Tag: Difficult
Games that have either a steep learning curve, difficult to complete sections or high skill floor. The level of challenge may be more extreme than the average game.
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The Talos Principle
So when I tell you that the team behind Serious Sam made another game, what genre are you thinking? Because personally, “philosophical puzzle game” is quite low on the list. So this is a philosophical puzzler with an overarching story. Like Portal but slightly more biblical.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…
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Can of Wormholes
Yet another devilishly complex puzzle game with a simple premise and simple set of controls. Can of Wormholes is kind of a snake + Sokoban hybrid, a Snekoban if you will, where the goal is to get your snake into the hole. Your only controls are to move the head of the snake in one…
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Cracking The Cryptic
Sudoku. I’m surprised I haven’t posted any of these yet (other than Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, I suppose.) This is basically an almost complete mobile version of Sven’s SudokuPad (Steam, Web) and it does a really good job at all the stuff that you need to tackle really tricky puzzles. While this specific app doesn’t allow…
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Opus Magnum
Welcome to the age of alchemy and automation, you’ve been hired as the alchemist to a nobelman, and been given access to their transmutation engine, which you can configure and automate however you need to achieve your goals. Starting with a set of inputs and programmable arms, and create a set of outputs to complete…
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14 Minesweeper Variants
If you thought that Minesweeper was too easy, or that guessing in Minesweeper is a sin that should be avoided at all costs, then this is the game for you. 14 Variants is a brutally hard game that expects you to follow a bunch of potentially obscure logical trails to deduce every square and can…
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Celeste
Welcome to Celeste Mountain, a precarious climb to overcome with sheer force of will and a lot of character development. You play as Madoline, a sassy cutie who came to climb the mountain because they weren’t feeling the best in their home life, and you’ll meet a number of interesting and quirky characters each with…
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Rabi Ribi
Bunny girl with a hammer, what could go wrong. Well, a lot, I suppose. Somehow all the bunnies have disappeared and Erina, our protagonist, has turned into a bunny girl instead of a bunny? Whats going on? Whats this bunny phenomenon thats making every other girl on the island try to capture you? Guess you’ll…
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Taiji
Ever since I finished The Witness for the first time back in 2017, I’ve been looking for a puzzle game that follows that same formula, and this year I found it with Taiji. Instead of being a first person puzzle game about completing puzzle panels where you fill in the edges, this is a top-down…
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The Room
Yet another bundle of games, each with the same premise and controls. The Room is a series of point & click puzzle games with an overarching plot told through notes left behind by the people you’re trying to track down. The series starts off simple enough, you start with a box, and you have to…
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Filament
This is a brutally hard puzzle game, where the main mechanic involves controlling a small robot to wrap wires around pylons to open the exit. There are a dozen or so puzzle mechanics, which are each isolated to one set of puzzles, and introduced at the start of the set. Solving puzzles gives you more…
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Patrick’s Parabox
Take a look at the thumbnail image. That will tell you almost everything you need to know about this infinite Sokoban game.