Tiny Brains

Tiny Brains for PS4 offers co-op puzzle solving fun that will have you and your friends thinking and working together, often in quite funny ways. If you love co-op puzzle games like Portal 2 or Overcooked, there's a charming and exciting adventure that requires cooperation and clever problem solving.

Play as four disparate lab animals, each with unique superpowers; escape the vile experiments of an evil scientist. Each of your four characters—Dax the mouse, Stew the rabbit, Pad the hamster and Minsc the bat—possess different abilities that you will need to uses simultaneously if you want any chance in solving some of these diabolical puzzles, much like how all 3 character classes complement each other in Trine 2.

Physics based puzzles will require teamwork from players to utilize each character's individual skills. The ice blocks can be used for level design, teleporting physics objects, force fields, and pushing items around each stage to form creative solutions that require teamwork. As well as devastating enemies with dual-wielding act, the cooperative gameplay elements are somewhat akin to those featured in Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

Journey across beautifully designed interactive levels filled with all manner of quirky flora, fauna and climatological effects. I find the game to look nothing but endearing, and this plays into the overall appeal and fun of it as a whole. Particularly with its colorful and playful aesthetic - it's like you're in one of the whimsical, delightful worlds from LittleBigPlanet.

Take on friends and local multiplayer games. Round up your friends on the sofa or head online to tackle some of the hardest puzzles around. From a multiplayer perspective, the cooperative nature of Overcooked and its various types of multiplayer options guarantee that every game session is fun and socially rewarding akin to the chaotic couch fun found in Rayman Legends.

Learn a few of the many extra game modes available to play, increasing replayability and variation. Game modes like Tiny Trolls allow you to battle your friends in fun mini-games and tackling the more challenging puzzles in Tiny Challenges will put your expertise to the test. With a blend of both competitive and cooperative gameplay, all these modes help to expand the overall experience akin to what can be found in Mario Party.

Experience unique game modes and extrainclude custom play modes and unlockable items! Scale the difficulty to the skill of your party, and unlock new moves and upgrades to use as you make your way through. The customization and progression provide a depth that makes the gameplay slightly more interesting, similar to the game-play focus of "The Escapists 2" where each level brings new challenges.

If you're of a cooperative puzzle mindset, and enjoy charm in your adventures, PS4's "Tiny Brains" is one to play. It has a wonderful, satisfying mix of imaginative gameplay concepts being discovered, shared and built around by strangers all in a cute, vibrant world and I cannot believe its familiarity doesn't have you jumping on board already. Play with your friends and outsmart the laboratory in this captivating puzzle adventure!