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Return of the Obra Dinn

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

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

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

Help DadHog bring his hedgehog children home by sticking together (literally) and rotating through grid-based puzzles.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

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

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

A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.

Platform:

Linux

Nintendo Switch

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.
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.
Hexahedra
Program box-building machinary to assemble, rotate, and paint the galaxy's most important commodity.
Craftomation 101
Automate your survival on a frozen planet with visual programming.
Silicon Zeroes
Build complex electronics from simple components at Silicon Valley's first start-up.

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