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2009 PCPlayStation 👍 90 % Very positive, 601 reviews on Steam

A stylish cave shooter where you pilot a small ship and use fluid physics of lava, water and gas to rescue survivors. The liquid simulation turns each level into a clever puzzle with bursts of action.

What defines PixelJunk Shooter:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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2012 PCPlayStationXbox 19.50 € 👍 83 % Very positive, 2,425 reviews on Steam Steam Deck verified

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A charming puzzle-platformer about a young boy stranded on an alien planet, using a gravity beam and clever puzzles to find his way home. Its painterly art style and moody soundtrack are the highlights.

Edge

Gameplay comes before story

Edge is an isometric platform-puzzler where you roll a cube through minimalist, floating levels. Collecting prisms, finding shortcuts and chasing best times drive the play, backed by an electronic soundtrack.

Cocoon

Puzzles and brain teasers

Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.

Creature in the Well

Puzzles and brain teasers

A stylish top-down action game where you play a robot batting energy orbs around dungeon rooms like a pinball table to solve puzzles and fight a creature. The blend of pinball, combat and puzzles feels very original.

Capsized

Focus on a single character

A fast 2D shooter-platformer where you jetpack and grapple across an alien planet, blasting creatures and solving environmental puzzles. Its painterly, colorful look and physics-driven movement give it its own character.

Planet Alpha

Sci-fi setting

An atmospheric 2D platform adventure on an alien planet where you shift the time of day to solve puzzles and slip past dangerous creatures. Striking colors and wordless storytelling define the experience.

Q.U.B.E.

Linear, curated structure

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.

Q.U.B.E. 2

Focus on a single character

A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.

Humanity

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a Shiba Inu guiding huge marching crowds of humans through inventive puzzle stages, using commands to get past hazards and obstacles. A built-in level editor adds a near-endless supply of user-made levels.

Velocity 2X

Linear, curated structure

A fast sci-fi game that blends top-down shoot-'em-up stages with quick platforming and teleport-based puzzle sections. It's all about speed, precise control and chasing best times.

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