Blue Prince Creator Has Played UFO 50 for Nearly 700 Hours

Tonda Ros, creator of Blue Prince, reveals in a new interview that UFO 50 is easily his favourite game of the last 20 years after nearly 700 hours of play.

What game could possibly keep a developer of one of 2025's most celebrated puzzlers hooked for almost 700 hours? For Tonda Ros, the mind behind Blue Prince, the answer is simple: UFO 50.

In a new interview with PC Gamer's Disk Cleanup feature, Ros didn't hold back on his love for the retro-inspired collection. "I think it's easily my favourite game of the last 20 years," he said. That's a huge statement from someone who spent the best part of a decade crafting Blue Prince, a game that quickly became a modern puzzling classic when it launched last year.

But Ros isn't just a developer—he's a lifelong PC gamer. He got his start at seven years old with the action-adventure classic Beast, and by the time his family had a 386 PC, he was diving into Tank Wars, the original SimCity, and Star Control. That early exposure clearly shaped his taste for inventive, genre-blurring experiences.

These days, Ros is balancing tech support for Blue Prince with experiments on new projects. He's already thinking smaller for his next game, saying logistically it'll have to be a more compact affair. But when he's not working, he's still gaming—and his current rotation is fascinating.

Right now, he's climbing through Cairn by The Game Bakers, a rock-climbing survival adventure he praises for its incredibly intuitive limb-by-limb control scheme. He even compares it to last year's Baby Steps, noting how two games with similar conceptual designs can feel completely different based on slight tweaks in game feel.

Before Cairn, he wrapped up Big Walk with a group of seven friends—a social proximity chat game he'd been waiting years to play. He describes the experience as amazing, with the ending literally shaking him. As a designer, he's usually analyzing games with a critical eye, but Big Walk's final act left him in awe. "There is no way I could have come to a fraction as good of an ending," he admitted.

And the oldest game still installed on his PC? That would be Myst from 1993. Ros says he has Cyan's entire catalogue installed, and Myst will always have a place on his hard drive. He fondly remembers first playing it at a friend's house and being absolutely stunlocked—a moment that changed his gaming life forever.

So, what do you think? Does UFO 50 deserve that kind of devotion, and will you be checking out any of Ros's recommendations? Let us know in the comments!