20th Century Beauties
20th Century Beauties is a PlayStation 4 puzzle game released in 2025 developed by Somequest. It centers on puzzle, maze, or device solving, card or board-game rules, and successive puzzle solving, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.6 / 10
About this game
20th Century Beauties is a PlayStation 4 puzzle game centered on puzzle, maze, or device solving, card or board-game rules, and successive puzzle solving. Compact stages add conditions and tighter constraints over time, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Graphics, audio, and input feedback need to support decisions directly, while HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that limited explanations, input recognition, repetition, or abrupt difficulty can stall progress. Platform conditions also include HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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AI review
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An approachable portrait puzzler for short breaks, held back by limited variety and an obscure mode entry.
20th Century Beauties builds short sessions around assembling stylized portraits, recognizing shapes and improving completion times. A charged automatic-placement ability softens the increase in piece counts, while three-star results give returning players a small reason to refine their approach. The included selection focuses on the 1930s, offering several pictures without substantially changing the underlying activity. Its appeal rests on the portrait theme rather than inventive puzzle rules or a convincing progression through historical styles. The main usability frustration is Relax mode: it is reached through a portrait in the gallery instead of an obvious main-menu entry. Once found, the game fits an undemanding break, but players seeking intricate puzzles or substantial mechanical variety will soon reach its limits.
Strengths
- Automatic placement eases the learning curve
- Increasing piece counts add modest progression
Weaknesses
- Relax mode is awkward to locate
- The base selection and mechanics offer limited variety
Who it is for: Players who enjoy portrait art, short jigsaw sessions and light completion targets.
Play notes: Covers the free base selection only; other eras are sold separately. Includes suggestive character imagery.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension A selection of portraits and increasing piece counts sustain short sessions, but one included era and a repetitive assembly loop limit variety. | Reviewed | 6.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Assisted assembly is approachable and three-star targets add a modest challenge, though faster recognition supplies more variation than new puzzle mechanics. | Reviewed | 6.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Portrait collecting gives the presentation a coherent hook, but the period framing does not create especially distinctive visual identities. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Automatic placement reduces assembly friction, but hiding Relax mode inside the gallery makes an important option unnecessarily difficult to discover. | Reviewed | 6.5 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Somequest
- Publisher
- Somequest
- Release date
- 2025
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Puzzle · Primary genre
- Tags
- Party-friendlyPick-up and PlayPuzzle SolvingShort SessionsBoard and Tabletop PlayArcade StyleReplayableCollection-richSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 4Worldwide2025
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