Puzzling Company Podcast

Puzzling Company Podcast

Welcome to your home for at home puzzles and mysteries! On this podcast, our team (Jared, Zach, Hunter, and Matthew) meets up every 10 days to give you detailed reviews and discussions of all kinds of puzzle, mystery, and escape room style games. We talk about all there is to know going into a product, and we dissect core mechanics involved in these games and how they are applied throughout the greater world of gaming. Wanna hear more about these games? Join our Spoiler Club on Patreon to hear a more personal version of our experiences, as well as gaining access to exclusive interviews and other bonus content on the way. Interested in having a certain product reviewed? Contact us @puzzlingcompany on social media, and we'll be happy to get back to you. We look forward to having you as part of the company!

Episodes

July 4, 2023 • 19 mins
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! In this episode, Hunter and Matthew fend off eldritch creatures on their journey along the Road to Innsmouth. Through the power of Telescape and the world of Arkham Horror, The Road to Innsmouth is a thrilling point-and-click puzzle adventure presented by Hourglass Escapes in which you take on the hefty objective of surviving the impending threat of Lovecraftian aberrations in an...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! In this episode, Jared and Zach preserve and protect planets through the power of music. A fresh one puzzle-style release from Floppy Club--available on PC, Mac, mobile, and Nintendo Switch--Rytmos is a simplistic approach to the node connection style of game, where you have to find the perfect path between two objects. Within the game, you venture through a subtle narrative coup...
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February 22, 2023 • 38 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! In this episode, Zach, Hunter, and Matthew dig into Mibo's virtual escape room: Marvin's Island. The first out of the pair of Marvin's Games provided by Mibo and created by the team at Sherlocked, this web browser experience is built to bring your team together against the humorously malevolent and dangerously sarcastic A.I. "Marvin," who aims to trap you on his island and execut...
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February 5, 2023 • 47 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! In this episode, Jared, Hunter, and Matthew talk about Escape the Room: Murder in the Mafia. The next game to come from ThinkFun and Blue Matter Games, this third installment to the Escape the Room series is charming, vibrant, and full of drama and intrigue. Once unfolded, the detective's office came to life, though unfortunately, we couldn't say the same for the Chicago mob enfo...
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Welcome back to Puzzling Company! In this episode, Zach and Hunter are here to tell you all about the excellent experiences to be encountered within the acclaimed (and spooky!) indie puzzle game The Past Within. This puzzling co-op thriller is the first of its kind to be released from Rusty Lake, and we were immediately reeled into the exhilarating timeline jumping adventure. In order to play, you must have one player on a device t...
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Welcome back to Puzzling Company! In this episode, led by Jared and Matthew, we explored the haunted hallways and peculiar parlors of Fogmoor Manor the main setting of The Shivers, a new tabletop role-playing puzzling game sensation. The Shivers is a pop-up book style mystery game where one of your own runs the story, and the other(s) explore the pages of a wide array of compelling narratives and mysterious scenarios. You can take ...
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Welcome all to Year 3 of Puzzling Company! In this episode, we cracked open quite the competition: a holiday special from The Great Gotham Challenge. The GGC is an action-packed live puzzle hunt shipped right to your door. In our case, each of the puzzles and collectibles were largely centered around wintry holiday themes, although future competitions' themes will vary. We'll unpack all that we had the pleasure of puzzling with thr...
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December 31, 2022 • 44 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This is the last episode of Season 2/Year 2 of the show. In this episode, we do a wrap up of the year and talking about the things we played but also what we learned this year. Jared and Zach give their perspective on the whole year as a whole in the industry and they discuss what is coming in the future for Puzzling Company! Listen in if you want to know what Year 3 will be like...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is a special one. We received a personalized box from Odes Unboxed. This experience is not like any other we have played. We received a box about our relationship and some other very cool personal things. This was one of the most emotional games we have ever played because it was made for us and about us. Jared and Zach have a lot to say about this experience....
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December 19, 2022 • 49 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on The Magical Tale from Enigma Fellowship. In this experience, you will be reading through a story book following the tale of a dragon and his missing tail. Throughout the book, you will need to solve puzzles and other tasks to help the dragon find his tale. Jared and Zach had a great time getting to work through the book and enjoying the tale within it. O...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on Adrift from PostCurious! In this somewhat spiritual prequel to the new PostCurious game, you must solve puzzles through art and dream interpretation to discover a mysterious and ethereal world. Jared and Zach really enjoyed getting to play through another PostCurious game and are excited to see the next one in the series. On the show, we had the amazing ...
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November 3, 2022 • 53 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on Lost In The Shuffle from Kickstarter. In Lost In The Shuffle, you must solve 52 puzzles and a 53rd puzzle to complete the deck of cards and learn more about the narrative. This game was a real blast for Jared and Zach! On the show, we had the amazing creator himself, Spencer Beebe, to discuss Lost in The Shuffle but also the future of his other projects....
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October 18, 2022 • 58 mins
Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on Hallows Hill from Wolf Escape Games. In Hallows Hill you must work together to discover the dark secrets of Hallows Hill! Jared and Zach had a blast getting to through this scary haunted house online escape room experience. On the show, we had the amazing creators from Wolf Escape Games on to discuss the creation of Hallows Hill and the future of their c...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on The Professor of the Occult and The Box from the Future from Puzzled Escape Games! In these experiences, you must use digital and physical elements to help save the future with The Box of the future, and for The Professor of the Occult it is a pure digital game. Jared and Zach worked on these together and had a good time trying to solve the mysteries of ...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is about On Circus Grounds from Studio Stamp! In this experience you will receive a cold case file about a particular event at a circus! Using your detective skills you must answer some questions and some this case for good. Jared and Zach had a blast getting to go through the experience and find out the truth. On the show, we had the creators on from Studio S...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on The Cinderella Murders and The Glasshouse Ghost from Society of Curiosities! In these experiences, Jared and Zach had to work together to complete puzzles and challenges to help solve the case of the Cinderella Murders and the case of The Glasshouse Ghost. We had a blast getting to play these games. On the show, we had the creators back on again to discu...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company. This week's episode will be on Ruff Bluff: A Furlock Holmes Mystery. In this experience you must use detective skills to help solve the case and help make connections between information you have gathered with different suspects. This game also has a really fun time with the dog puns, so if you enjoy dogs or animals in general you are gonna have a pawwfect time! Jared and Zach ha...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on Solve Our Shirts from CU Adventures! In this experience, you are given a well designed T-Shirt and some small packages to go with it. You must use the online element with the shirt and packages to unlock and solve mysteries hidden all throughout and in the shirt! Jared and Zach had an awesome time getting to play through both Escape The Maze of The Minot...
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Welcome back to another episode of Puzzling Company! This week's episode is on We Were Here Forever from Total Mayhem Games! In this game you must work together with your partner to solve puzzles cooperatively from different points of views. This game was the latest in the series and was a blast to play. Jared and Zach had a blast playing through this game. Unfortunately do to some time issues we were not able to get the creators o...
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