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Return of the Obra Dinn

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

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

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

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

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

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

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

Platform:

Android

Windows

Xbox Series X|S

Genre:

Rule-discovery

Forgetting
Procedurally generated puzzle panels with procedurally generated rules.
Cipher Zero
Experiment with grid-shading logic puzzles and discover the rules of the cryptic glyphs.
Taiji
A tranquil, open-world puzzler filled with grid-shading logic puzzles.
Lingo
Decipher cryptic word puzzles in a strange, non-linear space.
Insight
Experiment and discover the rules in grid-dividing logic puzzles.
Understand
Discover the rules for these line-drawing puzzles — but the rules change every level.
Seek Etyliv
Minimalist dungeon crawling puzzles on a 3x3 grid.
The Witness
A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.

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