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2026 PC

A physics-driven action adventure where you play a plantling with a sentient backpack, exploring a blighted world, solving ancient puzzles and fighting monsters.

What defines Rootbound:

  • Fantasy setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Lots to discover

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Epistory: Typing Chronicles

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2016 PCNintendo Switch 14.99 € 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 6,581 reviews on Steam Steam Deck playable

  • Fantasy setting
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Lots to discover

You play a muse accompanied by a fox in an adventure where everything, from movement to combat, is driven by typing. The paper-craft world unfolds as you explore, telling the story of a writer who has lost her inspiration.

Candle

Puzzles and brain teasers

A hand-painted puzzle-platform adventure where you play Teku, whose left hand is a candle, lighting your way through trap-filled, dark areas to rescue your tribe's shaman.

Ōkami

Fantasy setting

As the sun goddess Amaterasu in wolf form, you restore a mythical Japan from darkness by painting miracles onto the world with a celestial brush. Its ink-painting art style, inventive brush mechanics and warm humor make this Zelda-like adventure unforgettable.

Song of the Deep

Lots to discover

An underwater metroidvania where a girl pilots a submersible through the depths to find her missing father. Exploration and environmental puzzles take center stage, with fairly accessible combat.

Creatures of Ava

Lots to discover

A colorful action-adventure where you play Vata and calm creatures with empathy rather than fighting them, healing a world ravaged by a spreading infection. Exploration and creature-based puzzles take center stage.

Prince of Persia

Lavish presentation

A cel-shaded fairy-tale adventure where the Prince and the magical Elika acrobatically traverse a corrupted desert land, healing regions in a non-linear order. Elika saves you from every fall, making it a flowing, forgiving platformer carried by charming banter between the two.

Figment

Puzzles and brain teasers

Figment is a quirky action-adventure set inside a human mind, where you play Dusty, fighting nightmares and solving puzzles. Its hand-drawn world, musical numbers and dry humor make it stand out.

Hob

Lots to discover

Hob is a wordless action-adventure set in a vivid, mechanical world that you come to understand by exploring and reshaping the landscape. Puzzles, climbing and light combat make for a calm, atmospheric journey.

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