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2012PCSteam Deck playable89 % positive8.19 €

As a space explorer with a jetpack, you explore Martian caverns and build a working ecosystem out of strange alien life. Understanding how the organisms interact drives the puzzles and gradually reveals the planet's past.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots to discover
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2023USK 0PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified94 % positive24.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Waking Mars: puzzles to figure out, a sci-fi setting and a calm pace.

You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.

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An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you create clones of yourself and swap between them to solve puzzles on an abandoned space station. Its handcrafted, claustrophobic look and philosophical story about consciousness and identity set it apart.

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Hiiro

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Hiiro is a calm 2D platformer where you wander alone through forgotten ruins and solve environmental puzzles. Meditative music and a mysterious sense of solitude create a relaxed, contemplative mood.

Saira

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A metroidvania-style puzzle platformer where photographer Saira, seemingly the last person in the galaxy, explores alien worlds. Its look is built from high-resolution photographs, giving it a mysterious atmosphere.

Mushroom 11

Respects your time

You guide a shapeless organism by erasing its cells, and that is how you move through a ruined world. The unusual control scheme turns each puzzle into a creative experiment.

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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.

Omno

Cosy, great for unwinding

A relaxed 3D puzzle-platformer where you wander an abandoned world of secrets through forests, deserts and tundras, all the way up to the clouds. Calm atmosphere, puzzles and the joy of discovery take center stage, with no real combat.

A Story About My Uncle

Cosy, great for unwinding

A non-violent first-person platformer where you swing with a grappling hook through colorful caverns and floating worlds while a boy searches for his missing uncle. The fluid sense of speed and freedom is the heart of the game.

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