With tablets and smartphones having opened the door to more casual gamers the puzzle genre has been in a terrific renaissance as a whole. The lone wolf developer behind The Eyes of Ara didn’t shoot for simply making a quick time-waster though, he seems to have set his sights on a much more ambitious target for inspiration… the PC classic Myst. While The Room series has tackled blending great visuals with intricate puzzles, the generally confined spaces it occupies doesn’t lend itself to as much variety as you get when you’re able to explore and move through a number of environments. Ara provides this diversity, mixing together some hidden object style elements, trial and error, experimenting with the environment, and working with a variety of items to keep you on your toes. This can, however, make the experience feel a bit uneven at times as well as inevitably there’ll be puzzles you enjoy more than others, and without a hint system there can be some frustrations and perplexing leaps of faith. Still, it makes for an engaging challenge and stands apart from pretty well anything else on Switch. One important note is that though there’s support for playing this docked it uses the pointer controls which, as always, are simply awful and frustrating due to the constant need to recalibrate. If you’re not planning to play this mostly in handheld mode you’ve been warned.