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Toki Tori
A 2D thinking puzzle in which a chick collects every trapped egg using only the tools a level hands him — build a step, lay a bridge, freeze a creature. What you are given, and how many, is itself the shape of the answer. From the Dutch studio Two Tribes, rebuilt from their 2001 Game Boy Color original.
puzzlepuzzle-platformerlogicTactical 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-puzzleDesktop Dungeons: Rewind
A turn-based puzzle-roguelike on a single screen of dungeon, where revealing unexplored tiles is what heals you, so every fight is a resource problem. QCF Design's 3D remake of their 2013 Desktop Dungeons, with a rewind for taking moves back and the kingdom-building layer carried over.
puzzleroguelikestrategyThe Talos Principle: Reawakened
A first-person puzzle game through ruined gardens, where a jammer that shuts devices off, a connector that carries a beam and a recorder that replays your own movement combine to open doors. Croteam rebuilt their 2014 game in Unreal Engine 5 and packed the Road to Gehenna expansion, an eighteen-room new chapter and a level editor into one release.
puzzlefirst-personlogic-gridUnheard - Voices of Crime
A deduction adventure played over a top-down floor plan: you move between rooms and scrub a recording of the day back and forth, listening. There are no subtitles — you name the figures and answer the case questions using only what you heard. From NExT Studios.
mysteryobservationpuzzleTacoma
A first-person exploration adventure set aboard an emptied space station in 2088, where you replay, rewind and walk around volumetric recordings of its six-person crew to reconstruct the days before they left. From Fullbright, the studio behind Gone Home.
observationnarrativeadventureTin Hearts
A Lemmings-style 3D puzzler seen from above: place contraptions on a diorama to steer a troop of tin soldiers who never stop marching. Set in a Victorian inventor's house and solved with time-rewind and a handful of tools, from Rogue Sun, made by former Fable developers.
puzzlelemmings-likenarrativeTimelie
A third-person time-manipulation stealth puzzle where you drag time back and forth like a media player's timeline—watch the future, then rewind and rewrite the past—steering a girl and a cat at once past patrolling robots. Released in 2020 by Thailand's Urnique Studio.
puzzlestealthtime-manipulationIMMORTALITY
An FMV adventure built from the unreleased films of vanished actress Marissa Marcel. Pause the footage, click a face or an object to match-cut into another clip, and assemble the fragments to chase her disappearance. From Her Story's Sam Barlow, who reworks the verb 'search' from text into the visual.
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