Blue Prince Reviews

Blue Prince is ranked in the 99th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
10 / 10
Apr 17, 2025

Blue Prince is a genius roguelike puzzle game full of exciting mysteries to solve and rewarding challenges to overcome.

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Tom Marks
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Apr 7, 2025

Blue Prince's ever-shifting halls and rich web of enticing mysteries easily secure its place as an all-time puzzle great.

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5 / 5
Apr 7, 2025

I wanted more strange possibilities from the spaces I lived around. With Blue Prince I get that. What an extraordinary game this is.

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92 / 100
Apr 7, 2025

So grab a pen and paper. Lower the lights. Sit back, relax, and take your time. Draft your rooms, count your steps, and let the mysteries of the mansion slowly unfold to reveal one of the best puzzle games in years.

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TheGamer
Top Critic
Apr 7, 2025

It will delight you, thrill you, and probably make you run crying to the internet for answers you can’t seem to tease out on your own. I’ve never played anything like it, but I won’t be surprised if we see more takes on the roguelike puzzler in the future because of it.

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Apr 7, 2025

"I'm still finding more that intrigues me as I continue to place rooms and expand my blueprints."

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9.5 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

Blue Prince is everything I want in an indie game: a unique, creative idea brought to life with expert execution. Its combination of roguelikes and puzzle games feels effortless, with each aspect boosting my enjoyment of the other.

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GameSpot
Top Critic
9 / 10
Apr 7, 2025

Blue Prince is a masterfully intricate roguelike puzzle game that reveals increasingly elaborate details and interlocking systems as you peel back its layers.

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Unscored
Apr 7, 2025

A superbly mazy mystery, as atmospheric as Gone Home and as intricate as Outer Wilds.

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Apr 7, 2025

Blue Prince is the kind of engrossing puzzle game that will change your brain chemistry.

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9 / 10
Apr 7, 2025

Blue Prince is an excellent, intricate, and intriguing puzzle game that will have you thinking about solutions even when not playing it. While there's some minor foibles, coming across a puzzle and scrolling through your notes for an answer from previous runs is very satisfying. Blue Prince is one of the best puzzle game available.

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9 / 10
Apr 7, 2025

Despite that and an ambient soundtrack that can feel dull, Blue Prince's formula and its abundance of secrets are undeniably engaging. Even if it takes over 100 days to get to the fortune in the 46th room, this is a game that will have players feeling rich regardless.

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Apr 11, 2025

Thoughtful design details and puzzles will keep you returning to an atmospherically uninhabited family mansion to search for a hidden room and family secrets

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9 / 10.0
Apr 23, 2025

Blue Prince is an exquisitely designed game that stays in your brain between play sessions. It is the video game equivalent of a Rubix Cube where every move you make can shape your path to success. Do not let this gem pass you by.

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95 / 100
Apr 20, 2025

Blue Prince is an exceptional puzzle game, and one that we didn’t necessarily ask for in its roguelike form. While the game provides you with a clear objective at the start, it quickly becomes apparent that there is a lot more than one final objective to keep you coming back to Blue Prince, even after finding the 46th room. Once in a while, a game comes along and changes the gaming landscape for the foreseeable future. With the arrival of Blue Prince, I expect to see more games coming in a similar mold over the next few years. While some will hit and some will miss, I doubt many will have the same lasting impact as Blue Prince.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
7 / 10
Apr 18, 2025

Blue Prince is quite an interesting game that brings innovations to a stagnant genre, but at the same time suffers from a whole set of shortcomings.

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7 / 10
Apr 10, 2025

So dense with puzzles, secrets, and lore is Blue Prince that it rarely leaves you empty-handed, even if it can feel that way sometimes. Again, if you have the drive to see the game through on its terms, you'll be handsomely rewarded, but the journey getting to that point may be too inconsistent for some.

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Apr 7, 2025

Blue Prince is a special game full of mysteries, secrets and mind-blowing moments with an addictive gameplay loop. It's so good that labelling this as one of the best puzzle games of all time feels like a disservice. Instead, it's possibly the most memorable experience I've ever had playing a game and I can't stop thinking about it.

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PCGamesN
Top Critic
9 / 10
Apr 9, 2025

Wildly inventive, tantalisingly mysterious, and ethereally beautiful, Blue Prince is easily one of the best puzzle games I've ever played.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 16, 2025

A procedural puzzle game, roguelite in nature, reinvented starting from the mechanics of board games and transformed into a videogame with an exciting exploratory factor, which invites you to take pen and paper to always have the clues needed to solve the puzzles. The challenges posed on the chessboard of the mansion of Mt. Holly are revealed naturally, allowing you to admire not only the extreme variety and elegance of the puzzles, many of which are directly connected to the game structure itself, but also an incredible quantity, at times disturbing, just like a full-bodied narration that is not afraid to transcend the limits of reality.

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