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

Discover a hidden language in this digital adaptation of the logic puzzle book, LOK.

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

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

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

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

What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.

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

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

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Platform:

Nintendo Switch

PlayStation 5

Windows

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