Gnog

GNOG serves as a great way to spend an afternoon and one of those rare occurrences where you’ll want that earworm (albeit a relaxed, whimsical one) floating around in your brain.

While a few of the levels feel mechanically underdeveloped or otherwise don’t quite reach their full potential, these lesser puzzles tend to make up for their shortcomings with a strong audio-visual theme or an entertaining premise. And although GNOG is brief enough to be a single-sitting game, that length feels about right, give or take another puzzle or two to really round out the package. Most ...

With a trippy art style reminiscent of the LSD-enhanced art of the 1960's and a unique musical sound, GNOG is a game that doesn't take itself too seriously and encourages you to just play with it, and maybe even solve a puzzle now and then.

A popular toy among discerning infants and toddlers is the activity center. It comes in thousands of iterations, but the basic goal is to give children a series of entertaining and noisy switches and levers. Kids fiddle with them endlessly, engaged just by the ability to interact with something. Gnog, in many ways, feels like the grown-up version of this toy. I don’t mean that to be dismissive; it...

GNOG is a fun puzzle game that really does have some great ideas wrapped up in one of the most entertaining presentations I've seen in a while. I just wish it was longer.

The fact that classic Sega Genesis shoot 'em ups are being ported to modern consoles is great so here's Gynoug (AKA Wings of Wor).

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That said, both the short level times and high comfort could make GNOG a great game to show off VR, particularly if you have friends curious about the headset lurking in the corner, or kids eager to try it out for themselves. It’s not essential, but having the PSVR handy definitely adds to the experience.

As someone who loved the PlayStation port of Lara Croft GO, and was heavily impressed with the new campaign created specifically for that version of the puzzle game, I was excited to see what developer KO_OP could do when left to their own devices. The result is GNOG, a gorgeous looking puzzle game that has players exploring the heads of monsters that hide a tiny world within them. It’s a wonderfu...