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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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Logic Town

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2023PC, Steam Deck playable90 % positive9.75 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Proverbs and Systems like Proverbs.

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.

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Samorost

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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.

Gorogoa

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Gorogoa is a short, hand-drawn puzzle game where you stack, zoom and shift illustrated panels to uncover hidden connections. Its wordless tale of longing and a life's journey unfolds entirely through this inventive mechanic.

Echochrome

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A minimalist black-and-white puzzler where you rotate the camera and exploit perspective to join impossible, Escher-like structures into paths for a walking mannequin.

The Bridge

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A monochrome puzzle game in the style of M. C. Escher: you rotate the world to change gravity and guide your character through tricky hand-drawn levels to the exit door.

Hexcells Infinite

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A minimalist, calm logic puzzle on hex grids where you uncover cells purely through deduction. With 36 handcrafted puzzles plus a random generator, it offers nearly endless puzzling.

Machinarium

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A wordless point-and-click adventure following a tiny robot through a gorgeously hand-drawn, rusty machine city, packed with clever puzzles and charming pictogram storytelling. Floex's atmospheric soundtrack makes it a calm, whimsical work of art.

Lyne

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A minimalist puzzle game where you connect matching shapes with lines while filling the whole board. The simple rules grow tricky over time, all set to calming music.

Threes!

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A minimalist sliding puzzle where you push numbered tiles around a grid and merge them into multiples of three. Charming characters and simple rules make it easy to pick up but hard to master.

Splice

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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.

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