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2015 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 24.50 € 👍 77 % Mostly positive, 1,883 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

A factory-optimization business sim where you design production lines for drugs, tune ingredients and layouts, and balance efficacy, side effects and profit. A wry, distinctive art style accompanies the satisfying puzzle-like tinkering.

What defines Big Pharma:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Tactical depth
  • Lots of humour
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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7 Billion Humans

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2018 PCNintendo Switch 14.79 € 👍 94 % Very positive, 1,952 reviews on Steam Steam Deck verified

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots of humour
  • Gameplay comes before story

A programming puzzle game where you use a simple command language to direct whole swarms of office workers in parallel. Wry humor and steadily rising complexity reward clever, efficient thinking.

Kaizen: A Factory Story

Tactical depth

An automation puzzle game from the former Zachtronics team, where you design and optimize production lines for calculators, camcorders and arcade machines in 1980s Japan.

Human Resource Machine

Linear, curated structure

You program a little office worker with simple assembly-like commands to automate tasks handed down by your boss. A witty, satirical logic puzzler that teaches programming through play and gets properly tricky later on.

Slayaway Camp

Tactical depth

A darkly funny sliding-block puzzle game where you play slasher Skullface and creatively dispatch blocky teens across parodies of 80s horror movies. Its colorful look and gory-yet-cute humor define the experience.

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle

Tactical depth

An isometric sliding puzzler where you play Jason Voorhees and dispatch campers in inventive, gory ways. Campy slasher parody and dark humor give the clever puzzles a distinctive flavor.

Is This Seat Taken?

Gameplay comes before story

A cozy logic puzzler where you seat quirky people so that all their peculiar likes and pet peeves are satisfied. Short, funny levels make for relaxed brain-teasing.

Angry Birds Rio

Gameplay comes before story

A physics puzzler where you fling birds from a slingshot at enemies and fragile structures. The Rio edition adds colorful jungle settings and introduces boss levels to the series.

Death Coming

Pure single-player experience

A darkly comic puzzle game where you play Death and engineer elaborate, Final Destination-style accidents to harvest souls. You also have to outwit the Agents of Light who try to stop you in small sandbox levels.

Poly Bridge

Gameplay comes before story

A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can cross safely. The sandbox and Steam Workshop support offer nearly endless levels and room to experiment.

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