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2013USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck verified90 % positive9.99 €

You play a character who shifts between a 3D world and a 2D shadow plane to solve puzzles. Its surreal 1920s film noir and vaudeville atmosphere and jazz score give it a distinctive mood.

  • Strong soundtrack
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Contrast special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Braid: Anniversary Edition

92 %Match

2024PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive−75 % 19.50 € 4.87 €

Brings what grabs you about Contrast: a strong soundtrack, puzzles to figure out as well as jumping and platforming.

A puzzle platformer where rewinding and bending time is the key to solving clever, mind-bending puzzles. The anniversary edition adds hand-repainted visuals, reworked audio, new puzzles and extensive developer commentary.

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Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

Arise: A Simple Story

Strong, story-driven narrative

A wordless platform adventure that tells a couple's life story through memories, from old age back to childhood. You bend time to get past obstacles, backed by a moving orchestral soundtrack.

The Mooseman

Distinctive, stylised art style

A short, atmospheric puzzle platformer in which you guide a moose-headed man through the three worlds of Finno-Ugric mythology. Its art draws on ancient ornaments and artefacts, and the puzzles revolve around shifting between worlds.

Shady Part of Me

Strong soundtrack

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you switch between a girl and her shadow, using light and shadow to escape a dreamlike world. Its painterly look and emotional story carry the experience.

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Distinctive, stylised art style

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

Braid

Strong soundtrack

A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.

Papo & Yo

Jumping and platforming

A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

Creaks

Distinctive, stylised art style

A hand-painted-looking puzzle adventure where you discover a hidden world of bird folk and living furniture monsters behind your bedroom wall. Its puzzles revolve around learning creature behavior patterns, and are fair and atmospheric with a lovely soundtrack.

Return of the Obra Dinn

Distinctive, stylised art style

As an insurance investigator, you use a magical pocket watch to relive the final moments of a ghost ship's crew and deduce the identity and fate of every sailor. Its striking 1-bit visuals and brilliant deduction design make it a one-of-a-kind detective game.

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