Each review carries a score for the game and a separate grade for its stop quality. The two disagree often, and the disagreements are the most useful thing on this page.
Fourteen-minute runs with a save between every room and a duration estimate before each one. The best-designed exit in the file, and the game we have recommended most often to people who work early.
Discrete puzzles, instant saves, no chained rewards and no counter climbing anywhere on the screen. Leaving costs nothing at any moment, which is rarer than it sounds.
Deliberately unexciting, mixed to work at very low volume, and without a single music sting. The closest thing in this file to a game designed as a wind-down rather than tolerated as one.
No pursuit, no score, no route that cannot be abandoned at a lay-by with progress intact. The rare case of a game where the absence of pressure is the entire design rather than a gap in it.
A fine deduction game with one hostile detail: progress commits only when a case closes, and a case runs between thirty and ninety minutes with no way to know which in advance.
Forty-wave maps without a mid-map save, an escalating streak bonus that resets on quit, and a between-wave timer that keeps running while the menu is open. The worst exit we have logged.
A game earns a review here by doing something distinctive with its ending — the point at which a session closes. Most games do not, and their figures live in the session logs instead.
