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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

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

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

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

Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

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

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

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

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

Gameplay:

Has narrative

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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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