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The Case of the Golden Idol

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

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

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

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

A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.

Gameplay:

Not grid-based

Platform:

Web

Windows

Xbox Series X|S

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