There’s always that one indie game. It appears out of nowhere, whispers its way into the Steam charts, and suddenly everyone’s comparing notes like they just joined a secret society. That brings us to Blue Prince, a stylish, unnerving, and deeply intriguing roguelike puzzle box that seems engineered to hijack brains and scribble on them with a very mysterious pen.

No flashy trailers. No massive marketing budget. Just a cryptic premise, a killer atmosphere, and gameplay that feels like exploring a cursed estate designed by a very bored god of geometry. It dropped without warning and immediately caused an uptick in forum posts, red-string theories, and gamer journals.

A still from Blue Prince | Credits: Dogubomb

The developer? None other than LocalThunk, the same chaos-loving mind behind Balatro, a roguelike deck builder that weaponized poker hands and became a surprise mega-hit. With Blue Prince, LocalThunk isn’t just riding the indie wave,...