The Silent Age was a huge hit on iOS back in 2013, but developer House on Fire updated it with HD graphics for bigger Mac screen this year. You’ll need to flip back and forth between two times to solve these environmental puzzles as well as who done it and how.

It’s 1972, and you’re a janitor who stumbles upon a gateway into the future as well as a murder mystery. Killian Bellĭownload: You Must Build a Boat ($4.99 from Steam) The Silent Age You won’t have played anything like You Must Build a Boast before, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll become hugely addicted to this charming, wonderfully simple, yet incredibly challenging puzzle game. Increasing the size of your boat ensures you can power through the strong currents and make your way through the map. As you progress, your boat will become bigger and you’ll recruit monsters to help with tasks. You’ll take on quests before each level and collect rewards for completing each one. Matching swords and staffs helps you take down enemies, matching keys will open treasure chests, and matching shields makes it harder for enemies to hold you back.

Matching tiles helps guide your character through each level, and knowing which tiles to match at the right time will get you to the end faster. One of the most addictive games I’ve played on Mac (or iOS) this year - and by far the most unique - You Must Build A Boat cleverly fuses a match-three puzzle game with an endless runner for surprisingly spectacular results. Evan Killhamĭownload: Minecraft Story Mode ($24.99 from Steam) You Must Build a Boat It’s hilarious and fun without being precious, which is a pretty big achievement considering all the characters are adorable (and the game is about people stacking blocks). It includes a great cast including comedians Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn, my Goonies crush Martha Plimpton and, somehow, Paul Reubens. And somehow, Telltale has taken that incredibly bare framework and built one of the cutest and most entertaining titles of the year.

I’ve played maybe 20 minutes of Minecraft, the cultural phenomenon that inspired this episodic title from developer Telltale Games, but I get the basic idea: You build things out of blocks so you can explore further into the world and build even better things out of blocks. Download: Tengami ($9.99 from the Mac App Store) Minecraft: Story Mode

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