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Blue Prince: The House That Redraws Itself
A drafting roguelike wearing a country manor, and the best puzzle box in years
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Umurangi Generation: The Photography Game With Politics
A camera, a bounty list, and an apocalypse happening in the corner of every frame
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Paradise Killer: The Open-World Detective Who Can Just Accuse Anyone
Kaizen Game Works built a murder mystery with no right answer and made it mean something
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The Case of the Golden Idol: Deduction Without Hand-Holding
Color Gray Games proves the whole detective genre only ever needed nouns and a blank
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Dredge: Fishing With Something Underneath
Black Salt Games turns a cosy loop into a pressure system, one inventory square at a time
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Norco: The Southern Gothic Point-and-Click
A refinery town, a dead mother, and an adventure game that refuses to be solved
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Immortality: The FMV Game That Demands You Scrub
Sam Barlow builds a search engine out of match cuts
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UFO 50: Fifty Fake Games and One Real Argument
Mossmouth invents a console that never shipped and fills it
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Nine Sols: The Sekiro Parry in a Taopunk Frame
Red Candle Games turns deflection into a savings account
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Thank Goodness You're Here!: The Comedy of Pure Slapstick Systems
Coal Supper gives you one verb, a Yorkshire town, and a bespoke joke behind every single object in it
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Crow Country: The PS1 Survival Horror Made Now
SFB Games kept the friction that was a design choice and binned the friction that was a hardware bill
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Still Wakes the Deep: Horror on a Rig With a Scottish Accent
The Chinese Room finally gave itself verbs, and put them on an oil platform in the winter of 1975
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes: The Puzzle Box With a Memory
Simogo built a fifteen-hour labyrinth in black, white and red, and then refused to take a single note for you
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Indika: The Nun, the Devil and the Argument
A third-person adventure that hands you an experience bar for praying, then waits to see what you do with it
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Animal Well: The Metroidvania as a Locked Room
No combat, no map markers, no explanation — one man, seven years, and a world that only opens to thinking
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Pentiment: The Manuscript as Murder Mystery
Obsidian made a whodunit where the typeface is a mechanic and you never learn if you were right
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Hypnospace Outlaw: The Operating System as Level Design
A fake 1999 internet where the desktop is the dungeon and the search box is your only weapon
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Balatro: The Poker Roguelike That Ate a Year
LocalThunk built a multiplication engine and painted a deck of cards on the front
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Tunic: The Manual Is the Game
Andrew Shouldice turned copy-protection paperwork into the best progression system of the decade
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Pacific Drive: The Car as the Character
Ironwood's survival driver builds a relationship out of panel damage and a broken wiper motor
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Inscryption: The Card Game That Keeps Breaking Its Own Frame
Daniel Mullins built a deckbuilder, then built an escape room around it, then filmed someone playing it
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Signalis: The Survival Horror That Reads Like a Poem
rose-engine built a six-slot inventory and turned it into a formal constraint
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Cocoon: The Puzzle Design With No Fat On It
Jeppe Carlsen's orb game is the leanest thing on the shelf, and the leanness is the argument
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Chants of Sennaar: The Language Puzzle as Empathy Machine
Rundisc built a tower out of misunderstanding and made translation the only weapon
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Return of the Obra Dinn: The Deduction Masterpiece in Two Colours
Lucas Pope built a detective game that trusts you completely, and dithered it in one bit