Blue Prince has generated an almost irresponsible amount of buzz in the past week thanks to its engaging gameplay loop, and it has quickly become a contender for our indie Game of the Year. If you’d like to see what all the fuss is about, you can currently pick up Blue Prince from Fanatical for its lowest price ever. Just use the promo code POLY8 at checkout to secure a copy of the game on Steam for just $23.40 (was $29.99).
Without spoiling too much, Blue Prince has you building a mansion, room by room, until you’ve run out of resources. Each room can contain a mixture of resources, puzzles to solve, or seemingly unrelated clues to things you haven’t discovered yet. Every room you place inches you closer to your final objective but also contains a tantalizing array of mysteries to solve.
Blue Prince has drawn a lot of immediate comparisons to other eccentric puzzle games like Myst or Lorelei and the Laser Eyes by rewarding judicious note-taking and attention to detail. However, because of its roguelike nature, the way you arrive at specific solutions for certain puzzles can be drastically different from one playthrough to another.
