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Taiji
A grid-based logic puzzle in the lineage of The Witness: toggle tiles on panels by deducing unwritten rules through pure observation, as you roam a quiet open world.
observationlogic-gridopen-worldIslands of Insight
A sprawling open-world puzzle game with thousands of hand-crafted puzzles — line-drawing, observation, logic — scattered across a fantasy realm to solve at your own pace.
puzzleopen-worldlogicThe Pedestrian
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you rearrange and wire together public signs, building a path through the signage for a little stick figure to cross a living city.
puzzleplatformerassemblyThe Case of the Golden Idol
A deduction game: examine frozen crime-scene tableaus, gather words from the evidence, and fill in the blanks to reconstruct each murder across an 18th-century mystery.
deductionobservationnarrative-puzzleViewfinder
A first-person perspective puzzle where the photographs you place into the world become real 3D space, letting you reshape the environment to find a path through.
perspective-puzzlefirst-personphoto-puzzleMaquette
A first-person recursive puzzle set in a world nested inside itself: the model at its center is the very world you stand in, so shrinking or enlarging objects ripples across scales — all wrapped in a love story.
perspective-puzzlenarrative-puzzlerecursionSuperliminal
A first-person puzzle where perspective alone decides how big things are.
first-personexplorationChants of Sennaar
Climbing a Babel-like tower, you decipher the unknown logographic language of each floor's people from pictures and gestures. A game of observation and inference.
observationnarrative-puzzlemeta-puzzleSnakebird
A snakebird grows by eating fruit, and must use its lengthening body to solve grid-based puzzles. A thoughtful sokoban-like about shape and constraint.
puzzlesokoban-likeAntichamber
A first-person puzzler in white walls and black lines that treats non-Euclidean space itself as a grammar.
observationmeta-puzzlefirst-personManifold Garden
A first-person puzzle about choosing your gravity inside an Escher-esque world of infinitely repeating architecture.
puzzlefirst-personexplorationRecursed
A 2D puzzle that translates recursion into a tiny pixel-art room. The grandfather of Patrick's Parabox.
puzzleplatformerrecursiveBonfire Peaks
A Sokoban about closure — carry your belongings to the bonfire and let them burn.
puzzlesokoban-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-puzzleThe Talos Principle 2
Lasers and cubes and philosophical dialogue weigh equally in this first-person puzzle.
logic-gridnarrative-puzzleassemblyCOCOON
A world inside an orb, an orb inside that world, all the way down.
meta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleassemblyPatrick'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-puzzleobservationOuter Wilds
Explore a solar system on a 22-minute loop and unravel the mysteries of an ancient race.
narrative-puzzleobservationmeta-puzzleBaba Is You
A language Sokoban where you push the rules themselves around.
meta-puzzlesokoban-likeReturn of the Obra Dinn
A monochrome mystery where an insurance assessor must identify sixty crew and reconstruct their fates aboard a ghost ship.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleGorogoa
A hand-drawn 2×2 grid of paintings. Rearrange, zoom, connect — a picture-book puzzle.
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