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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.

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

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

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

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

Find a path through colors to match a given pattern.

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

A difficult sausage-rolling sokoban odyssey.

Battle monsters and level up your dicey heroes in this roguelike strategy game.

Gameplay:

Has narrative

Platform:

Nintendo Switch

Windows

iPad

Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Play a game within a game to escape an old, haunted shack.
Tunic
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Outer Wilds
Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.
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.

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