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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.
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The closest matches for Taiji are The Witness, Islands of Insight and Myst. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Taiji special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Best match
A vibrant, deserted island packed with line-maze puzzles whose rules you must figure out entirely without instructions. The real reward is the epiphany of grasping each hidden principle, even in the landscape itself.
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Open world
A huge open world of floating islands packed with handcrafted puzzles that you discover and solve at your own pace. Calm exploration and genuine aha moments take center stage rather than combat or story.
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A landmark adventure where you wander a mysterious island alone and solve intricate logic puzzles woven into the environment to uncover the fate of two trapped brothers. With no combat or hand-holding, it is a quiet, observation-driven journey of discovery.
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Cosy, great for unwinding
A voxel-art puzzle game where you push and stack crates across diorama-like levels to reach bonfires and burn mementos. Its calm, melancholic mood contrasts with some genuinely tricky puzzles.
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Challenging difficulty
You explore the mysterious island of Myst alone and travel through magical books to other worlds, unraveling their puzzles and the story behind them. A quiet, atmospheric puzzle adventure with no combat, where observation and thinking are everything.
87 % 4.99 €
Challenging difficulty
As a professional safecracker you comb an eccentric collector's mansion and open 35 safes by piecing together scattered clues. A pure point-and-click puzzle adventure with no combat and plenty of head-scratching logic.
87 % 18.99 €
Challenging difficulty
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.
87 % 6.15 €
Challenging difficulty
Riven sends you alone through a decaying, lovingly crafted island world where you must decipher interlocking mechanical puzzles with almost no guidance. Its dense atmosphere and coherent world design make it a classic of the adventure genre.
87 % 14.79 €
Open world
A minimalist, abstract exploration game where you solve puzzles to revive a world built from sound. You shape tones and create music that becomes part of the world itself.
86 % 9.99 €
Open world
A serene pixel-art platformer where rotating a flat-looking world reveals hidden paths through a third dimension. Beneath its calm surface lie cryptic ciphers and deep secrets that reward obsessive puzzle-solving.
