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VintageGin posted...

These are pretty drastically different. Blue Prince is more akin to a detective game, and the developer's stated intention was to have puzzles that you could work on while not playing the game. Void Stranger is more akin to black box testing, where the input/output seems straightforward at first until you start testing specific cases and breaking things.

I don't see a difference in practice. They both require playing the game to execute your hypothesis or gather data. Like you can deduce a sequence of events that require moving some water with the pump room to unlock something. But the real challenge is actually drawing a pump room and boiler room and connecting them, which requires hours of grind well after you've solved the logic side of the puzzle. Or the paintings puzzle - super easy solution, difficult to draw all 45 rooms (fortunately you don't need to). In fact BP is probably the puzzle game that's least solvable without playing, since it takes hours to physically execute a solution.

With VS you can totally come up with an idea and a route in your head, and then execute it in the game in 15ish minutes. That's what makes it so addictive after the initial playthrough. The puzzles have the same solution every time, so you technically only need to solve them once. It sounds obvious but VS is the only sokoban I've seen take advantage of that to make the game way more than just puzzles.