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Can of Wormholes

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

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

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

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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

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

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

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

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

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

Android

MacOS

PlayStation 5

Windows

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Tunic
What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.
Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
Chants of Sennaar
Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
The Case of the Golden Idol
The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.
The Witness
A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.
Portal
Solve test chambers with a portal gun in this first-person classic.
Fez
Explore the third dimension in this retro-style 2D puzzle platformer.
The Talos Principle
Overcome Elohim's tests in this philosophical first-person puzzler.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
You have been invited to Hotel Letztes Jahr, a strange manor full of lateral puzzles and a dark past.
Myst
A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.
Portal 2
Portal returns with an expansive story, new mechanics, and a co-op mode.

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