Why do we like puzzle video games?!

Some people believe that video games are just a waist of time and there is nothing useful you can learn from them. They are characterizing them as a escape from the reality which makes the people lazy (when it comes to brain and physical activity), determined and not prepared for dealing with the real life. But some experts claim something opposite to that. They indicate the fact that many video games could help benefit problem solving skills. They are giving the accent on the puzzle video games, for example, as a type of games that could help people develop their logic and actuated their thinking, focusing on conceptual challenges. This kind of brain challenge is actually the thing that makes these games so interesting for the public.

The puzzle video games have the puzzle solving in the basis of their concept. Focused on logical and conceptual challenges, the puzzle video games are usually combined with time - pressure or other type of action – elements and solving of this games includes logic, strategy, sequence solving, pattern recognition, and word completion. The task of the player is to manipulate with colours, shapes or symbols, which are involved in the game, into a specific pattern. Often there are series of puzzles that are related and actually are a variation on a single theme. The player is revealing the hidden clues, intending to achieve some of the victory conditions, so he could get the admission to go to the next level which is usually harder than the last one.

Few types of the puzzle video games are based on the same principle. Here could be counted action games, hidden object games, reveal the picture games, physics games and classical type of puzzle games.

Action puzzle

Action puzzle, famous also as an arcade puzzle is a game that requires from the player to manipulate game pieces in a real - time environment and most of the times his task is to solve the puzzle or clear the level on a single screen and with a time limit. It includes falling-block puzzles such as Tetris, games with characters moving through an environment, controlled either directly…

Hidden object games

In this type of puzzle game, which is concept as a largely visual game, the player is asked to find a particular item from a list, in a screen full of objects. In these group are counted the games with finding differences between two nearly identical objects and other similar types of visual puzzles. Recently hidden object games have been evolving to include famous "escape the room" type web games.

Reveal the picture game

It is about piece-by-piece revealing of a photo or picture.

Physics games

In this game the player must use the game's physics to complete each puzzle, and actually this games use realistic physics to make games more challenging.

Traditional puzzles

As a meter of fact this games are digital adaptations of traditional puzzle games, including solitaire and mahjong solitaire.

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