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What Surrounds Us
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A cozy single-player puzzle adventure about observing an abstract ecosystem, solving environmental challenges, and saving its colorful habitat in about 90 minutes.

Chroma Zero
An indie adventure of exploration and intricate environmental puzzles, taking around 9-11 hours to uncover a fragile world's secrets.
2024-12-12
- First person
- Science fiction
- Puzzle

Adventure

Indie

Open world

Mystery

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Sensorium

A small single-player semi-open world puzzle adventure whose environmental puzzles each revolve around one of the five senses.

2020-08-28

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Open world

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Ynglet

A calming, psychedelic adventure of floating and dashing through an abstract hand-drawn sky with a reactive soundtrack, best enjoyed in a short two-hour sitting.

2021-06-05

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Arcade
Music
Auditory

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Onde

A short, meditative abstract sound-surfing platformer with ethereal visuals and music, praised for its stunning style despite uneven controls.

2022-03-17

Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Arcade

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🔴 Circles

A relaxing, wordless circle-based puzzle game with minimalist visuals and a meditative pace, typically played through in around 7 hours.

2017-02-17

Puzzle
Indie
Auditory

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NAIAD

A calming, roughly 10-hour 2D adventure about flowing down a mysterious river and interacting with nature in a dreamy, wholesome world.

2024-12-10

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Kids

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Ouros

A serene puzzle game about deforming curves into beautiful shapes, with a satisfying feel and a gentle difficulty curve over roughly 4–5 hours.

2024-05-22

Puzzle
Indie

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Find Your Words

A cozy summer-camp adventure about making friends through a unique picture-binder communication system, completable in under an hour.

2026-04-08

Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Educational

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Öoo

A charming, mysterious single-player puzzle platformer where you play as an explosive caterpillar solving environmental puzzles through creative bomb use.

2025-08-07

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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The Last Campfire

A gentle, story-driven puzzle adventure about a lost ember searching for meaning and a way home, with easy creative puzzles and a cozy tone.

2021-10-07

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

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Shape of the World

A serene first-person exploration game in a surreal, reactive world, typically finished in about 3-4 hours.

2018-06-05

Action
First person
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator
Music

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Pilo and the Holobook

A cozy, combat-free exploration adventure across hand-drawn planets, where you scan discoveries into stickers and unravel a heartfelt story in about five hours.

2025-04-10

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Arcade