Brief New Yorker article about JB and the game

Played for another 1.5 hours, up to 71 puzzles completed

Just got to the endgame, # of hours/# of puzzles to get there in the spoiler (although you certainly could do it with more or fewer puzzles than I did if you wanted):



What a ride. The final puzzles of the game are challenging, fresh, and fantastic. Awesome game. Have to take a break for tonight but I imagine soon I'll be back trying to finish everything else I left behind...

(and contrary to what weevil and potentially others thought - the end of the game doesn't permanently end your game, I had my saves backed up in case it did but that wasn't necessary)

Anyone know how many puzzles there actually are? Currently at 501, +13 and obviously loads more real world ones to find but struggling with finding more panel puzzles. Know where two more are but then i'm running out of ideas :/

Goofy -

Just put in an epic 10 hour session. I think I'm going to be tracing mazes in my dreams tonight. Still an awesome game 18 hours in. I'm at 303 puzzles and currently in the treehouse zone. So far I think all the puzzle mechanics are great except the audio ones. Holy **** my pitch deafness combined with waiting 10 seconds between each playback is tilting as all hell. Took a break from them and will return to them later, but if I still have trouble I think I'm just going to look up the answer or bruteforce it.

Think there's around . Wouldn't surprise me if there's some really hard ones to find JB is known for that.

Heh, first two nights i put in 10 hour sessions and only forced myself to stop because of work. There have been several puzzles i've been truly confused on and left and had to come back to multiple times with a fresh perspective at solving them - its been a stupidly hard but really fun journey.

I finally risked it and googled it trying to avoid spoilers - seems that is the furthest anyone has gotten yet so i've got loads to still find and god knows where my missing panels are :s I know where ~10 are (since i've left them cause I haven't worked them out yet!), but the last few I have no clue

Really amazing game, I love how it is structured. My favorite moments are when a puzzle looks like total bull**** and after you come back to it later it makes perfect sense.

It cost me way too much sleep (very hard to stop playing once you started) but I got to the end. It took me (hours, puzzles):

Screenshots and MSPaint were A LOT of help.

I read stuff about the game after finishing it (avoided spoilers before) and was surprised that a certain type of puzzles existed. I got to the end without visiting their area at all:

I wonder if there is some sort of story that you can put together. I found two recordings (didnt realize they existed for most of the game) and they were only abstract musings.

You've still got a fair bit to go. There are lasers that you can activate, and (potential nature-of-how-game-ends spoiler) Then you've also got (non-obvious-type-of-puzzle spoiler) and (potential nature-of-how-game-ends spoiler) . Def don't stop yet, so much more cool stuff to find/solve!

I quickly skimmed this article. It's pretty crazy to read that he budgeted $800,000 for the game and it ended up costing nearly $6 million.

**** this buddha temple thing man

I'm at 138

Quick Desert question about the laser

cruised through the first 2 trophies/lasers

having an embarrassingly difficult time with the tetris puzzles. on one now that doesn't even seem possible.

I added a bunch of spoiler tags to recent-ish posts. I imagine that this is a type of game, due to its genre and high initial price point, that a lot of people are only going to start playing a year+ from now, and I think it would be cool if this thread is still something they can read through when they do without too much of the nature of the game being revealed. I admit I'm being a huge nit (and this isn't a rule, just a guideline) but I think this game is probably best experienced with a clean slate, and going in knowing certain things might cause someone's experience of this beautiful game to not be as good as it could have been. As an example, anyone who has a +X in their save game description can click this:



I was chatting with weevil over Steam while we were playing and we had this exchange (and I'm a bit farther in game progression than he is):

weevil: how many [redacted] have you unlocked
goofyballer: [redacted]? i'm not sure i know what you're talking about
weevil: woops, sorry

I don't blame you or anything so sorry for putting you on the hot seat, but I think it's an illustrative example of how easy it can be to let some of the game's secrets accidentally slip. So, let's all try to be careful - make liberal use of spoiler tags, and if you aren't directly replying to someone's question then try to put a non-spoilery description of what the spoiler applies to beforehand. Like, as an example, a post in a Harry Potter thread that reads like

will not go well for people who haven't seen that but clicked anyway because there's no warning about what exactly was being spoiled. That would go a lot better if you put "(Half-Blood Prince spoiler)" before it (I had to google which book that's in, lol).

Sorry if this seems heavy handed, and again it's just a suggestion and I'm not going to hand out bans or anything, just want to make sure this thread helps everyone who plays it enjoy the game to its fullest possible extent.

good idea goofy

Your first spoiler goofy, yes!

looool well after 45mins finally figured out what i was doing wrong in the swap/tetris zone.

Haha, that's a tricky one. I saw someone tweet your picture at Jonathan Blow asking if there were solutions to puzzles that the game didn't recognize (he said no, that's an incorrect solution). Then weevil sent me a screenshot of that puzzle basically asking the same thing.

Endgame spoiler, don't really even recommend clicking on this if you aren't TE:

Continuing above spoiler

Good call on the spoilers imo. Game is great!

Welp just logged off to catch a few hours of shut eye before work... 430 came way too quick

I wanna say 113 puzzles in 3ish hours? I had way too much trouble with a few lol... Sick game

Only one trophy so far

for spoiler tags

I played some more and found more to do. Based on TwistedEcho's post I have all the lasers but a lot of other things to find.

My top 5 of the most frustrating (and also most satisfying when you solve them) parts on the way to get all the lasers:

Re: jungle puzzles



Unrelated: heading to bed now at 2:30, and while my sleep schedule has never been as rigorous as this guy's (Super Meat Boy creator) I can very much empathize with his struggle: