[PS4] The Sexy Brutale (2017)

How:
Found while browsing the PSN store.

Pros:
- Stunning graphics
- Nice fitting music (although a bit repetitive at the beginning)
- Some nice puzzles
- Straightforward but refreshing gameplay
- Cool setting, mood and story

Cons:
- Some glitches and unresponsiveness when trying to do things quickly
- A bit too much backtracking
- Annoyingly slow character

[PC] Neighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation (2004)

How:
Got it on GOG together with the first game.
Pros:
- Retains the good things from the previous game
- Adds some difficulty
Cons:
- Same as the previous game

Got all golden statues again!

[PS4] Catherine: Full Body (2019)

How:
Wanted more after finishing the first Catherine, got it on PSN during sales.
Endings:
- I got the Rin true ending.
- I got to Rapunzel stage 22.
Pros:
- Sympathetic and likable characters
- Cool setting and overall style
- A very good challenge with clever puzzles
- Tons of level variations with high replay value, including the new blocks and Remix mode
Cons:
- A bit too silly in the finale

[PC] Journey of a Roach (2013)

How:
Got with a winter sale on GOG.
Pros:
- Nice, simple and relaxing puzzle adventure
- Some good puzzles
Cons:
- Some motion sickness due to the camera movement

A cameo from Harvey!

[PC] Goblins Quest 3 (1993)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga times, got on GOG with a Gobliiins pack.
Pros:
- Some quite challenging puzzles
- Fun and silly fantasy setting
- Quirky graphics, sounds and overall atmosphere
- Nice connection with the previous game
Cons:
- Some weird puzzles promote trial & error attitude
- The story is not easy to follow
- Game-breaking bugs at the chessboard level where you get items in the inventory before actually finding them

An amusing moment in which you play from inside a crystal ball.

Transformed into a werewolf!

[PC] Gobliins 2 - The Prince Buffoon (1992)

How:
Heard of it since Amiga times, got on GOG with a Gobliiins pack.
Pros:
- No more energy bar
- Nice challenging puzzles, with some interplay between the two characters
- Nice graphics and silly humor
Cons:
- Some annoying, illogical puzzles
- Some very annoying control issues

[PC] Gobliiins (1991)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga days, got on a sale on GOG.
Note:
Finished the game with max energy, final password TQNGFVC.
Pros:
- Nice graphics and setting
- Weird humor
- Some tough puzzles with several red herrings
- Good for quick game sessions
Cons:
- Solving puzzles is mostly a matter of trial and error
- Little music and sound effects

[PC] Neighbours from Hell (2003)

How:
Found about it on GOG.
Pros:
- Nice tense puzzle solving; if this was horror-themed, it would be very effective
- The episodic format enables quick game sessions
- Reasonably funny and lighthearted
Cons:
- Once all tricks are found, getting 100% rating boils down to finding out the exact sequence

I got the golden statue in all seasons, but no outro video for me.

[PS3] Catherine (2011)

How:
Heard about it on Adventuregamers, found it on sale at Gamespot.
Endings:
I got the Katherine (Good) ending.
Pros:
- Cool and creepy atmosphere, nice characters, very stylish presentation
- A mixture of gameplay elements (including dating sim)
- The block sliding mechanics allow for unexpected strategies and techniques
- Lots of cutscenes
- Nicely written story and dialogues
- The jukebox in the bar features unlockable songs from the SMT franchise
- Quite some replay value (get gold statues, 2-players mode, Babel, finish the Rapunzel levels)
Cons:
- Very difficult to play when on the hidden side of the blocks. Controls are kind of reversed, and cannot see a thing; would have been nice to have a see-through button.
- Sometimes the music is louder than the voice-over
- The undo button sometimes places you in the wrong position
- In the later levels there are random, unfair events

[PC] Puzzle Agent 2 (2011)

How:
Got with the Humble Weekly Sale: Telltale Games.
Pros:
- Immersive, creepy atmosphere
- The amusing dialogues, funny characters and excellent writing never let the interest down
- The hand-drawn graphics and fitting music contribute to create a unique game experience
- Several scripted sequences bring about a cinematic feel to the game
- Excellent voice acting
- Compelling mystery
Cons:
- Some puzzles are extremely easy, and in general they are quite repetitive
- Too linear, the game basically tells you where to go and what to do

[PC] Portal 2 (2011)

How:
Got it together with the first episode in a Portal bundle sale on Steam.
Pros:
- Excellent gameplay and very well balanced puzzles
- Cool untold story that slowly unfolds, additional details can be grasped by doing more things (e.g. save a turret from incineration)
- Awesome graphics full of nice touches
- Excellent writing, dialogues and voiceovers
- Amazing environments and overall mood
- Great music
- Much more lengthy than the first episode
- All gimmicks (portals, light bridges, propulsion gel, etc.) come with a cool, "musical" sound effect
- The story continues with an awesome, lengthy co-op

Cons:
- I didn't like the colored gels too much, too many puzzles with them
- Some glitches

A hidden portrait of Cave Johnson and Caroline.

