Rivage review – saving the world, one puzzle at a time

Rivage – saving the world, one puzzle at a time (Raw Fury)

An indie sci-fi puzzle game attempts to offer a more laidback experience, when compared to the season’s more action-orientated blockbusters.

Puzzles have been around for as long as humans have known how to write, it’s just their delivery mechanism that changes. Up until fairly recently that was most likely to be a book or the back pages of a newspaper, the answers to each cryptic clue typically hidden on a different page or written upside down in small letters. Both of those systems are an open invitation to cheat.

In video games, puzzle solutions tend to be locked down, inaccessible to anyone cheekily looking for shortcuts. Naturally, with the arri...