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Outer Wilds

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

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

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

Explore a world of mystery, color, energy, and movement with knowledge-based progression.

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

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

Turn invisible and eliminate your targets in the margins of a school notebook.

Designed as an introduction to DROD, solve turn-based combat puzzles as Beethro's grandfather, Gunthro.

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

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

Platform:

Nintendo Switch

PlayStation 5

Xbox Series X|S

iPad

Mood:

Fantasy

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam
A ghosty incident in Steam Bison begins a new riddle-filled adventure for our puzzle-solving duo.
Howl
Save the villagers from wolves in this turn-based tactical folktale.
Chants of Sennaar
Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Divise stealthy tactics for your cursed pirate crew in their quest for a mysterious treasure.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Possess objects and solve adventure puzzles to save characters from their doomed fate.
Wildfrost
Battle your way through a frozen tundra, building a deck of companions as you go.
Tunic
What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.
The Sojourn
Use light and shadow to activate bridges and teleporters through first-person puzzles.
Creaks
Descend through the cracks in your walls to a world of avian folk and furniture monsters.
Heaven's Vault
Decipher an ancient language to discover the fate of a lost civilization.
Return of the Obra Dinn
A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.
Samorost 3
Play magical flutes through surreal, fantastical worlds filled with adventure puzzles.

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