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A demanding programming puzzler where you lay out waldo paths and instructions to build reactors that break apart and assemble molecules. Open-ended solutions and optimization histograms reward creative, engineer-style thinking.
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A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.
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A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.
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A first-person puzzle game in the vein of Portal, where you manipulate magnetic polarity to overcome obstacles. Tricky puzzles and precise timing challenge experienced players.
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A tense real-time puzzler where you clear rolling cubes on a floating platform by marking and deactivating spots, without being crushed. Minimalist design and rising time pressure create a distinctive blend of planning and speed.
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Chess expanded with time and parallel-universe dimensions, where pieces travel through time and spawn branching timelines. It demands intense spatial and temporal thinking, with puzzles, a short campaign and multiplayer matches.
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An extremely demanding 3D puzzle game where you push sausages across grills with a fork. A few simple rules unfold into brilliantly intricate, often brutally hard aha moments.
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A brain-bending puzzle game where you guide snake-like birds through levels, eating fruit while juggling gravity and body shape. Simple rules, but surprisingly devious puzzles.
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An indie real-time strategy game where you push back a spreading, fluid enemy mass called the Creeper with carefully placed turrets and power supply. It plays like a tactical tower-defense puzzle.
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A minimalist top-down stealth game that retells Robin Hood in a near-future setting. You plan routes past guards and sneak through levels while Andy Serkis helps carry the story.
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You design automated kitchens from machines and conveyor belts that fulfil orders efficiently, all for a robot boss who thinks he's human. A funny engineering and optimization puzzler with growing complexity.
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