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A contemplative single-player puzzle adventure through an infinite fractal world, mixing brain-teasing puzzles with a grief-driven narrative and a chatty cat.

Orten Was The Case
A time-loop puzzle adventure about saving the world through knowledge gained across repeated cycles, with a beautiful tone and a ~12-hour single-player campaign.
2023-11-29
- Action
- Puzzle

Adventure

Indie

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Backfirewall_

A short, charming first-person puzzle adventure inside a smartphone, blending wacky physics puzzles, story-rich narration, and tragicomic humor as you try to save the old OS.

2023-01-30

First person
Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie

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The Gap

A short, introspective first-person walking simulator about exploring parallel realities through déjà vu to recover memories and confront a family's neurological affliction.

2023-10-19

First person
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama

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Cat Museum

A surreal 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure in which you and a mischievous cat uncover a mysterious museum's secrets through atmospheric puzzles.

2022-03-17

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Arcade
Mystery

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The August Before

A short, meditative narrative puzzle about packing up your life and moving on, with a cute and wholesome tone.

2025-11-17

First person
Puzzle
Indie
Simulator

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Shady Part of Me

A roughly six-hour artistic puzzle game about emotional struggles, with dream-like visuals, light/shadow mechanics, and a melancholy story.

2020-12-10

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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The Master's Pupil

A hand-painted puzzle adventure set inside Monet's eyeball, offering a compact, contemplative journey through art-like scenes.

2023-07-28

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Educational

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Confabulation

A contemplative puzzle adventure about photographing anomalies in a shifting home to recover fading memories.

2023-01-13

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery
Non-fiction

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Syke

A short first-person exploratory puzzle game set in a mysteriously warped reality, where you solve geometry-based puzzles to uncover a love story and may risk motion sickness.

2024-05-06

Adventure
Indie

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Reviver

A hand-drawn narrative puzzle game about two lovers, featuring time-manipulation puzzles, alternating perspectives, and choice-driven storytelling in a ~7-hour experience.

2025-01-08

Adventure
Strategy
Indie

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The Talos Principle 2

A thought-provoking first-person puzzle adventure through a robot civilization, with large explorable landscapes and a roughly 30-hour narrative campaign.

2023-11-02

Action
First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie

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RE:CALL

A single-player puzzle adventure where altering memories rewrites reality, with a praised first half but divisive later puzzles.

2023-01-17

Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Mystery
Drama
Visual Novel