Tech Olive

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

Rather than a racing, shooting, horror, or action game, we offer you a much more casual and laid-back game for you budget approval. Made by the hilarious team at Telltale Games, Nelson Tethers Puzzle Agent is part of their new “Pilot Program” where they make a single “episode” of a new series and, like a TV show, will continue to make it if the sales are good enough.

Puzzle Agent is certainly a specific game for a relatively small demographic of PC gamers. The puzzle/adventure/point-and-click genres are slowly fading away and it’s titles like Puzzle Agent that just might save the genre from extinction. As the head of the FBI’s Department of Puzzle Research, Nelson Tethers must travel to Scoggins Eraser Factory to investigate strange happenings.

So, if you enjoy a good brain-twisting and hilariously-written puzzle game, then head over to Steam and grab yourself a copy for $8.99. As always, if you’re unconvinced of this game’s worth, you can grab the demo and try it first.