VOI is a minimalistic puzzle game that explores the relationships between negative and positive space. With its calming, ambient soundtrack and sharp lines, VOI provides a meditative, sometimes challenging gaming experience.

VOI has a lot in common with tangram puzzles, where you must combine simple shapes together to create larger, more complex shapes (think making the outline of a rabbit from a bunch triangles and … Read More

Da Vinci Corde is a cute, yet complex puzzle game that asks you to piece together some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s fantastic creations. To solve each puzzle, you’ll need to find the right connections for each mechanical system by tying ropes around pulleys, wheels, and strategically placed hooks.

As you progress through Da Vinci Corde, you’ll be confronted with a variety of unique technological … Read More

She Remembered Caterpillars is a beautifully animated fungipunk fantasy adventure with inventive color-based puzzles and a narrative that explores the bond between a parent and child, with themes of love, loss and holding on.

She Remembered Caterpillars’ beautiful hand drawn world harbours some deceptively tricky puzzles, in it you control the adorable little fungi people separately, using their different colors to achieve different tasks, and … Read More

Construct is a beautiful looking first person platformer with puzzle elements, in which you attempt to escape after becoming trapped inside a computer system.

In Construct you explore the game’s beautiful cyber world, discover ‘ability orbs’ and unlock new abilities as you hunt down the sixteen ‘system core power orbs’ required to escape.  It’s primarily a platformer, but there are some puzzle elements too as … Read More

Sinner’s Sorrow is a very stylish and atmospheric 2D action adventure game in which you play as a sinner fighting for redemption against your character’s inner demons.

Sinner’s Sorrow combines dynamic combat action, platforming, puzzle solving and metroidvania elements as you explore it’s beautiful black and white world.  It’s a perilous place, but you’re armed with a sword, a shield and a selection of cool … Read More

POWER DRILL MASSACRE is an absolutely terrifying third person survival horror that draws inspiration from 80’s video nasty slasher flicks and PS1-era survival horror games to create a grimy, sinister, suspense-filled adventure that’s unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.

In POWER DRILL MASSACRE (it deserves every one of those capital letters) you take on the role of a woman who has just escaped a crash in … Read More

Mark’s Rooms is an atmospheric room escape game where you must collect items, find clues, and solve puzzles to help Mark regain his lost memories.

The demo for Mark’s Rooms presents the first room of eight and serves as the prologue to Mark’s story. The bits of scrap paper hidden throughout his bedroom reveal a sad childhood, one of neglect, abuse, and untimely death. Much … Read More

Temple of Light is a challenging Unreal Engine 4-powered first person puzzle adventure game in which you use beams of light and platforming skills to help you solve the mysteries of a lost civilization and escape an ancient pyramid.

The three puzzles available in the prototype are based around three elements, and will test your platforming ability as well as your grey matter. All the … Read More

Star Vikings is a puzzle role-playing game inspired by the incredibly addictive casual games popularized by studios like PopCap Games. In Star Vikings, you take control of an crew of intergalactic vikings on a quest to conquer the universe, one planet at a time.

Star Vikings plays a bit like a backwards Plants vs. Zombies. Instead defending various lanes against hordes of incoming … Read More

LUNA – The Shadow Dust is a gorgeous 2D point and click adventure puzzle game with high quality Studio Ghibli-esque artwork and animation, in which you take control of a boy and his cute little friend, who go on a journey to bring balance to their troubled enchanted world.

The gameplay in LUNA: The Shadow Dust is reminiscent of Machinarium or Samorost, with you … Read More

prog.1 is a 2D adventure puzzle platformer with a nice pixel art style and an intriguing story. You play as an anthropomorphic computer virus that infects and destroys everything it touches (including the platforms you stand on).

The platforming is extremely challenging at the moment, partly due to the way that blocks tend to degrade and disappear if you stand on them for too long, … Read More

Dimension Shifter is a beautiful puzzle platformer that sees you utilising environmental blocks and the ability to shift dimensions to get to the end of each puzzling stage of platformy goodness.

In Dimension Shifter you play as a test subject with special abilities that help you manipulate certain objects to help you reach the ending goal of each level. As the game progresses and the … Read More

Road to Ballhalla (previously called Roll Playing Game), is a fun Marble Madness-esque ball rolling rhythm-driven platformer in which you navigate your ball through devious mazes while being subject to taunting from ‘helpful’ in game text.

The stylish neon-filled world of Road to Ballhalla is a perilous place to explore, packed with rhythmic hazards that require you to move in sync with the … Read More

Death’s Life, a game being created by Umbu Games, is an evil point and click puzzle game that sees you playing as Death’s latest recruit and setting out devious Final Destination-esque chains of events that result in the ‘accidental’ demise of your mark.

Your goal in Death’s Life is to set up a death trap for the unsuspecting person on your death list. … Read More

Puzzle Depot, a game being created by Laughing Manatee Games, is a wonderful and inventive box pushing, bug squashing puzzle adventures with charming pixel art visuals and a surprisingly epic storyline.

