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2016PC3.99 €

A minimalist top-down adventure that drops you into a grid of rooms with almost no guidance. Discovery and experimentation unlock new abilities and areas.

  • Interconnected level design
  • Lots to discover
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Pertinence

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Pertinence special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Antichamber

88 %Match

2013PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive18.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Pertinence: interconnected level design, lots to discover and puzzles to figure out.

A surreal first-person puzzler where impossible spaces and geometry defy logic. Short philosophical messages guide you through a minimalist, vivid world full of aha moments.

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Taiji

Lots to discover

Taiji is a quiet open-world puzzle game where you must uncover the rules and clues yourself. Careful observation and experimentation lead to aha moments, with almost no hand-holding.

Starseed Pilgrim

Interconnected level design

An experimental puzzle-platformer where you plant seeds and grow blocks with different properties into structures to climb higher and travel further. You discover the rules yourself through experimentation.

Kairo

Lots to discover

Kairo is a quiet, minimalist first-person exploration and puzzle game where you wander surreal abandoned architecture and reactivate ancient machinery. Its lonely, eerie mood and soundtrack take center stage.

Manifold Garden

Interconnected level design

A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.

Linelight

Gameplay comes before story

A minimalist puzzle game where you guide a glowing line through a world made of lines. Its puzzles introduce new ideas gently and feel calm and elegant.

Kenshō

Gameplay comes before story

Kenshō is a calm puzzle adventure where you bend time and space through natural landscapes. Its clever puzzles are carried by a meditative atmosphere and inventive ideas.

InFlux

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a mysterious metal sphere rolling across a deserted island, solving platforming puzzles inside glass cube structures. Calm, abstract environments invite quiet exploration.

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