🧩 Puzzling Places DLC - Behind High Walls
Introducing - our latest Premium puzzle pack: Behind High Walls!
Get ready… to be transported to the 16th century to puzzle four new, epic, fortified locations from across the world! Available today for 6$!
As a “Premium Puzzle Pack”, each puzzle contains quite a lot of goodies including:
- Tiny diorama scenes and easter eggs characters.
- Scene animations (like flags waving).
- Premium audio - custom soundscapes and regional sound effects, which build as you continue to finish each puzzle.
For more information about the Premium Packs, refer to the announcement post.
Puzzling Places - Update v1.10
Following our mid-month major Passthrough update, this month's update v1.10 is a small one.
- Store UI - new DLC packs show up at the top of the list (instead of the bottom).
- Changes under the hood - for better multi-platform support.
Refer to the changelog for the full list of changes.
The following puzzles are included in 'Behind High Walls':
Mar Saba Monastery:
- Location: West Bank
- Scan by: GeoDrones, Israel [1]
- Max. 400 pieces
- Premium Audio [1.1], [1.2]
Founded 483 AD by St. Sabas, a Cappadocian Greek Monk, the Monastery of Mar Saba was built overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Palestinian West Bank.
Considered among the oldest continuously inhabited in the Christian world, it played a significant role in the 15-16th century as a place of solitude and refuge for its inhabitants from the tumultuous events happening in its surroundings in the Ottoman Empire.
The puzzle of the Mar Saba Monastery contains 6 characters, dioramas, and hidden easter eggs. Here’s a couple of hints to get you started: 🐑🐴🚿
Sokol Fortress:
- Location: Dunave, Croatia
- Scan by: Ante Katavić [2]
- Max. 400 pieces
- Premium Audio
Named as the “Falcon City”, the Sokol Fortress was built as a Croatian outpost overlooking the borders of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. Built on a 25m high cliff during the Middle Ages, the fortress provided protection to the region of Konavle.
Although the cliff has likely been in use since Roman times, the Sokol Fortress played an important role to the Republic of Dubrovnik to defend Konavle from its rivals, namely the Vatican Republic as well as the Ottoman Empire.
The puzzle of the Sokol Fortress contains 5 characters, dioramas, and hidden easter eggs. Here’s a couple of hints to get you started: 🦅🚶♂️🦉
Alcázar of Segovia:
- Location: Segovia, Spain
- Scan by: Javier Garcia Lajara [3]
- Max. 400 pieces
- Premium Audio [3.1]
Like many fortifications in Spain, the Alcazar of Segovia was built upon an older Roman fortress during the turn of the 13th century by King Alfonso VIII and his wife, Eleanor of England.
Rising out on a rocky crag above the confluence of two rivers near the Guadarrama mountains, it is one of the most distinctive castle-palaces in Spain. Its structure is a unique combination of Romanesque architecture with Islamic tiling and patterns, common to the Iberian Peninsula.
The puzzle of the Sokol Fortress contains 31 characters, dioramas, and hidden easter eggs. Here’s a couple of hints to get you started: 🎸💂♂️👑🧗♂️
Valdštejn Castle:
- Location: Turnov, Czechia
- Scan by: Krosapp Imagery [4]
- Max. 400 pieces
- Premium Audio [4.1]
Originally built in 1260 by the ancestors of the Valdštejn family, the castle was overtaken by Hussites and “robber barons” in the Hussites Wars who split it into two separate castles.
However, the castle was later abandoned in the late 15th century, only to be revitalized by the Albrecht of Valdštejn, the generalissimo of the Bohemian military who decided to build the estate into a unique pilgrimage site, and later into a touristic location in the 19th century.
The puzzle of the Sokol Fortress contains 7 characters, dioramas, and hidden easter eggs. Here’s a couple of hints to get you started: 👩🤝👩🏼👨🌾🚗🌲
Attribution and Licenses
- [1] The "Mar Saba Monastery" puzzle was created using a photogrammetry scan by GeoDrones, Israel and is licensed under the Standard license.
- [1.1] Gerasimos Papadopoulos & Aura Duet; Album : Tribute to Petros Peloponnesios; Track: Rast taksim on tanbur (extract)
- [1.2] Gerasimos Papadopoulos & Aura Duet; Album : Tribute to Petros Peloponnesios; Track: Hicaz beraber taksim (ney & tanbur) (extract). Album available on Bandcamp
- [2] The "Sokol Fortress" puzzle was created using a photogrammetry scan by Ante Katavić and is licensed under the Standard license.
- [3] The "Alcázar of Segovia" puzzle was created using a photogrammetry scan by Javier Garcia Lajara and is licensed under the Standard license.
- [3.1] Joaquin Rodrigo; Junto Al Generalife for Solo Guitar (extract); guitar: Pierre-Marie Blind
- [4] The "Valdštejn Castle" puzzle was created using a photogrammetry scan by Krosapp Imagery and is licensed under the Standard license.
- [4.1] Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, NBC WEAF Radio Broadcast 1935-12-23, Public Domain