Newsletter 72

Happy Lunar New Year to all our friends who follow the lunisolar calendar!

In the Chinese Zodiac system, this year is marked as The Year of the Snake, known to be a period of transformation and change. Basically, it’s time for you to shed something and grow past it.

And with our help, we’ll give you a game that will help you ssshake away boredom! This snake game isn’t your typical slithering experience where you eat things on the screen, as it plays more like a Sokoban puzzle mixed with Unblock Me.

Five game insights we think will pique your interest!

Want to play a more modern iteration of your classic Minesweeper game? Well, here’s the game you’ve been looking for! It’s everything you remember Minesweeper to be, just with a modern coat and a few tweaks that enhance the overall experience. Funnily, we also have an interview with the global minesweeper community’s undisputed curator.

Remember 2048? Remember that tower stacking game? What happens if you mix those two games into one? Pure organized chaos. Introducing 2048 TOWER, a puzzle game that is both casual and challenging at the same time. It even has great tunes to vibe with while you wrack your head!

Need a break from puzzles but still want to give your mind that zap of energy? Worry not, we got you. Bemuse is a music rhythm game, and for other generations, that means something like Dance Dance Revolution. Modern, highly customizable and full of different options to make your ideal rhythm game experience, it’s one of the more well-polished, free-to-play web games out there.

Good clicker web games are hard to find, ones that have a surprising depth and fun twist to them. Frank Lantz’s viral hit Universal Paperclips is one of the most well-known ones, and SPACEPLAN follows in its footsteps in a similarly creative way.

All good things must come to an end, and every end can be the mark of something new. That applies to life, games and everything under the sun. Just like how you can’t play Crosswordle forever and need to start anew with something fresh, like Squeezy.

To those who are celebrating a new lunar year, we hope that this quote from Seneca, a Stoic philosopher and statesman from ancient Rome, may help in your day:

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

That’s our last newsletter for January, and we have lots planned for February. Stay tuned for more content by following us on X and LinkedIn!

And if you want to learn more about what we’re up to at Hey, Good Game, you can find out more right here.

That’s all for this month. See you next Friday!

The Hey, Good Game Team