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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

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

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

Wriggle worms into position in this challenging grid-based puzzler.

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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

Gameplay:

Has narrative

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iPhone

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.
Chants of Sennaar
Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
Return of the Obra Dinn
A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.
The Case of the Golden Idol
The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.
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.
Into the Breach
Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.
Portal 2
Portal returns with an expansive story, new mechanics, and a co-op mode.

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