TAG
#mouse-only
16 reviews · 0 essays
Related reviews
Samorost 3
A point-and-click adventure across nine tiny worlds with no dialogue and no text, where a hooded figure carries a found brass flute and opens the way by playing notes at rocks, creatures and machines. From Amanita Design, the studio behind Machinarium.
puzzlepoint-and-clickexplorationPaper Trail
A top-down puzzle game in which the screen is a sheet of paper: fold it over and the terrain on the reverse joins the front, building a path for Paige as she journeys through a hand-drawn world. From Newfangled Games.
puzzleadventurepathfindingUnderstand
A mouse-only minimalist puzzle where each level hides a ruleset: you draw a single line, read which rules it satisfied, and deduce the hidden rules themselves. Almost no instructions, you advance on hypothesis and refutation alone. By Artless Games, 2020.
puzzlelogic-deductionobservationCosmic 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-likeUnpacking
Pull things from boxes and place them on shelves. A 'life-told-by-objects' puzzle.
assemblynarrative-puzzleobservationReturn 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.
observationassemblynarrative-puzzleHer Story
Search a police database of live-action video clips to reconstruct the story of a missing husband. An FMV mystery.
narrative-puzzleobservationmeta-puzzlePapers, Please
A border inspector in a fictional authoritarian state, caught between paperwork and morality.
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleMachinarium
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.
physicsassemblySyberia II
Kate and the automaton Oscar travel into frozen Russia for one final leg of the journey.
narrative-puzzleassemblyobservationZuma Deluxe
Fire same-color balls into an Aztec-themed snake's path to clear them. PopCap's golden-era action puzzle.
matchobservationSyberia
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.
narrative-puzzleassemblyobservation
