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2024PC, Steam Deck verified96 % positive8.79 €

A single gigantic puzzle blending picross and minesweeper, inspired by Bruegel's painting Netherlandish Proverbs. You chip away at it at a calm pace, gradually revealing a picture full of quirky scenes.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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In short: Games like Proverbs

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Proverbs special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Samorost

87 %Match

2003PC95 % positivefree

Brings what grabs you about Proverbs: puzzles to figure out, a distinctive art style and a cosy mood to unwind.

A short point-and-click puzzle adventure in which a little gnome must avert a collision threatening his home asteroid. Its surreal, handcrafted visuals and inventive click-based puzzles give it its charm.

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Distinctive, stylised art style

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Botany Manor

Puzzles and brain teasers

As retired botanist Arabella, you roam a Victorian manor and solve puzzles by piecing together notes and clues to learn what conditions let forgotten plants bloom. A calm, cozy thinking game with no combat or time pressure.

Glass Masquerade

Distinctive, stylised art style

A relaxed jigsaw-style puzzle game where you assemble glass pieces into Art Deco stained-glass pictures. Its elegant art style and calm mood make for a cozy, soothing brain-teaser.

Logic Town

Puzzles and brain teasers

A cozy logic puzzler built around Einstein (Zebra) puzzles, where solving them redecorates scenes in a seaside town. Each new location brings a fresh puzzle theme.

Sokobond

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist Sokoban-style puzzler where you slide atoms around and join them into molecules following the rules of chemical bonding. Simple rules grow into increasingly clever brain teasers.

Splice

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle game where you splice and recombine microbe-like cell strands to build a target structure in as few moves as possible. Its calm mood and clean abstract look make it relaxing yet tricky.

Mario's Time Machine

Puzzles and brain teasers

You return stolen historical artifacts to their correct eras using a time machine hub in this edutainment title. Its charm lies in learning world history almost without noticing, through gentle, low-pressure puzzles.

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