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Outer Wilds

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

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.

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

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

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

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

A difficult sausage-rolling sokoban odyssey.

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

Platform:

Linux

MacOS

PlayStation 5

Xbox Series X|S

Genre:

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.
A=B
A programming game with only one instruction.
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.
Silicon Zeroes
Build complex electronics from simple components at Silicon Valley's first start-up.

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