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2011 PlayStationXbox

Vincent is torn between his girlfriend and a seductive affair, and by night must climb deadly block towers in nightmares. By day he drinks at the bar and makes choices that steer the story, mixing relationship drama with brutally tough block-pushing puzzles.

What defines Catherine:

  • Choices with consequences
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Challenging difficulty

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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

85 %

1997 PCPlayStation 2.99 €

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A helpless Mudokon slave escapes a grotesque meat-processing plant using cunning, chanting and possession instead of weapons, rescuing fellow workers along the way. Its blend of black humor, punishing puzzle-platforming and striking art makes it a cult classic.

Papers, Please

9.75 €

Distinctive, stylised art style

As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.

Oddworld: Soulstorm

Lots of humour

As the reluctant hero Abe, you lead a Mudokon uprising through a dark yet quirky platformer of sneaking, puzzling and rescuing. Its blend of stealth, mass rescues and black humor sets it apart.

Mind Scanners

13.99 €

Distinctive, stylised art style

You play a mind-scanning psychiatrist in a retro-futuristic dystopia, diagnosing citizens and treating them through quirky arcade-style minigames while juggling time and resources. Your choices about patients carry weight and paint an unsettling picture of society.

Consume Me

14.79 €

Distinctive, stylised art style

A semi-autobiographical life sim about surviving high school, where you juggle time, diet and obligations through puzzle-style mechanics. Funny, painfully honest and visually distinctive.

Twelve Minutes

23.79 €

Strong, story-driven narrative

A time-loop thriller set in a single cramped apartment, where you relive the same twelve minutes and use what you learn each loop to unravel a dark secret surrounding your wife. A top-down point-and-click mystery with a star-studded voice cast.

Beholder

13.79 €

Strong, story-driven narrative

As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.

Not Tonight

16.79 €

Strong, story-driven narrative

You work as a bouncer in a dystopian post-Brexit Britain, checking IDs under time pressure while deciding whether to resist or comply. A biting political satire in pixel art built around document-checking gameplay.

Shadwen

16.99 €

Tactical depth

A 2.5D stealth game where you play an assassin outwitting guards with a grappling rope, physics and shadows, while a little girl watches your choices between killing and sparing. Each encounter is a stealth puzzle, since being spotted usually means instant death.

Not for Broadcast

24.50 €

Strong, story-driven narrative

You work the control room of a TV station in a satirical 1980s dystopia, cutting live broadcasts on the fly. Every call on what to show or censor shapes the story, mixed with dark humour and live-action footage.

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