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The Case of the Golden Idol

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

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

A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.

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

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

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

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

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

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

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

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Not grid-based

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Balatro
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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.
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A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.
Portal
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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.
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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