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Myst

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

Light up the entire board in this digital rendition of Nikoli's Akari puzzles.

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

Become the serpent deity and fight off a drought by solving puzzles.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

Anything can happen when you have time on your hands.

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

Help Jorge defeat monsters and slay the dragon in this Minesweeper-inspired strategy game.

Explore qubits, superposition, entanglement, and interference in this quantum engineering game.

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

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100% Difficulty:HardMedium

Return of the Obra Dinn
A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.
Chants of Sennaar
Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
Tunic
What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.
The Case of the Golden Idol
The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.
Baba Is You
A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.
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.
A Monster's Expedition
Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

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