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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

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

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

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

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

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

Gameplay:

Has narrative

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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Play a game within a game to escape an old, haunted shack.
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.
Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
Chants of Sennaar
Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.
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.
Into the Breach
Pilot your mech squad through puzzly tactical encounters.
Myst
A genre-defining adventure across enigmatic worlds.

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