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Recursed

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

Turn invisible and eliminate your targets in the margins of a school notebook.

Set sail on an adventure through Escher-like perspective puzzles and optical illusions.

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

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

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

Explore a world of mystery, color, energy, and movement with knowledge-based progression.

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Programming

TIS-100
Study the TIS-100 technical manual and write assembly programs for its a highly-parallel CPU architecture.
Star Stuff
Code and work alongside helpful bots to bring power back to their star factory.
Human Resource Machine
Program office workers to solve algorithmic puzzles.
Last Call BBS
Boot up a retro computer and explore a compilation of 8 strange puzzle games.
SHENZHEN I/O
Build circuits and write assembly code in this open-ended programming game.
EXAPUNKS
Read hacking zines and code viruses to infiltrate banks, universities, and even your own body.
Rodocodo: Code Hour
Guide the cat to the finish line in this gentle introduction to programming.
A=B
A programming game with only one instruction.
Silicon Zeroes
Build complex electronics from simple components at Silicon Valley's first start-up.
Craftomation 101
Automate your survival on a frozen planet with visual programming.
Hexahedra
Program box-building machinary to assemble, rotate, and paint the galaxy's most important commodity.

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