2025 is already looking like a stellar year for videogames. So far we’ve had Monster Hunter Wilds, Split Fiction, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Then, throughout the rest of the year, we have Elden Ring Nightreign, and at some point GTA 6. We’ve already had some big successes, too, but now one unassuming puzzle experience has dethroned them all. Blue Prince is suddenly the highest-rated game of the year, and you need to hear about it.
Blue Prince takes you to Mt. Holly. It might look like a normal manor on the outside, but as you step through the threshold, nothing is as it seems. Every door you come to offers you a choice: the room you decide place behind it. Each comes with its own set of challenges and puzzles, but it’s entirely up to you to decide the shape this building takes. In the hunt for the elusive Room 46, anything is possible.
This isn’t where the puzzle game’s challenge stops, though. At the end of each day Mt. Holly’s interior resets, with only the permanent upgrades on your estate blueprints as proof of your progress. This is where Blue Prince makes an unexpected, roguelike turn, because now not only do you need to place and solve spaces to find Room 46, but to also collect all the upgrades you can.
As of writing, Blue Prince is the most well-reviewed game of the year. From 24 critic reviews on PC it sits at a staggering 92 out of 100, placing it higher than Split Fiction, Monster Hnter Wilds, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Avowed. Whether or not Blue Prince can keep hold of that title on Metacritic remains to be seen, but it’s still incredibly impressive.
Developer Dogubomb sets the Blue Prince release date for Thursday April 10. You can find it right here.
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