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A first-person narrative exploration game aboard a retrofuturist spaceship, where you type your own sentences into the ship's terminals to talk with its AI, Kaizen-85, and look for a way back to Earth. Free text rather than dialogue options is the central mechanism, and how you speak changes the AI's attitude and your ending. A 2016 work by Ocelot Society.
narrative-puzzleadventurefirst-personHappy Game
A point-and-click adventure that walks a sleeping boy through three chapters of nightmare. You pull, turn and pick at the screen to open the way forward, and what waits there is smiley faces, pink bunnies and rooms the colour of blood. Amanita Design's first turn toward horror, scored by the Czech band DVA.
puzzlepoint-and-clickadventureClosure
A 2D puzzle-platformer in which only lit ground exists — step into the dark and you fall straight through it. You carry glowing orbs, swivel wall lamps to aim their light, and bring the platforms you need into being on the way to the door. Drawn entirely in black and white across a factory, a forest and a circus. Eyebrow Interactive, 2012.
puzzlepuzzle-platformeratmosphericSomerville
A 2.5D narrative puzzle-adventure in which a nameless father crosses a British countryside broken by an alien invasion, a dog and a small son at his side. Light in hand, he melts alien matter and lets it set again to open a path. Jumpship's first game, told without a single line of dialogue.
puzzleadventureatmosphericMoncage
A wordless optical-illusion puzzle adventure. Each face of a glass cube holds a different world, and rotating your view until two silhouettes line up locks them into a single mechanism. You move between a factory, a lighthouse, an amusement park and a church, picking up scattered photographs that assemble the story of a father and a son. From Optillusion.
puzzleadventurepoint-and-clickGenesis Noir
A hand-drawn black-and-white point-and-click adventure in which you play No Man, a watch peddler diving through the history of the universe to save his love from the Big Bang — a gunshot fired by a jealous god. Feral Cat Den built it out of tactile puzzles: turn a dial, touch a thing, see what happens.
puzzleadventurepoint-and-clickSemblance
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you dent and raise the very ground to build your own footholds, threading past spikes and lasers to return each essence to the world-trees. Nyamakop's debut from South Africa, built on a single verb — deform — in a world with no 'hardness'.
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A 2.5D narrative puzzle-platformer that guides a hunted boy ever rightward through a dark dystopian facility, solving with push-pull, water, light, and the power to remote-control other bodies. Wordless, told entirely through its environment — Playdead's follow-up to LIMBO.
puzzleplatformeratmosphericThe Swapper
A 2D puzzle-platformer where a gun lets you spawn up to four clones and swap your consciousness between them as you descend the derelict space station Theseus. Red and blue lights bar cloning and swapping in a tight grammar while a lonely clay-modeled world quietly asks what the self is — from Facepalm Games.
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