Puzzle Piecer: The Holiday Spirit

These great single-player puzzle games make for great couch co-op experiences, as you can solve them with a pal.

Although Mina the Hollower doesn't feature a manual save button, you can trigger autosave instead.

Stealing Pinky's ladder in Mina the Hollower involves opening a secret path, but the reward is worth the hassle if you want all the collectibles.

To get to the Queensbury Crypt in Mina the Hollower, you need to solve the puzzle in the Spike Vault. Here's how to lower the spikes.

Here is a game that feels like an adventure. And it feels like it was an adventure to make, too. Mina the Hollower took six years to design and build, six years that took it from what sounds like a kind of coding doodle to a panoramic journey across a richly imagined island, taking in platforming and combat, puzzle-solving, and sheer immersion in the world building. It's Zelda and it's Bloodborne. It's smacking bosses and reading the in-game newspaper. All of which is to say that those six years of design work are apparent throughout, in the complexity of the landscapes you travel, in the dens