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2015PC83 % positive3.99 €

A minimalist first-person puzzle platformer where you shift between overlapping black and white dimensions, using switches, boosters and gravity to reach each level's exit.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Interconnected level design
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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2011PEGI 12PC94 % positive5.99 €

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A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

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Sokobond

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A minimalist Sokoban-style puzzler where you slide atoms around and join them into molecules following the rules of chemical bonding. Simple rules grow into increasingly clever brain teasers.

Puddle

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You control no character, only a pool of fluid, by tilting the environment. Use physics and the properties of water, oil, lava or nitroglycerin to carry as much liquid as possible through hazardous levels.

Caliper

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A puzzle platformer where you work your way through tricky levels using ice, fire and portals. You need to exploit how freezing and melting interact to make progress.

Voi

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A minimalist logic puzzle built around XOR rules, where identical elements cancel out and black plus black makes white. You need to grasp the unusual rule and apply it cleverly.

I Expect You to Die

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As a secret agent in classic Bond-movie style, you solve tricky VR puzzles in deadly scenarios by grabbing, combining and manipulating objects. Dry humor and a stylish retro-spy atmosphere set it apart.

Human Resource Machine

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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.

Neverout

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An escape-room-style puzzle game where reality keeps bending: up becomes down, fire freezes and ice burns. You solve surreal puzzles and traps through logic and lateral thinking.

Macdows 95

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In Macdows 95 you tackle absurd puzzles built around an invented operating system whose logic deliberately bends away from everyday computing. The charm lies in its unexpected solutions and the playful, offbeat take on interface design.

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