Some, like Assassin's Creed, Grand Theft Auto and Forza Horizon recreate virtual versions of familiar places.

Video games mirror and magnify this built environment in different ways. Our homes, offices, shopping malls, cathedrals, stations, bridges and even public toilets have all been designed. We spend our lives in buildings every day. Most Puzzle video games are, by their nature, Turn Based but they can also be integrated into more pressured and time-limited Action game experiences. In this way, the puzzle can be used to communicate frustration, difficulty or tension as well as offer a sense of control, understanding and ease in or Adventure games. Other video games take this in more conceptual directions, offering puzzles that involve Action, Platforming, Shooting or even Role-Play relationships with other characters. Some puzzle games will focus on a traditional, self-contained, puzzle board with pieces to move. They test many problem-solving skills, logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, spatial recognition, and word completion. The games we specify here focus on a puzzle or conundrum as the main interactive mechanic.

Puzzle video games are a broad genre, as there is something puzzling, or something to solve in most games. In this entry we are looking at Puzzle games. This is designed for people new to gaming, and aims to identify games with the least barriers. In this series, we are learning how different aspects of video games work by playing games that offer an easy introduction to this one concept.

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