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2012 PCPlayStationNintendo Switch −70 % 6.99 € 2.09 € 👍 88 % Very positive, 2,949 reviews on Steam

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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2015 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 8.99 € 👍 86 % Very positive, 827 reviews on Steam

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  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A dark 2D puzzle platformer where you form words from letters to reshape the environment and get past obstacles. Its surreal, stark visual style and word-based mechanic set it apart.

Closure

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A dark puzzle-platformer where only what is lit exists: you move light sources to phase objects in and out of reality and navigate eerie worlds like a factory, forest and carnival.

Monochroma

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An atmospheric puzzle platformer set in a bleak, monochrome industrial world with striking red accents. Two brothers work through clever physical puzzles, with carrying the younger sibling shaping how challenges are solved.

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.

Darq

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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.

Happy Game

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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.

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: 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.

My Memory of Us

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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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