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Prickle

Help DadHog bring his hedgehog children home by sticking together (literally) and rotating through grid-based puzzles.

Strategically plant trees to create regions of similar shape and color.

From video essayist GMTK, a puzzle platformer about a robot and his magnet friend escaping a factory.

Split and merge to rescue your Starpuffs in this simultaneous-movement puzzler.

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

Battle monsters and level up your dicey heroes in this roguelike strategy game.

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

Deliver batteries to your robot pals without snagging your power cable on spiky enemies.

Platform:

Linux

Nintendo Switch

iPad

Genre:

Engineering

Opus Magnum
Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.
shapez
Build factories to construct complex shapes in an infinitely expanding map.
SpaceChem
An open-ended engineering game about building factories to turn raw materials into chemicals.
shapez 2
Build sprawling factories to extract and process geometric shapes.
Beat 'N' Path
Build musical machines for clients in this open-ended puzzler.
MOLEK-SYNTEZ
Program a molecular synthesizer to convert chemicals into pharmacological substances.
Fractal Factory
Build a conveyor belt factory in a mind-bending, fractal space.
Infinifactory
Construct furniture and spaceships for your alien overlords in this 3D engineering game.
Neon Noodles
Cook up a robotic factory to produce food for your ruthless aristocratic overlords.
Linkito
Build machines, defuse bombs, and control robots by wiring up puzzling electronic devices.
Hexahedra
Program box-building machinary to assemble, rotate, and paint the galaxy's most important commodity.
Rogue Voltage
An engineering roguelike where skills are constructed by wiring up machinary.

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