Tag: Puzzle

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Lost in Play

Lost in Play by Happy Juice Games
Links: Steam | Official Site
Social links: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Release Date: 10 Aug, 2022

ABOUT THIS GAME

Go on a feel-good adventure with a brother and sister as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, Toto and Gal must stick together and solve puzzles to journey back home. This whimsical puzzle adventure game will make you feel like you’re playing a cartoon!

Lost in Play is a journey through childhood imagination with thoughtfully crafted puzzles and colorful characters. Play as a brother and sister duo on an adventure to find their way back home. Between reality and fantasy, the siblings explore the enchanted forest of a horned beast, start a rebellion in a goblin village, and help a team of frogs free a sword from a stone.

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Prickle

Prickle by Sunbird Studio
Links: Steam | itch.io
Social links: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Release Date: TBA

ABOUT THIS GAME

Prickle is a grid-based, Sokoban-style puzzle game with a laid-back, wholesome vibe.

Your hoglets, scattered throughout the levels, stick to DadHog and to each other, forming a Tetris-like shape – a Prickle!

You need to collect all the hoglets and bring the Prickle back home. However, the more hoglets you collect, the larger and harder it is to squeeze through the narrow spaces in the hedge.

Find the right way to collect the hoglets, form your Prickle, and navigate it through the levels to reach home.

Prickle features over 40 levels across 4 seasons, each presenting different challenges and unique mechanics.

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Toodee and Topdee

Toodee and Topdee by dietzribi
Links: Steam | Official Site
Social links: Twitter | YouTube
Release Date: 4 Aug, 2021

ABOUT THIS GAME

Toodee and Topdee is a 2D Platformer and a Top-Down Puzzler hybrid.

Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives, and watch how the game bends to the rules of the current genre.
Solve mind-melting puzzles!
Overcome hard-as-nails challenges in the precision platforming sections of the game.
If you’re having a hard time, you can modify some of the game rules in the difficulty settings.
Meet strange friends on your quest to find the missing semicolon and return the balance to the universe.
But also… Defeat huge BOSSES!
Afraid to go alone? You can play with a friend in the local CO-OP mode.
And don’t tell anybody… There are secrets…

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In Sound Mind

In Sound Mind by We Create Stuff
Links: Steam | Official Site
Social links: Twitter | Facebook
Release Date: 29 Sep, 2021

ABOUT THIS GAME

As you awake in the corridors of an inexplicable building, you find the environment takes on a life of its own and leads you to discover a series of victims, all exposed to the same experimental chemical. In your search for answers, bizarre visions emerge and introduce a host of imposing horrors…and a cat named Tonia.

From the creators of the cult classic Nightmare House 2 comes In Sound Mind, a witty first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles and unique boss fights. Traverse a series of unsettling memories as you journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.

Features:
* A new survival horror experience from the creators of the legendary Nightmare House 2. We Create Stuff, the team behind one of highest-rated mods of all time returns with an unexpected spin on the horror genre.

* Experience a series of haunting memories. Journey through a progression of unsettling stories, each with unique puzzles, mechanics, weapons, and boss fights.

* Overcome a cast of terrors. Confront those who stalk you in a series of daunting boss fights and learn how to defeat them by solving mind-bending puzzles.

* An eerie soundtrack by The Living Tombstone. The internet icon lends his distinct sound to this next generation psychological thriller, with a distinctive song for each story.

* Unexpect the expected. Explore an imaginative and disorienting narrative, featuring sentient mannequins, a feline companion, and much more. And yes, you can pet the cat.

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Woodways

Woodways by Sen Games
Links: Steam | itch.io
Social links: Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
Release Date: 2 Apr, 2018

ABOUT THIS GAME

Woodways is a puzzle game in which you control all characters at once. Guide different animals to their destination, each with its own attributes and ways to interact with the environment. Travel through various areas with new mechanics and visuals, filled with all sorts of combinations of layouts and characters.
Woodways was designed as an introduction to the Puzzle genre, starting out with a friendly difficulty curve and slowly ramping up the challenge.

Key features:
* Discover over 50 levels of puzzles ranging from simple to complex in an expanding world map.
* Control 3 types of animals, each with its own properties and interactions.
* New mechanics are introduced at each new area, such as slippery ice and teleport pads.
* Is there another game in which you can play as a buffalo, a fox AND a duck at the same time? Yeah, didn’t think so.

