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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind

Plan a route through bite-sized dungeons and survive tactical combat encounters.

From video essayist GMTK, a puzzle platformer about a robot and his magnet friend escaping a factory.

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.

Strategically plant trees to create regions of similar shape and color.

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

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

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

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

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

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The Operator
Assist intelligence field agents by finding clues, connecting evidence, and perhaps, uncovering a deeper truth.
How to Say Goodbye
A picture book-inspired puzzle game about guiding ghosts through a shifting liminal space.
Temple of Snek
Munch on treasure hunters and keep growing in this rhythmic snake puzzler.
Cracks Where the Light Gets In
Observe a family from limited perspectives to understand why they're here and what they need.
Full Bore
Dig deep into Full Bore Mining Co.'s mines, discovering an open-world of block-pushing puzzles and dark secrets.
Cobalt Core
Outmanoeuvre enemy ships in this lane-based deckbuilder tactics game.
The Signal State
Combine synthesizers and modular signal-processing units to solve puzzles in a post-apocalyptic future.
DROD: The Second Sky
The conclusion to Gunthro's epic, turn-based, hoard-battling adventure.
Infinifactory
Construct furniture and spaceships for your alien overlords in this 3D engineering game.
The Entropy Centre
Rewind objects through time to traverse first-person puzzles and reach the Entropy Centre's core.
Lab Rat
Push, zap, and clamber over obstacles in this satirical, genre-bending puzzler.
The Past Within
A co-op entry in the Rusty Lake series, split between point-and-click puzzles and 3D contraptions.

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