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Tactical Breach Wizards
A turn-based tactical puzzle in which a squad of wizards in body armour clears a building one room at a time. Every shot lands, nothing is random, and you can rewind as many turns as you like. From Suspicious Developments, the studio behind Gunpoint.
puzzlestrategynarrative-puzzleTetrobot and Co.
A grid-based thinking puzzle in which you steer Psychobot, a microscopic repair robot, swallowing and spitting blocks to mend the insides of a broken giant. Swing Swing Submarine build fifty-odd levels out of little more than three materials — wood, sand, stone — and one rule: like sticks only to like.
puzzlelogicsokoban-likeWorld of Goo 2
A sequel to the physics-building puzzler: grab black goo balls, link them into bridges and towers, and route them to the exit pipe. New goo species that stretch, shrink and explode join liquid that runs downhill and pools, across five chapters and sixty-plus levels. From 2D BOY and Tomorrow Corporation.
physicspuzzleassemblyRailbound
An overhead track-laying puzzle where you place a limited number of rails so a moving locomotive links its carriages in the right order, avoids collisions, and brings everyone home. Tunnels, barriers and switches blow the board up into timing permutations, all solved with a single verb: lay track. From Afterburn, the studio behind Golf Peaks.
puzzlelogicpathfindingIsles of Sea and Sky
A memory-less castaway pushes blocks — and only pushes them — through traps and portals across an open ocean of islands. Each island twists one mechanic while a wordless myth unfolds, growing a bottomless labyrinth from one verb. From Cicada Games.
puzzlesokoban-likeexplorationSokobond
A 2D Sokoban puzzle where you move a single atom around a grid and bond it with the atoms it touches to assemble a target molecule. Each atom's number of free 'hands' is the only grammar; tiles that break, double, and rotate bonds arrive one per chapter. By Alan Hazelden and Lee Shang Lun, 2014, scored by Allison Walker.
puzzlesokoban-likelogicCosmic Express
A route-drawing puzzle: lay down train tracks to pick up and drop off cute alien passengers in the right order, fitting one winding path into a tight grid.
puzzlepathfindingsokoban-likeA Monster's Expedition
Push trees to make logs and bridge to the next island. An open-world Sokoban.
sokoban-likeobservationBlue Prince
A mansion roguelite where each day you draft the room behind the door.
logic-gridpathfindingmeta-puzzleLorelei and the Laser Eyes
In an eerie monochrome hotel, over 150 ciphers, numbers, and symbol puzzles weave through every floor.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzlePatrick's Parabox
A textbook example of recursive Sokoban, structured as a master class in pedagogy.
sokoban-likemeta-puzzleUnpacking
Pull things from boxes and place them on shelves. A 'life-told-by-objects' puzzle.
assemblynarrative-puzzleobservationBaba Is You
A language Sokoban where you push the rules themselves around.
meta-puzzlesokoban-likeGorogoa
A hand-drawn 2×2 grid of paintings. Rearrange, zoom, connect — a picture-book puzzle.
observationassemblynarrative-puzzleStephen's Sausage Roll
Grill a sausage evenly on all six sides. The difficulty is almost a joke.
sokoban-likeThe Talos Principle
A robot solves trials in Roman-style ruins while a voice in their head questions their selfhood and divinity.
logic-gridpathfindingnarrative-puzzleQ.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Inside a white box, push, raise, and bounce off colored blocks. A first-person physics puzzle.
physicspathfindingPortal 2
Gels and lasers expand the portal vocabulary into a larger, co-op-ready peak of the genre.
physicspathfindingobservationMachinarium
In a town built of scrap, a small robot rescues his lover. A hand-drawn, dialogue-free adventure.
narrative-puzzleassemblyobservationWorld of Goo
Stack squishy goo balls into bridges and towers to deliver them to the goal. Physics building.
physicsassemblyPortal
Rewriting space itself with a portal gun. The textbook for 3D puzzle design.
physicspathfindingobservationSyberia II
Kate and the automaton Oscar travel into frozen Russia for one final leg of the journey.
narrative-puzzleassemblyobservationSyberia
Lawyer Kate Walker crosses Europe and Russia, unraveling the mystery of the automata.
narrative-puzzleassemblyobservationMyst III: Exile
A canonical Myst sequel across six Ages. The first to introduce 360-degree free view.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleEscape from Monkey Island
Pirate Guybrush's last classic, the era of 3D LucasArts adventure, with wildly inventive item combinations.
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