[Android] The Lost City (2012)

How:
Read some review on Adventuregamers after explicitly looking for more Android games to play.
Pros:
- Beautiful graphics and very fitting animations
- Nice, well-balanced puzzles
- Fitting music
- Immersive atmosphere
- Nice game for some relaxed, light-hearted adventuring
Cons:
- Music is a bit repetitive, could be much better with a different theme per season
- Underwhelming, almost non-existing finale
- The overlaid text is too much in the way
- Essentially a back-tracking game, can get tedious
- Some mechanical puzzles can be solved before the PC has a way to find the solution, but the game does not accept the solution even if correct (e.g. combinatorial puzzles)

[PC] Portal (2007)

How:
Knew about it since HL2, got on Steam with a daily sale.
Pros:
- Immersive and addictive gameplay
- Amazing atmosphere
- Surprising turn of events near the end
- Excellent voice work and amusing script
- Cool puzzle mechanics
Cons:
- Graphics are a bit monotonous
- Music is a bit lacking

[DS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)

How:
Heard about it on adventuresplanet.it, got it for my girlfriend as soon as she got the console. Then, she heartily recommended it.
Pros:
- Awesome gameplay mixing visual novel storytelling and puzzle solving (especially the "extra" chapter, where you get to examine objects and use Luminol and fingerprint powder)
- Compelling, awesomely written story
- Great FM music
- Amazing characters with very strong features and dialogues
- Puzzles themselves are not difficult, but solving them feels highly rewarding
Cons:
- Too much white flashing during trials
- Must show evidence exactly when the game expects it, cannot forward-think too much
- Some unresponsiveness when doing things quickly
- Typos in the Italian translation
- Some awkward moments (Wright is constantly mocked by anybody for no evident reason, trials often lose focus and some arguments are very shaky) 

[DS] Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2008)

How:
Just the well advertised sequel to a game which I enjoyed in its previous installments.
Pros:
- Nice story, well integrated with the puzzles, gameplay never gets boring
- A lot of cut-scenes
- Nice mini-games
- Very long
- Sheds a new light on Layton's past and Luke, endowing them with a real personality
- Puzzles are well balanced
Cons:
- Sometimes contradictory in a creepy way, all feelings are rationalized in an unsettling manner
- Flora is for some reason frequently forgotten and overlooked, she mostly feels (and is treated) like a pain in the ass
- All revolves around the cardinal and awkward concept of "being a gentleman", spoiling the good moments in the story

[PC] The 7th Guest (1993)

How:
Always heard about it from my junior years, always wondered what kind of game that was. Finally came out on gog.com, bought it right away.
Pros:
- Very nice retro creepy graphics mixing simply textured 3D with FMV
- The main character (Ego) speaks!
- Nice music fitting the creepy atmosphere in a mocking way
- Thankfully it's short
- There is one interesting puzzle
Cons:
- The game mostly consist in moving randomly around the house looking for puzzles
- Movements and gameplay are so f*cking SLOW that solving and looking for puzzles is a pain more than anything else
- Puzzle difficulty is utterly unbalanced, with few original puzzles
- The game flow is continuously and annoyingly interrupted by a mocking Stauf or Ego himself
- Music and voice-over are unbalanced
- The storytelling is broken and confused
- Acting is sub-par

[FC] Dream Master (1992)

How:
Actually found it out myself by randomly clicking my way through the all-roms collection I have, looking for something fun and unusual.

Pros:
- No grinding at all
- A light and immediate hybrid RPG/puzzle/adventure game
- Beautiful illustrations
- There's always something happening
- A replayable RPG for once
Cons:
- A bit too easy
- Sometimes unfair (damned warp tiles)

[DS] Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (2007)

Pros:
- Nice story and final resolution
- Nice minigames and characters
- Nice puzzles overall
- A kind of secluded dark mood permeates the game
Cons:
- The little hamster has a hateful voice (the Italian version is way more cute)
- Some puzzles are unclear, ambiguous or incredibly easy (e.g. the line of trees)
- Difficulty is unbalanced throughout the game
- Is really Flora supposed to be unrecognizable with those glasses? Didn't she leave together with Layton and Luke in the previous game?

[Browser] Tanooky Tracks (2011)

Pros:
- Drawings and music are very pleasant
Cons:
- Way too easy

[PC] Puzzle Agent (2010)

Pro:
- Lo stile grafico è molto ben riuscito
- I puzzle si integrano abbastanza bene nella storia
- Alcuni puzzle sono abbastanza impegnativi
- Ottimo doppiaggio
- Storia avvincente e misteriosa
- Riesce a mettere a disagio rimanendo comunque simpatico e spiritoso
- Ci sono puzzle opzionali
Contro:
- Il sistema di interazione a "sonda" non è granché
- Il journal è vago e non serve praticamente a niente
- Un paio di puzzle non sono chiarissimi
- Il finale è troppo improvviso e il mistero è lasciato inspiegato, ma forse significa che ci sarà un altro episodio...