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The Case of the Golden Idol

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

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

Deliver batteries to your robot pals without snagging your power cable on spiky enemies.

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

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

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

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

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

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iPad

iPhone

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