In Puzzle Depot you play as a new employee to a ‘special’ science laboratory. Your job in question? Pushing and moving boxes for the other people to lazy to do so of course … Read More

A Not Very Well Written Book, a game created by SeniorX for the Global Game Jam 2016, is a tricky puzzle based game that involves you having to analyse a monsters appearance and them dispatch them with a special book of magic.

A Not Very Well Written Book tests your observation and analysis skills as you identify and dispatch a variety of monsters before … Read More

Robots In The Wild is a quirky strategy game that combines elements of Tetris and classic tower-defense games to create an entirely unique and highly challenging puzzle experience.

In Robots In The Wild, you play as as a group of robots struggling to survive in space after your ship collided with an asteroid. The central components of your ship, Heart pieces, have been flung … Read More

Rewind is a time bending first person single-player puzzle adventure in which you have the ability to record copies of yourself then rewind time and work alongside your copies co-operatively.

Set inside a Portal-esque research center, you travel between areas that are self contained puzzles.  Most of these require more than one person to solve (as you’ll need to distract guards or activate touch-pads), … Read More

Dorbea, a game created by Patch Note Studios, is a creepy first person survival horror game that constantly have you screaming for more.

You wake up in a dimly light room, with no recollection of how you got to where you are and why you are there as well. You make your way to door situated behind you and notice a flash light on … Read More

Detuned, a game jam game created by Paul Lawitzki, Chrisoph Rasulis and Benjamin Ruldolph for Glitch Jam, is a stylish 3D platformer with light puzzle elements that sees you adjusting your tuning to materialise objects.

The game takes place in a strange, desolate land. No colour in sight, only hues of black and grey resonate from the lifeless architecture before you. The building itself … Read More

Invert, a game being created by Gkxd, is a 2D mind-bending puzzle platformer that will test your patience and puzzle skills to the extreme.

The game starts out simply, using the arrow keys to move left and right and the up key to jump will help you navigate the small platforming stages. However the further you get into the game the harder and more … Read More

Take Frogger, add in a little Puyo Puyo puzzle action, wrap it in poetic overtones, and you have She Who Was Once Lost. In this straightforward puzzle jumper, players take point as a firefly fairie attempting to cross a river of adorable creatures that are more deadly than they let on. Provided with 3 lives, the player must cross the endless streams of … Read More

Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries is a 2.5D and 3D cinematic fairytale action platformer where you play as a vengeful Riding Hood adventuring through a dark and twisted world full of warped versions of your favourite fairytale characters.

It’s a pleasantly dark twist on the Red Riding Hood story, full of deranged fairytale bosses (including Pinnochio, The Pied Piper and Creeping Beauty), fast … Read More

Your characters have the ability to disconnect and reconnect at will.  When connected, one character cannot fall if the other is standing on solid ground. You can also disconnect them and re-connect them in different positions to solve some rather fiendish level … Read More

Atum is very clever first-person 2D platformer where you play the player playing the player in a platformer.  Confused?  Good!

As you play through the 2D platformer on your computer, you use real world elements to assist the player that you’re playing – like using a lighter to light up dark areas in the game.  It’s great fun experimenting with items in your environment, seeing … Read More

Inaris: The Cloud Temple is a first person poetic puzzle platformer with gorgeous graphics, an incredible amount of detail, and a wonderfully soothing soundtrack.

You venture through the game’s temple trying to solve it’s puzzles and mysteries playing as a lonely entity who can dramatically manipulate the environment.  You have the power to move certain objects, specifically columns, which you need to move to solve … Read More

Kôna is an atmospheric first-person survival exploration game set in the 1970’s where you play as a detective investigating the disappearance of his client named Hamilton, who’s gone missing along with most of the other locals.

In the finished game itself, you’ll explore vast atmospheric open levels, solve puzzles to aid your case and your survival.  You’ll use tools to help you along the way, … Read More

XING: The Land Beyond is an atmospheric first-person puzzle adventure game that utilizes the Unreal Engine 4 to great effect to create a lush and beautiful environment.

In XING: The Land Beyond you have died and your soul has been sent to the world of XING, and so you start your journey to uncover what is going on.  Gameplay is focused on exloration and puzzle … Read More

Here we have Schein, a new weird but wonderful puzzle platformer developed as the pilot indie game of Zeppelin Studio based in Austria.  The aim of the game is to find your lost child amongst the dark, folk-lore style swamp, using the elements of light, and your legendary wisp to reveal various puzzles and obstacles.

The game has a unique mechanic where certain scopes … Read More

SightLine is an adventure puzzle game which uses line of sight as a core gameplay mechanic, with items and scenery dramatically changing when you’re not looking.  An all-knowing narrator helps guide you through the disorientating, somewhat creepy game, full of visual trickery reminiscent of that seen in Antichamber.

There is a Prototype and a Playground available to download, the playground is a small test … Read More