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2012 PCPlayStationNintendo Switch

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer in which you guide Born as he flees the Void, painting the terrain with colours that make surfaces slippery, sticky or bouncy. Each world adds a new colour and fresh puzzles.

What defines Nihilumbra:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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Darq

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2019 PCXboxNintendo Switch

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

Darq is a dark puzzle-horror game in which a boy escapes a nightmare by twisting gravity and the rules of space. Striking atmosphere and clever puzzles define this short, linear experience.

Underground Blossom

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A surreal Rusty Lake point-and-click puzzler where you solve tasks at metro stations to relive key moments from Laura Vanderboom's life. Quirky puzzles and a melancholic mood define this short, narrative-driven journey.

Limbo

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A wordless puzzle-platformer rendered in stark black and white, following a boy through a hostile shadow world full of deadly traps learned through trial and error. Its oppressive atmosphere and minimalist art make it a haunting, memorable experience.

Happy Game

Puzzles and brain teasers

A surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure from Amanita Design in which you wander through a little boy's nightmare. Its disturbing hand-drawn imagery sharply contrasts with the cheerful title.

Cube Escape: Theatre

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, dark and surreal point-and-click puzzle game from the Rusty Lake series, set in a theatre inside the protagonist's mind where you complete six plays. Quirky puzzles and an eerie mood define the experience.

Cube Escape: Arles

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A short, darkly surreal point-and-click escape puzzle in the Rusty Lake universe: in a bedroom in Arles you collect art supplies and solve odd puzzles until a macabre sacrifice becomes necessary.

Papo & Yo

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A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

Cube Escape: The Mill

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, eerie point-and-click escape puzzle set in the Rusty Lake universe: inside Mr. Crow's mill you solve quirky, macabre puzzles and piece together a dark story bit by bit.

Cube Escape: The Cave

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure set in the surreal Rusty Lake universe, where you solve cryptic puzzles in a sinister cave and piece together the unsettling lore bit by bit.

My Memory of Us

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer about the friendship of two children in a divided city inspired by the Holocaust. Two characters with different abilities solve puzzles and sneak past guards together, in a striking black-and-white look with accents of color.

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