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Recursed

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

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

The story of a mysterious artefact told through twelve whodunits.

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

A tricky puzzle game about changing the rules.

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.

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

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

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

Gameplay:

Has narrative

Platform:

Linux

Nintendo Switch

Web

Windows

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