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Recursed

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

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 boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes within...

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.

Plan a route through bite-sized dungeons and survive tactical combat encounters.

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

Linux

MacOS

PlayStation 5

Web

Windows

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Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

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