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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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The Bridge

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2013USK 0PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified87 % positive9.99 €

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

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.

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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.

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.

Puzzle Agent

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FBI agent Nelson Tethers solves Layton-style logic puzzles while unraveling an odd, faintly creepy mystery involving gnomes in a snowy Minnesota town. Graham Annable's scratchy hand-drawn art and deadpan humor define its charm.

Puzzle Agent 2

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Telltale's puzzle adventure, drawn in Graham Annable's distinctive sketchy style, sends FBI puzzle investigator Nelson Tethers back to eerie Scoggins. Logic brainteasers drive a quirky, unsettling mystery full of deadpan humor.

Kami

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You fold coloured paper to fill the screen, aiming to solve each puzzle in as few moves as possible. It looks minimal, yet perfecting each level rewards surprisingly deep thought.

Nuts

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You watch a squirrel through surveillance cameras and work out where it hides its stash. It's an unusual detective puzzle built on observing, deducing and placing cameras, wrapped in a mysterious mood.

A Little to the Left

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A relaxing puzzler where you sort, stack and align household objects until everything looks just right. A mischievous cat adds playful humor and some unexpected puzzle twists.

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