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The Case of the Golden Idol

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

Designed as an introduction to DROD, solve turn-based combat puzzles as Beethro's grandfather, Gunthro.

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

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

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

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

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

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

Platform:

Linux

Xbox Series X|S

iPad

iPhone

Genre:

First-person

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