Recursed
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms.
96% of 639 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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Recursed
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
96% of 639 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Maquette
Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
69% of 626 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99Manifold Garden
A first-person puzzle game set in an Escher-like world where geometry repeats forever and falling down drops you back where you started. Rotate gravity to walk on any surface, move glowing blocks and flowing water, and restore a barren world with gardens. Calm, strange and endlessly striking, it plays like a dream you steer.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Mysterious
95% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
92% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99In Between
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
85% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Still There
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
87% of 774 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Viewfinder
Viewfinder hands you an instant camera with a strange rule: place a photo in the world and it becomes real. A picture of a bridge turns into a bridge. A painting turns into a room you can walk into. Reshape surreal worlds to solve gentle puzzles and uncover what happened to the people who built them.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
94% of 12,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$24.99The Almost Gone
Trapped between life and death, you pick through the dioramas of your own life: a sitting room, a hospital, a police car in a tree. Rotate each small world, find what was left behind, and piece together a quiet, sad story about a family. Short, beautiful and haunting.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
80% of 1,025 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99The Talos Principle
A first-person puzzle game about a robot waking in a world of ancient ruins and strange technology, told to solve over 120 puzzles by a voice calling itself Elohim. Lasers, drones, time tricks and a lot of philosophy. Come for the brainteasers, stay because the questions follow you home.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
95% of 29,397 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 110$29.99The Sojourn
The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
69% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Patrick's Parabox
A puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes. Push a box into another box, push yourself into a box, push a box into itself, and slowly learn to think in recursion. Over 350 hand-crafted puzzles, each built around one new idea, in a calm, minimalist world where infinity is a tool and not a threat.
Surreal, Atmospheric
99% of 5,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$19.99Quern - Undying Thoughts
Trapped on an island after a portal closes behind you, you explore its quiet corners, crack mechanical puzzles that build on each other, and piece together what happened here. A first-person puzzle adventure for anyone who likes taking notes, thinking hard and wandering somewhere beautiful.
Surreal, Atmospheric, Emotional
90% of 3,877 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 120$2.49
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My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
In Between
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate.
85% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
The Almost Gone
Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.
80% of 1,025 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Quern - Undying Thoughts
Wander a strange island, untangle its machines and uncover the story behind your stranded arrival.
90% of 3,877 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 120$2.49
The Witness
You wake up alone on a strange island with no memory and over 500 puzzles.
85% of 17,487 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$9.99
Another Perspective
Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something.
93% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
How to Say Goodbye
How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books.
90% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
Peregrin
Peregrin is a story puzzle game. A solitary traveller undertakes a perilous voyage through the haunted ruins of a lost civilisation.
77% of 225 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
She Remembered Caterpillars
A fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game.
97% of 188 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Monument Valley
Guide a silent princess through monuments that rearrange themselves into paths, one calm, beautifully impossible puzzle at a time.
98% of 7,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$7.99
Rememoried
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a…
57% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.
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Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.
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Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past.
95% of 432 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Rivage
Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.
74% of 552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99
Subliminal
Carry a light through places built from memory, bend it to change the space, and keep away from what waits in the dark.
74% of 3,679 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$9.99
How to Say Goodbye
How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books.
90% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
Patrick's Parabox
A calm puzzle game where boxes contain boxes, and even you can fit inside one.
99% of 5,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$19.99
Monument Valley
Guide a silent princess through monuments that rearrange themselves into paths, one calm, beautifully impossible puzzle at a time.
98% of 7,774 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$7.99
Viewfinder
Solve gentle puzzles by reshaping surreal worlds with a camera that makes pictures real, and uncover the story of the people who built them.
94% of 12,398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$24.99
Platonic
Platonic is a first-person puzzle adventure game. Explore five unique worlds. Solve logical challenges. Gather clues and think outside the cube.
86% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Shady Part of Me
Guide a little girl through dreamlike watercolor worlds while her living shadow walks the walls beside her, and each one needs the other to move on.
93% of 2,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$14.99
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A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
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Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.
74% of 552 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99
Subliminal
Carry a light through places built from memory, bend it to change the space, and keep away from what waits in the dark.
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Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.
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Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
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92% of 241 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
TEST TEST TEST
Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.
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Ugly
Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past.
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Solve gentle puzzles by reshaping surreal worlds with a camera that makes pictures real, and uncover the story of the people who built them.
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90% of 144 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
Monument Valley
Guide a silent princess through monuments that rearrange themselves into paths, one calm, beautifully impossible puzzle at a time.
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Logicality
Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams.
72% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$7.99