sam & Max series provide adventure/puzzle goodness.

Other adventure puzzle games are Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk, Samorost, Machinarium, Zack and Wiki, Phoenix Wright (to a degree), Braid and probably some other I can think of.

The Penumbra series also boasts large puzzle-solving elements.

For pure puzzle-solving games, there are games like the Professor Layton series and Picross/3D.

There are a lot of puzzle games. They may not be as prevalent as in the LucasArts days, but that is because of the larger variety of games possible with modern technology.
 
If you have a Nintendo DS (Or Sega Dreamcast, the system which it originally came out for), you have to check out Chu-Chu Rocket for Gameboy Advance.
 
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