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La-Mulana 2
A 2D exploration-puzzle action game in which Lumisa Kosugi descends into the ancient ruins of Eg-Lana with a whip and a notebook. You copy down the inscriptions on the walls and match them to contraptions several rooms away. NIGORO's sequel to La-Mulana.
puzzleexplorationmetroidvaniaEscape Goat 2
A 2D puzzle platformer about escaping a trap-filled stronghold with a goat and its mouse companion. Each room is a single screen, solved with jumps, an immortal mouse that crawls walls and stands on switches, and a magic hat that swaps the goat's position with the mouse's. Over a hundred rooms across ten zones, from MagicalTimeBean in 2014.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerplatformerOneShot
A top-down puzzle adventure: guide a child through a world whose sun has died, carrying a single lightbulb toward the top of it. Between the item-combining, a handful of puzzles reach out into the player's own computer. From Future Cat.
puzzlemeta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleMinit
A small black-and-white top-down adventure in which a curse ends every life after sixty seconds and sends you home. Only the items you picked up and the new houses you found carry over, so each minute reaches a little further than the last. Made by four developers including Vlambeer's Jan Willem Nijman, published by Devolver Digital.
adventurepuzzletime-loopLa-Mulana
A 2D exploration-puzzle action game in which an archaeologist descends into the vast ruins of La-Mulana with a whip and a laptop, decoding tablet inscriptions while surviving traps and monsters. NIGORO's remake of their own MSX-inspired maze game, ported to PC.
puzzleexplorationmetroidvaniaLinelight
A minimalist puzzle game in which you steer a small bar of light along thin lines, working past switches, doors, keys and lethal red lines. No jump button and no shoot button — over 250 levels across six worlds, from My Dog Zorro.
puzzleminimalistpuzzle-platformerClosure
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-platformeratmosphericThe Turing Test
A first-person sci-fi puzzle on a moon of Jupiter: redirect energy orbs between sockets to open doors and cross a series of test chambers, wrapped in a story about machine and human judgment.
puzzlefirst-personnarrative-puzzleThe 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.
puzzleplatformerassemblyAntichamber
A first-person puzzler in white walls and black lines that treats non-Euclidean space itself as a grammar.
observationmeta-puzzlefirst-personRecursed
A 2D puzzle that translates recursion into a tiny pixel-art room. The grandfather of Patrick's Parabox.
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