TechHive: Blackbar review: Simple, witty, and politically engaged word-based puzzle game for iPhone

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Nov 28th 2013, 13:00, by David Price

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Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK. Visit Macworld UK's blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic.

Disclaimer: The spouse of one of the developers of Blackbar has contributed articles to Macworld U.S.

A politically literate tirade against censorship. An Orwellian adventure story told through one half of an increasingly mangled email exchange. A puzzle game based entirely around decoding blocks of text. None of these things might sound like your idea of a merry time, but Blackbar (iTunes link) is odd like that.

As a downtrodden citizen of a dimly sketched dystopia, you receive a series of messages with parts blacked out by censors, and have to work out what the missing words are. Blackbar is easy at first, but the game takes the idea and runs with it, tangling and weaving its internal logic until your head hurts.

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