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Maxwell's puzzling demon

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

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Dungeon and Puzzles

94% 👍 OF 234
About This Game

Dungeon and Puzzles is a dungeon adventure themed Sokoban game. The movement and direction are restricted, and the adventurer's ability can be changed by equipment at hand. Think through every step, destroy every monster and find a way to the end of the dungeon where the treasure awaits.

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Yugo Puzzle

99% 👍 OF 334
About This Game

Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.

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Patrick's Parabox

99% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

In this game, you can…

  • …push a box into itself, push it out of itself, and walk out of a box while still remaining inside it.
  • …create loops where box A is inside box B is inside box C is inside box A again, then use the cycle to move things.
  • …turn paradoxes into the actual solution, including puzzles where you use infinity as a tool you can manipulate.
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Handshakes

99% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.

In this game, you can…

  • …use a severed hand as a movable box while you grow a new one back.
  • …cut off a hand, leave it holding a door open, then keep solving the level with your handless body.
  • …share controls with another person, one on WASD and one on arrow keys, and coordinate both bodies to make the hands meet.
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Isles of Sea and Sky

93% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.

In this game, you can…

  • …throw a snowball to make ice non-slippery, reach a water elemental, then turn it into fire to melt blocked paths.
  • …undo a single move, reset a whole room, and mess with boxes that defy time so you can unwind actions you already did.
  • …collect enough gems to awaken an island's divinity, which spawns new creatures across the world and makes previously impossible puzzles solvable.
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Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

96% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

In this game, you can…

  • …get a pickaxe, mine straight through a wall, stumble into a glitch room, then get teleported back to the crossroads.
  • …make bunnies meet up and have babies, then figure out how to create those meetups across the map.
  • …solve puzzles where your moves in one area affect another, including moving bunnies between levels to set up a capture.
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Hexologic

96% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Immerse yourself in the beautiful world of Hexologic. Solve challenging, yet rewarding puzzles, listen to relaxing music, dive deep into the game’s atmosphere and fall in love in with Sudoku again!

In this game, you can…

  • …place dots in one colored hex and secretly fill an unclickable linked hex that collects dots from that color.
  • …click one colored hex and change every hex of that color at once.
  • …use fixed-number hexes as anchors, including tiles that can exceed the normal 3-dot limit.
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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

95% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

In this game, you can…

  • …build a snowman, name it, dress it, and hug it.
  • …sit on a bench, lean into it, and slip into an alternate version of the park where your snowmen show up as single snowballs.
  • …revisit the garden after finishing, taking reopened routes as puzzles reshape around your earlier progress.