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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Play a game within a game to escape an old, haunted shack.

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

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

Jigsaws and arithmetic are combined in this cat-powered circuitry-building game.

Plan a route through bite-sized dungeons and survive tactical combat encounters.

Wriggle worms into position in this challenging grid-based puzzler.

What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.

Push boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes within...

Build and optimize complex circuits to fix corrupted files and recover lost images.

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

Platform:

Linux

MacOS

Xbox Series X|S

Genre:

First-person

Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
The Witness
A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.
Portal
Solve test chambers with a portal gun in this first-person classic.
The Talos Principle
Overcome Elohim's tests in this philosophical first-person puzzler.
Myst
A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.
Portal 2
Portal returns with an expansive story, new mechanics, and a co-op mode.
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
A mysterious satellite photo uncovers the solar system's deepest secret in this Outer Wilds DLC.
Antichamber
Explore an abstract, Escher-like space where nothing is as it seems.
Superliminal
A first-person puzzler where size is just a matter of perspective.
The Talos Principle 2
Robots rebuild human civilization in this philosophical first-person puzzler.
Obduction
Explore a broken alien landscape in this first-person adventure from the creators of Myst.
Supraland
A puzzle metroidvania set in a toy, miniature world.

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