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Prickle

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

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

You have been invited to Hotel Letztes Jahr, a strange manor full of lateral puzzles and a dark past.

Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles on strangely-shaped 3D grids.

A grisly detective mystery aboard a ghost, merchant ship.

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

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

Set the stage for stories to come to life.

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

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

Gameplay:

Has narrative

Platform:

Xbox Series X|S

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