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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

Play a game within a game to escape an old, haunted shack.

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

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

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

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

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Battle monsters and level up your dicey heroes in this roguelike strategy game.

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

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

Platform:

Nintendo Switch

PlayStation 5

Mood:

Mysterious

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Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
Return of the Obra Dinn
A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.
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.
Fez
Explore the third dimension in this retro-style 2D puzzle platformer.
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.
Can of Wormholes
Wriggle worms into position in this challenging grid-based puzzler.
Animal Well
Explore a dark well inhabited by animals and full of secrets.
Inscryption
An unsettling deckbuilder with puzzles and secrets hiding beneath the surface.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Three centuries after the whodunit mysteries of the Cloudsley family, a relic hunter seeks out an artifact of unimaginable power.
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
A mysterious satellite photo uncovers the solar system's deepest secret in this Outer Wilds DLC.

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