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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

The rooms are items and the items are rooms in this recursive platformer.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

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

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

Platform:

Nintendo Switch

Windows

iPad

Genre:

First-person

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Play a game within a game to escape an old, haunted shack.
The Button Effect
Explore a museum of hidden connections and spatial insights, where every button has a purpose.
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.
Superliminal
A first-person puzzler where size is just a matter of perspective.
Antichamber
Explore an abstract, Escher-like space where nothing is as it seems.
The Talos Principle 2
Robots rebuild human civilization in this philosophical first-person puzzler.

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