Play Guides posts from the GameDavinci studio — news, dev logs, and game recommendations.
Some puzzle genres are structurally incapable of being hard — not because the designer went easy on you, but because of the rule that defines them. There is a one-question test that sorts them, we ran it across our whole catalogue, and it explains why a game marked "Expert" can still feel like nothing. Here is which of ours are which.
Most people learn board games in whatever order a relative happened to own them, which is why so many bounce off chess. There is a better order — each game teaching one idea the next one assumes you already have. Six games, six ideas, all playable free against the computer with the rules a click away.
Most game lists ignore the only constraint that actually decides what you open: how long you have. A game you can finish in three minutes is frustrating for an hour, and a game worth an hour is the wrong thing to start on a station platform. Four time budgets, and what makes a game fit each one.
Aeroplane wifi is either expensive or fictional. These games are built as a progressive web app, so adding the site to your home screen before you leave means they keep working with no connection at all. Here is how to do it, which puzzles suit a long flight, and the one thing that does not work offline.
"I'm bored" covers at least four different feelings, and the game that fixes one of them makes another worse. Restless bored wants something fast. Fidgety bored wants something with no lose state. Stuck-waiting bored wants something you can abandon mid-move. Here is which of ours to open for each.
