I fell in love with Monument Valley again after I first reviewed it for Android Police in 2014, and whereas it isn’t the sort of title I’ve spent a variety of time with since, it has spawned a love for related forms of video games.

I’ve personally performed every of those video games on my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6. They’re all additionally accessible for Apple gadgets, and you’ll seize all however one on PCs by Steam.

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Timelie

Timelie is a time-traveling puzzle recreation centered round a lady and a cat. You management time like a media participant, adjusting the scrubber on the backside or hitting the rewind and fast-forward buttons.

Every stage of Timelie includes making an attempt to sneak by patrolling robots by maze-like ranges. You velocity time forward to see the place the robots go and research their actions. Then you definately rewind to search out the precise option to proceed, on the proper tempo, and which order to press buttons and open doorways, with out getting noticed. The cat might help function a distraction, luring robots away out of your presence, or it may possibly press buttons to open doorways as effectively.

I am unable to say I do know precisely what is going on on plot-wise, however that is the character of the beast with speechless titles like this. Monument Valley itself feels a little bit of a thriller till its closing moments, and even then, it stays an artwork canvas open to interpretation.

2

Path of Giants

In Path of Giants, you management not one or two characters, however three. Every stage includes fixing puzzles utilizing this crew of explorers who all work collectively to climb a mountain and accumulate treasure.

The explorers are of various colours: one blue, one yellow, and one inexperienced. Puzzles typically include putting every explorer on a button that prompts a part of a stage or utilizing one explorer to assist others attain excessive ledges. The problem is available in determining the precise order of occasions to ensure every explorer makes it to the tip. Nobody could be left behind.

I really like the vibe of this recreation, although I hope you are pleased with chilly and snowy, since that is the ambiance for all ten of the sport’s phases.

Whereas Path of Giants is cross-platform, the sport can also be one in all many you may play with a Google Play Cross subscription in your cellphone.

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3

Assemble With Care

Assemble With Care comes from ustwo, the identical crew behind Monument Valley. Like that earlier title, fixing puzzles in Assemble With Care depends on issues from the precise perspective.

On this case, you play a personality who’s useful with repairs. In every puzzle, you rotate objects round, making an attempt to determine how every is damaged and during which order to insert elements in hopes of fixing issues.

This recreation is narration heavy, and among the puzzles are simple sufficient that you just spend extra time following the story than enjoying the sport. Nevertheless it’s a comfy good time, and I am right here for it.

4

The Enchanted World

In The Enchanted World, you are once more tasked with placing issues again collectively, however this time it isn’t folks’s cherished possessions—it is the very world itself.

You play a fairy who restores life to wilted nature and brings order to the world by shifting items of the atmosphere round till they line up in simply the precise approach. It is like enjoying with a Rubik’s dice that is flat and made up of landscapes. I personally discover this to be probably the most difficult recreation I am recommending, however I’ve by no means been a specific fan of Rubik’s cubes. I simply actually dig this recreation’s appeal.

The Enchanted World is exclusive on this listing as the only real entry that’s solely on cellular platforms. But when you choose a bigger display screen, there’s nonetheless the choice to play it on a pill.

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5

Umiro

Umiro places you accountable for two characters, Huey and Satura, who you could safely navigate to the tip of a puzzle with out touching the shifting obstructions alongside the way in which. The puzzle component, this time, is your lack of ability to maneuver both character immediately. As an alternative, you could draw a path displaying the way you need them to maneuver. In case your timing is correct, the character is ready to execute the trail safely.

Regardless of the visible similarity to Monument Valley, this recreation will give your mind a basically completely different kind of exercise.

6

Aarik and the Ruined Kingdom

If you’d like a recreation whose perspective-based puzzles intently resemble Monument Valley, think about Aarik and the Ruined Kingdom.

Monument Valley, at its core, is an journey, and a part of the wonder is seeing what new setting you may enter subsequent. Aarik and the Ruined Kingdom expands on that feeling of journey. Here’s a world you’re navigating at a a lot slower tempo and with way more dialogue. It skews youthful, however when you actually dig the puzzles in Monument Valley, it will give you extra in a concurrently lovable and grandiose bundle.

Monument Valley has impressed a style of isometric puzzle video games, and I am joyful to see their numbers develop. Whereas some action-oriented mobile games pull off touch controls, puzzle video games do not should strive that arduous. They simply work. I additionally assume these are among the prettiest video games I’ve performed, despite the fact that they do not push you to buy a gaming phone within the slightest.

As quick as Monument Valley is, it retains a particular place in my coronary heart and stays a masterwork of what a recreation could be. Some newer video games which have taken inspiration handle to be simply as endearing.