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Press Ctrl

Press Ctrl by Idan Rooze
Links: Steam | itch.io
Social links: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube
Release Date: 16 Mar, 2021

ABOUT THIS GAME

This Game Can Be Annoying
Press Ctrl is a simple but infuriating mind-bending meta-adventure. You control a character, that controls another character, that controls another character, that controls another character. Press Ctrl to win.
An Experiment in Input Systems
The game was originally developed during GMTKJam 2020 based on the theme “Out of Control” and was ranked the #1 most original in the event out of more than 5.4K submissions. This new version features Steam achievements, as well as a fourth, never-before-seen level.

Features:
Unique Inception-style puzzle mechanic
Weird thumb creatures
Four deceptively-simple levels of increasing difficulty
Seven Steam Achievements

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Into The Maze

Into The Maze by Nadav Hekselman
Links: Steam | Official Website
Social links: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Release Date: TBA

ABOUT THIS GAME

A giant maze like structure is discovered on Mars. The player is a veteran astronaut sent to the red planet with his team of researchers to unravel the secrets of the maze. Who built it? what was its purpose? and why was it abandoned? these are some of the answers the player will discover… Their mission is to solve the maze’s puzzles and more importantly, find and rescue their son, lost within it.

Into The Maze is an adventure game about exploring and solving puzzles within a mysterious alien maze. The player controls a small robotic drone, the Nomad, to help him navigate the environment, overcome obstacles and solve puzzles. The Nomad has special abilities and features to help the player in their quest such as accessing unreachable places, traversing dangerous areas and a tractor beam to interact with the maze’s contraptions.

Following the footsteps of classic science fiction pieces such as Solaris and The Man In The Maze, the game features a deep story for an adult audience. With 100% non-violent game-play and stunning 3D graphics in low-poly style, Into The Maze is inspired by puzzle games such as Portal and The Witness.

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The Office Quest

The Office Quest by 11Sheep
Links: Steam | Google Play | App Store | Official Site
Release Date: Mobile – Apr 2017 | PC – 25 May, 2018

ABOUT THIS GAME

The Office Quest is a casual point & click adventure game for those who cannot stay in the office any longer, full of visual humor, puzzles, riddles, and earnest adults wearing fluffy onesies because why not.

You have a boring job, clicking the same key on the same keyboard at the same desk every day of every week.

Then one day something strange and magical happens, and you really, really need to discover what’s going on – and for that, you need to slip away of your post and leave the grey abyss they call the office…

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NeonBall

NeonBall by Retrom
Links: NewGrounds
Social links: Facebook
Release Date: 30 Aug, 2013

ABOUT THIS GAME

NeonBall is a puzzle-arcade game that takes you to the near future, where energy resources are rare, and the only place humanity can find energy and avoid living in the darkness – is in the glorious Neon-City.
It was decided that no man can use energy without proving his worth, for there is no power that can be handled without care.

For that – a test was invented by the E.N.R – Energy National Resources.
That test, was NeonBall.

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Limos’ Lair

Limos’ Lair by Oleg Fedotov
Links: Steam | itch.io
Social links: Facebook | YouTube
Release Date: 7 Nov, 2023

ABOUT THIS GAME

Collect all the abilities of Limos’ Lair inhabitants and free the Lair of its curse. Challenging puzzles, enemies, and traps will be awaiting you on your path, but don’t be afraid and follow a mysterious orb of light that will guide you through your journey.
GRAPPLE HOOK MECHANICS
Use your tongue as a grappling hook or a weapon to navigate your path.

POWERS
Consume your enemies to steal their abilities.
Watch your enemies to find out what special powers they possess.

ITEMS
Find useful items on your journey.
Some of them will help you fight enemies and some will allow you to access previously unavailable areas.

OPEN WORLD
You can explore new areas in any order you like.

GAME FEATURES:
* Consume enemies to gain their abilities.
* Use your frog-like tongue as a grappling hook or as a weapon.
* Explore the world, unlock new paths and solve puzzles by using different acquired powers.
* Find secrets and complete challenges.