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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.
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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.
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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.
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A first-person puzzle about choosing your gravity inside an Escher-esque world of infinitely repeating architecture.
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Push trees to make logs and bridge to the next island. An open-world Sokoban.
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A mansion roguelite where each day you draft the room behind the door.
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In an eerie monochrome hotel, over 150 ciphers, numbers, and symbol puzzles weave through every floor.
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Lasers and cubes and philosophical dialogue weigh equally in this first-person puzzle.
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A world inside an orb, an orb inside that world, all the way down.
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Pull things from boxes and place them on shelves. A 'life-told-by-objects' puzzle.
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Explore a solar system on a 22-minute loop and unravel the mysteries of an ancient race.
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More than five hundred line-drawing panels. Observation itself becomes the verb.
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A robot solves trials in Roman-style ruins while a voice in their head questions their selfhood and divinity.
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Inside a white box, push, raise, and bounce off colored blocks. A first-person physics puzzle.
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Gels and lasers expand the portal vocabulary into a larger, co-op-ready peak of the genre.
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A boy walks through a monochrome forest searching for his sister. Trial and death advance the way.
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Dive into other characters' minds and solve the puzzles their inner worlds present. A peculiar 3D adventure.
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Pirate Guybrush's last classic, the era of 3D LucasArts adventure, with wildly inventive item combinations.
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