Puzzle games

ANIMAL WELL

The reward is a secret you notice in a map you already walked.

Buckshot Roulette

A round is a bet. Keep Talking shares the table tension.

Dataminers

Inscryption

Most deckbuilders iterate a shop. Inscryption iterates the contract with the player.

Into the Breach

A turn is a chess problem. The city is the HP bar, and the Vek are a schedule.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

The bomb stays on one screen and the manual stays in someone else's hands.

Martha's Dolls 2

MergeCaster

Mini Motorways

A run is a city. Mini Metro is the cousin; Factorio is the distant factory that never wants you to fold the map. The pleasure is a colour you failed to connect before the houses multiplied.

Minit

The timer is the level design. Distance is measured in seconds, so a shortcut is worth more than a weapon upgrade. Nothing is randomised: the same sixty seconds are there every time, waiting to be spent better.

Outer Wilds

Death is a schedule. The sun is the clock, and the save is what you understood about a planet you will see again in twenty-two minutes.

Parasomnia

PegPot

Return of the Obra Dinn

You stop a moment, write a name you earned, and the crew list is the only thing left to finish.

shapez

It teaches factory thinking without a combat layer or a grim theme.

shapez 2 - Factory

A factory you cannot finish. You belt shapes through cutters and painters, then you stack another floor, and the manifold is still there the next morning.