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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

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.

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

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

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

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

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

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Windows

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Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
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The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.
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A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.

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