Review: Goodbye! BoxBoy! squares everything away

Qbby, we hardly knew ye. Two years after his exceptionally entertaining debut, our favorite cube is cutting out. Goodbye! BoxBoy! is forcing us to bid you adieu; what a send-off it is! This puzzle game tasks us with traversing levels using all sorts of new mechanics. Far from a pointless endeavor, this game squares everything away quite tidily, giving us a wonderful adventure that never leaves us feeling boxed in.

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The best puzzle games of 2015

In the world of puzzle games, 2015 was an especially thinking-heavy year. It always is, I suppose! But this year, it wasn’t counter-balanced by a desire for speed or complicated by physics or other traversal challenges. It was, as it happens, a pure year for the genre. And one dominated by Nintendo.

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