Games similar to Star Stuff

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Exapunks
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Abriss
Design megastructures to wreak havoc on your targets.
7 Billion Humans
Apply parallel computing to a swarm of disposable office workers.
MHRD
Design various hardware circuits for a fictional startup in the 80s.
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Solve pirating puzzles by guiding ships to their treasure.
Railbound
Help two dogs on their railway adventure by placing tracks to guide the trains.
The Turing Test
Solve modular test chambers under the watch of a disquieting AI.
QuantumPulse 2A
Create and optimize programs that blend assembly language and radio-based communication.
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Identify the traits of collectible monsters from a series of letters.
Portal
Solve test chambers with a portal gun in this first-person classic.
TIS-100
Write assembly programs for a highly-parallel CPU architecture.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Guide the jumpless Captain Toad and Toadette through diorama-like levels filled with hazards.
Little Problems
Solve small mysteries and minor inconveniences from the everyday life of an inquisitive student.
The Talos Principle 2
Robots rebuild human civilization in this philosophical first-person puzzler.
Portal 2
Portal returns with an expansive story, new mechanics, and a co-op mode.
Remote Planets
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Help sentient, rectangular AIs find companionship within a puzzle-platforming mainframe.
Machinarium
Save Josef's girlfriend from the Black Cap Brotherhood in this robotic point-and-click adventure.
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Build an emulator for a fantasy console in a programming environment with rich feedback.
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Glimpse events from the past to deduce the fates of a party of adventurers.
Mind Diver
Swim through mindscapes, uncovering memories to solve a tragic mystery.
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Create a cat-to-human translation system with machine learning structures and visual programming.
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Help a whimsical duo of siblings on a journey of make-believe adventures.
Bring You Home
Scroll and select the right level parts to create a safe path for an unlikely hero.
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Lay tracks and place stations on miniature terrain models to design efficient transport networks.
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