Bonfire Peaks

Bonfire Peaks

September 30, 2021

AdventurePuzzle Nintendo SwitchPCPlayStation 4PlayStation 5

Move onwards, move upwards, and leave nothing behind. Bonfire Peaks is a puzzle game about closure, by Corey Martin and published as well as co-produced by Draknek, creator of A Monster’s Expedition and Cosmic Express. Navigate over 200 expertly designed puzzles in a breathtakingly lovely voxel-based world. Filler content has …

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A.J. Maciejewski Video Chums Sep 2021
81.0 /100

"After enjoying it for hours, Bonfire Peaks is easily one my favourite practical puzzle games of all time. From its distinctly presented world to its unconventional premise and its wealth of tricky puzzles to its variety of mechanics; it has …"

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B McCarthy PSX Extreme Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

85.0

Gameplay

78.0

Story

82.0

"While the puzzling itself racks your brain adequately, if frustratingly, the real pull of Bonfire Peaks is its ability to make you feel personal nostalgia through mementos—the memories that shaped you, both happy and sad. Topping it off with pleasant …"

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Claudio Magistrelli The Games Machine Sep 2021
80.0 /100

"Even if the controls sometimes just make you wanna scream, Bonfire Peaks is a nice and small puzzle game worth playing. Its compact diorama levels are brilliantly engineered, using small spaces to test the player&s;s cleverness. Voxel graphics, more that …"

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Cosmin Vasile Softpedia Sep 2021
75.0 /100

"Bonfire Peaks tries a little too hard to make relatively simple concepts seem deep and meaningful. The narrative of the unknown man is too laconic to be engaging in the long run. The gameplay, while delivering brilliant moments of discovery …"

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John-Paul Jones PlayStation Universe Sep 2021
95.0 /100

Graphics

78.0

Gameplay

88.0

Story

68.0

"A deeply thoughtful, eminently accessible and cleverly crafted bite-sized puzzler, Bonfire Peaks has more subtle emotion, charm and smile-cracking ingenuity than most of the games that have released this year. If you want to hone your logical senses and embolden …"

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85.0 /100

Graphics

78.0

Gameplay

92.0

Story

84.0

"A puzzle game whose quality is matched by its challenge. But Bonfire Peaks also deserves not to remain a niche rarity for fans of these games, its way of introducing the player to its world, its simple and intuitive control, …"

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Justin Nation Nindie Spotlight Sep 2021
71.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

65.0

Story

73.0

"One genre that has been blessed with a wide variety of great titles from indie developers has been puzzlers..."

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Max Fagandini Gamepur Sep 2021
90.0 /100

Graphics

80.0

Gameplay

90.0

Story

80.0

"Burn it. Burn it all! Your belongings, that is. New puzzler Bonfire Peaks sees you navigating dozens of levels to reduce your possessions to ash. Don’t let the eye-catching voxel art deceive you, though: this is one rock-hard game."

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Paula Moore LadiesGamers.com Sep 2021
80.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

70.0

Story

65.0

"Move onwards, move upwards and leave nothing behind in Bonfire Peaks. A game about burning your belonging’s and starting afresh in the process of liberating yourself from your past. Bonfire Peaks is a great game for long or short play …"

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Ruth Cassidy Eurogamer Sep 2021
79.0 /100

Graphics

72.0

Gameplay

81.0

Story

76.0

"An atmospheric world with deep, absorbing puzzles, Bonfire Peaks is thoughtful and charming-but without establishing its tricks, it risks leaving less fluent puzzlers behind."

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Sean Smith God is a Geek Sep 2021
75.0 /100

"Bonfire Peaks has you burning memories in a tricky puzzler that has real heart and soul at its molten core."

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Sophie Hunt Rapid Reviews UK Sep 2021
90.0 /100

Graphics

92.0

Gameplay

94.0

Story

86.0

"Throughout the summer of 2021, I was desperate for the quiet autumn nights. Wrapped up in my newest blanket addition, with a pumpkin spice candle glistening on the mantlepiece, was all a gal could dream of."

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Ted Hazell NintendoWorldReport Sep 2021
70.0 /100

Graphics

70.0

Gameplay

85.0

Story

65.0

"Bonfire Peaks is a stunning game that I feel will attract many for its aesthetic alone. A large portion of those will stay for the gameplay, but I can fully relate to players who become frustrated with the movement controls …"

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Vikki Blake Eurogamer Sep 2021
75.0 /100

Graphics

75.0

Gameplay

75.0

Story

75.0

"Gentle storytelling and challenging puzzles on an island of intrigue."

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