"Get a journal, a pen, and buy the game already": Balatro creator says new puzzle roguelike Blue Prince is "already one of the best games I've ever played"

Blue Prince screenshot showing a magnifying glass highlighting text on paper that reads "west wing" next to a photography of a woman
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Indie puzzle roguelike Blue Prince has landed to some astoundingly positive reviews, and you can count Balatro creat🍌or LocalThunk among the many singing its praises.

"Blue Prince is already one of the best games I've ever played and I still feel like I’m scratching the surface," LocalThunk says in a . "Re💜leased today but lucky me I've been playing it all week (perks of the job). Get a jo🧸urnal, a pen, and buy the game already."

that "Blue Prince will get a GOTY nomination at TGA," and given the critical response it's certainly looking likely. Blue Prince's Metacritic score is a whopping 92, making it the top-rated🍒 game of the year ahead of Split Fiction, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Monster Hunter Wilds. Our own glowing four-star 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Blue Prince review is among the game's lower marks.

It's certainly not unheard of for indie titles to secure game of the year nominations at The Game Awards, but the field is typically dominated by AAA affairs. One notable exception came last year, when Balatro itself was up for the big award. LoꦛcalThಌunk has repeatedly chosen to share the GOTY love and shine spotlight on other indie devs, and Blue Pr🔯ince is no exception.

B𝓀lue Prince is a first-person puzzle game about arranging a shifting set of rooms in a mysterious mansion. The game's drawn repeated comparisons to the stone-cold banger Outer Wilds, and it seems much of its depth is waiting to be discovered below the surface. LocalThunk is not alone in recommending you keep a pen and paper at the ready for this one, and it seems that kind of investment is going ꧃to be rewarded with something special.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, the💮n as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights ofꦚ the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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