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IDEA

IDEA is a game about discovering and sharing. Explore gorgeous landscapes, roll down highways and stumble upon welcoming cottages and abandoned dumpsters. Help your ideas find their way – and share them with the world when they stop, before beginning your journey anew.

★ SENSORIUM ★ FIXFOX ★ SOLAR 2 ★ ANIMAL WELL ★ OGU AND THE SECRET FOREST ★ QUERN - UNDYING THOUGHTS ★ MONUMENT VALLEY ★ FEZ ★ ÖOO ★ BIG WALK ★ THE LOOKER ★ TANGLE TOWER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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FixFox

87% 👍 OF 453
About This Game

Arriving on a curious planet, Vix and her toolbox Tin explore space, fixing machines with unconventional tools and eating cozy meals with kind robot locals. On an epic adventure, the duo repairs an interstellar beacon, constructs giant mechs, and unravels a cosmic mystery that transcends existence.

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Solar 2

91% 👍 OF 2.2K
About This Game

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

In this game, you can…

  • …become a neutron star, then a black hole, and start devouring planets, stars, and other black holes.
  • …trigger a universe-ending big crunch, then watch a new Big Bang restart everything.
  • …assemble and save a 46-star system, then reload it to keep experimenting.
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ANIMAL WELL

96% 👍 OF 24K
About This Game

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

In this game, you can…

  • …ride your thrown frisbee across a room after you land on it.
  • …use a bubble wand to keep making platforms, turning jumps into near-infinite air time with the right timing.
  • …hit the credits, then keep digging into post-game mysteries that can take a whole community sharing notes to untangle.
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Ogu and the Secret Forest

94% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Explore the wonderful world with baby Ogu! 'Ogu and the Secret Forest' is a 2D adventure game with hand-drawn characters and various types of puzzles. Befriend bouncy characters and defeat strange creatures to unravel the mystery of the charming world.

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Quern - Undying Thoughts

91% 👍 OF 4.1K
About This Game

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

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Monument Valley

97% 👍 OF 2.6K
About This Game

Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

In this game, you can…

  • …rotate entire monuments to make disconnected walkways line up into a path.
  • …play inside cube-like maps where you can manipulate the whole boxed environment to connect interior paths.
  • …walk through Escher-like architecture where a camera angle change turns walls into floors and rewrites the layout.
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FEZ

93% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

In this game, you can…

  • …rotate the entire world in 90-degree steps to turn the same screen into a different set of platforms and paths.
  • …decrypt an in-game alphabet and number system from clues you find, then use it to read signs and solve later puzzles.
  • …scan QR codes, change your system date and time, and follow strange in-world guides to trigger secrets the game won't explain.
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Öoo

99% 👍 OF 6.3K
About This Game

A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

In this game, you can…

  • …play as a caterpillar made of bombs.
  • …cross gaps and climb platforms by placing a bomb, then detonating it to launch yourself.
  • …feed a fly to a frog blocking the way by using bomb movement to manipulate the environment.
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Big Walk

88% 👍 OF 3.1K
About This Game

Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game.

In this game, you can…

  • …join a full party of 12 strangers online.
  • …carry a lost friend's body across the journey as an honor guard instead of leaving them behind.
  • …get separated by distance until voices fade out, then coordinate over walkie-talkies by describing landmarks like trees.
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The Looker

97% 👍 OF 15K
About This Game

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

In this game, you can…

  • …turn a familiar maze panel into a first-person shooter sequence, then finish it like an arcade challenge.
  • …reach a final puzzle that ends the whole game as a single escalating punchline.
  • …play a sudden Snake-style arcade segment in the middle of the puzzle island.
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Tangle Tower

95% 👍 OF 6.2K
About This Game

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

In this game, you can…

  • …investigate a murder where the only "weapon" is a knife painted into the victim's unfinished portrait.
  • …show every piece of evidence to every suspect, then cross-check their reactions until their stories start contradicting each other.
  • …build a "this is suspicious because…" sentence, and make the detectives voice whatever weird combination of words you assemble.