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ABI-DOS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

Deliver batteries to your robot pals without snagging your power cable on spiky enemies.

A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

Linux

Windows

Xbox Series X|S

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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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