Indie game Blue Prince becomes the best reviewed game of 2025
Blue Prince, an indie first-person puzzle game, is getting great reviews. You might be wondering what this game is and how to play it. We have the answers.
Today, a new indie game has suddenly become the highest critically reviewed game of 2025 so far. Outdoing the previous top dog, Split Fiction, by one point on both Metacritic and OpenCritic, is Blue Prince, a new game from Dogubomb and publisher Raw Fury. If you haven’t heard of this highly anticipated indie game, you might be wondering how it earned these high scores across the board, and how you can play it yourself.
Blue Prince suddenly becomes the highest reviewed game of 2025 so far
Blue Prince has reportedly been in development for over eight years. Described as an atmospheric, architectural rogue-lite adventure, Blue Prince puts the player in the position of a character who has just inherited a mysterious mansion. The mansion has 45 rooms, each with their own unique puzzle to be solved. As you explore, you choose which rooms to enter next, in a way, constructing the layout of the mansion as you explore it. It appears the ultimate goal is to reach the rumored 46th room.
This is the debut game from Dogubomb, the studio behind this indie puzzle adventure. To find this much critical reception on the first game is already an achievement, but to outscore huge games like Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is monumental. The game’s publisher, Raw Fury, is well known in the indie space. They have previously published great games like the close-quarters tactics Knights in Tight Spaces earlier this year, last year’s pachinko rogue-like hit Ballionaire, and 2023’s deckbuilding creature-collector Moonstone Island.
The title, Blue Prince, is a clever double entendre. On the one hand you are the inheritor of this strange home, but on the other you are also designing the layout, much like an architect would create blueprints of a structure. According to a deep dive featured in the Day of the Devs Game Awards showcase from December, the house is five rooms across, and nine rooms deep. Dogubomb director Tonda Ros says: “the deeper you go, the more you’ll discover. The more you discover, even deeper you’ll go.” The placement of each room adds a layer of strategy to this mysterious first-person puzzle game. With each passing day you’ll learn more about how to approach this mystery and hopefully, get closer to solving it.
Blue Prince will thankfully be available on both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, alongside PC via Steam. But that’s not all. When Blue Prince releases to the public this Thursday, April 10th, it will also be available via each console’s subscription service, Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus. So, there are plenty of ways jump right into this exciting new indie game.
