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Myst

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

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

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

Explore a world of mystery, color, energy, and movement with knowledge-based progression.

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

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

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

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Balatro
Create powerful synergies and absurdly high scores in this poker-inspired roguelike deck-builder.
Sylvie Miniature
Find out how to navigate this miniature low-res world with technical platforming.
Return of the Obra Dinn
A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.
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.

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