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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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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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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.

Zen Bound 2

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A meditative puzzle game where you wrap rope around wooden and stone sculptures to paint as much of their surface as possible. Calm music and a tactile look make it a relaxing, low-stress experience.

Glass Masquerade

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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.

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.

Logic Town

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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.

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.

Auditorium

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You bend beams of light through abstract levels, dye them to match colored containers and fill them. Each filled container adds another instrument to the music, so you build the soundtrack piece by piece yourself.

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