Games similar to Sato

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Occlude
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La-Mulana
Put on your adventurer's hat and dive into a dangerous maze of cryptic secrets.
Light of Atlantis
Switch between ancient robots to uncover the secrets of a sunken city.
Animal Well
Explore a dark well inhabited by animals and full of secrets.
La-Mulana 2
Unravel the mysteries of a sprawling, deadly network of underground ruins.
Lessons on Strange Symbols
Use strange archaic symbols to learn a new numbers system and do some basic math.
Atlantis no Puzzle
Recover the fabled treasure of Atlantis, learning the rules of its mysterious items.
Illiteracy
Discover the rules of these 8 mysterious symbols.
The Swapper
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Conjure gravity-defying triangular platforms to explore every corner of the Odd Gods' world.
Thanks, Light.
Give and take light to alter the rooms inside a surreal, menacing brutalist complex.
Cursed Travels: Sunken City
Explore haunted lands filled with mysteries, riddles and puzzles.
The Witness
A beautiful island of maze-like line-drawing puzzles.
Moss Moss
Explore a mossy, cozy world filled with gentle secrets.
Portal
Solve test chambers with a portal gun in this first-person classic.
ElecHead
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The Button Effect
Explore a museum of hidden connections and spatial insights, where every button has a purpose.
Taiji
A tranquil, open-world puzzler filled with grid-shading logic puzzles.
Portal 2
Portal returns with an expansive story, new mechanics, and a co-op mode.
MotionRec
Record your movements and play them back to reach new places.
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Decipher cryptic word puzzles in a strange, non-linear space.
Exographer
Discover science-inspired mechanics and learn the secrets of an extinct civilization.
Polly's Puzzle Box
Discover the abilities of mysterious shapes to navigate the quirky rooms inside a giant parrot.
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Help sentient, rectangular AIs find companionship within a puzzle-platforming mainframe.
Dual Threaded
Decipher the rules to solve this single-image puzzle of lines and boxes.
Fez
Explore the third dimension in this retro-style 2D puzzle platformer.
Lingo 2
Roam an abstract open world of surprising puzzles in a sequel brimming with new mechanics.
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