voidmoth

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Electronic literature, tool-building, poetry, games, puzzles, &cet. 29.


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  • Petal Crash
    9.99 on steam
    This one is directly inspired by that wave of tetris-inspired vs games from the 90s (think puyo puyo, dr mario, etc). The faster you go the better you do, so it's not free of twitch reflexes, but it has a generous easy mode and a very fun (imo) puzzle mode where you're given specific board states to solve in a limited number of moves.

  • Into the Breach
    14.99 on steam
    this is like a tactics RPG roguelike? The cool thing about it is that the designers were clearly inspired by Magic The Gathering OTK puzzles or chess puzzles, so it has this feeling like every move is important and that there's always a perfect move, you just gotta find it.

  • Patrick's Parabox
    19.99 on steam
    This is sokoban in non-euclidean space. Compared to other games in this genre (looking at you stephen's sausage roll) it actually does a really good job of teaching you mechanics without wasting the moments where you realize something really clever about the mechanics!

  • Baba is You
    14.99 on steam
    I don't want to spoil this one too much, but it's sokoban calvinball. you rewrite the rules of the game, as you play it!

oh also brogue
free!
This one's a Roguelike, in that it's literally like Rogue. Unlike a lot of other games in the genre that just throw everything and the kitchen sink at you, it's built around a relatively small number of systems, there are only (!) 20 floors in a run, so it's a great beginner roguelike as well as being fun on its own

Oddly enough, my suggestion is an interactive fiction with a parser and a story. It is called, Counterfeit Monkey and in it you removes letters to words to change... pretty much everything, this game could only work as an interactive fiction. It is the first interactive fiction where I managed to solve some of the puzzles by myself, just by using the mechanics.

mixolumia is pretty cool but i dont know if it's a puzzle game exactly...

aurora hex is one that ive liked in the past, pretty chill to zone out to

into the breach gets a +1 from me too it's also free with netflix?

dream quest / slay the spire / legends of runeterra single player are also good and i kinda think theyre puzzle games?

im getting confused by the taxonomy of puzzle games lol

Depending on what you mean by puzzle, I like Two Dots a lot — it’s my go to phone game for when an audiobook alone isn’t enough to keep my brain from providing Bad Thoughts but my wrists are too busted for knitting

ad supported but in a very low-key way, has microtransactions but I’ve never done one

If you want to just fill out a bunch of logic grids:

  • Hexcells series / Squarecells / Crosscells
  • Tametsi
  • 14 Minesweeper Variants
  • Pictopix
  • All the different Cracking the Cryptic sudoku apps

If you want to fill out a bunch of logic grids, but you don’t want anyone to tell you the rules first:

  • The Witness
  • Understand
  • Taiji

If you want to earn your virtual STEM degree:

  • Basically anything from Zachtronics (their final game, Last Call BBS, is ironically a pretty good starter pack)
  • Silicon Zeroes
  • Human Resource Machine / 7 Billion Humans

If you want to make a little guy push some stuff around:

  • Stephen’s Sausage Roll
  • A Monster’s Expedition
  • Baba Is You
  • Patrick’s Parabox
  • Void Stranger
  • Corrypt
  • Helltaker
  • Pipe Push Paradise
  • Bonfire Peaks

If you want to make a big awkward guy push some stuff around:

  • Snakebird
  • Can of Wormholes

If you want to test your spatial reasoning:

  • Manifold Garden
  • Superliminal
  • The Talos Principle

If you want to solve a mystery:

  • Her Story / Immortality
  • Return of the Obra Dinn
  • The Case of the Golden Idol

If you’re nostalgic for the Nintendo DS (or missed out on that platform entirely):

  • Professor Layton series
  • Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
  • Zero Escape trilogy
  • Ace Attorney series

can't believe no one has said I Love Hue Too yet!

mobile puzzle game where geometric shapes are arranged in patterns with increasingly nuanced color gradients, then shuffled, and you put them back together. tiny one-time fee to make ads go away forever. super calming music. like playing with a fidget toy made of crystals.