Tag: Puzzle
Games where the main gameplay elements involve mental challenges or obstacles, or that require some thought or logic in order to complete.
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Off schedule post here because the game is currently like, 90% off on steam summer sale. Go play, you’ll like. Funky lil indie point and click puzzle game with a surprisingly charming aesthetic and voice acting, and a fun story that ends with sabotaging a submarine, which is…. impressively topical to say the least.
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Turing Complete
This game has consumed my entire life and has converted me into a hardware geek instead of a software one. Send help. Turing Complete is a surprisingly competent logic simulation model and game, where you start with nothing but a couple of basic gates, like NAND and NOR, and build your way up to a…
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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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Lucifer Within Us
A short little point and click detective mystery game set in a sci-fi futuristic world. You play as a Digital Exorcist trying to solve three increasingly complicated murders. There aren’t any interrogation minigames, quick time events, or required decisions, leaving you with quite an open detective system based on listening to testimony, gathering evidence, and…
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Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
I’ve talked about several minesweeper games, but time for a twist, Solitaire. 8 of them, in fact. All with their own theme and twists. You might have played some of these variants if you’ve ever played a Zachtronics game, but if there are any you’ve missed, you’ll want to pick this game up.
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Discolored
A short little point and click puzzle game. Some of the puzzles are a tiny bit obtuse, but my partner and I solved it in 2-3 hours without a walkthrough or anything. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
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Wandersong
A cute little game about a bard trying to save the world. Explore many fantastic locales and sing to solve puzzles. Recover the parts of the Earthsong to try and save the world!
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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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Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
It’s literally just a super lightweight collection of free and open-source newspaper puzzles. No concrete progression, no unlock system, no ads or IAPs, just pure puzzles and nothing else.
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TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Tri is a platformer, one with a very slightly off atmosphere, and in some cases a bit of non-euclidean map design, but its a puzzle platformer nontheless. Your goal is to find your missing fox friend by adventuring through areas, solving puzzles, and unlocking new tools.
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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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DemonCrawl
It’s basically Minesweeper but with rogue-like mechanics.