Items15The creator’s order
  1. 1Portal (2007)Portal (2007) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased 10 Oct 2007The portal pair first explored in DigiPen's student game Narbacular Drop becomes a tightly paced puzzle campaign at Valve. This is the 2007 commercial descendant, rather than the original dungeon project. The pleasure is learning to think in connected spaces, then finding that those same rules can…0
  2. 2Superliminal (2019)Superliminal (2019) 8.0/10 on IGDBReleased 12 Nov 2019Albert Shih's Carnegie Mellon class assignment grew into this full commercial game about forced perspective. Pick up an object that looks enormous and it can become enormous when you put it down, making looking itself a tool. The short dreamlike campaign gives the idea a sequence of surprises and a…0
  3. 3Octodad: Dadliest Catch (2014)Octodad: Dadliest Catch (2014) 7.1/10 on IGDBReleased 30 Jan 2014The original Octodad was a DePaul student production; Dadliest Catch is Young Horses' later commercial sequel. Controlling separate, uncooperative limbs makes ordinary jobs like shopping into physical comedy, and the family story gives the awkwardness a reason to matter. Choose this version for a…0
  4. 4The Unfinished Swan (2012)The Unfinished Swan (2012) 7.7/10 on IGDBReleased 23 Oct 2012Throwing paint into an apparently blank space reveals where its walls and paths actually are. Ian Dallas's graduate project at USC became a commercial storybook adventure that keeps finding new ways to make discovery playful. The finished campaign gives those visual ideas a gentle narrative frame…0
  5. 5Perspective (2012)Perspective (2012)Released 26 Aug 2012A 2D figure moves across what your first-person camera can see. Walking around the 3D room changes which surfaces join up on the screen, letting you construct a route by looking from the right place. DigiPen's finished student game is free on Steam in a version updated for modern computers. A…0
  6. 6Distance (2018)Distance (2018) 7.8/10 on IGDBReleased 18 Sept 2018Refract's commercial successor to DigiPen's Nitronic Rush develops the flying, jumping car into an atmospheric racing platformer. Rotating onto walls and surviving hazards makes each course feel like a place to learn rather than a conventional lap race. The finished release includes a short…0
  7. 7A Story About My Uncle (2014)A Story About My Uncle (2014) 6.8/10 on IGDBReleased 28 May 2014A Södertörn University assignment to make a non-violent first-person game became the 2014 release from Gone North Games. Its energy grapple turns distant floating rocks into a route you can swing across, making traversal the main attraction. This is the rebuilt commercial adventure, not the earlier…0
  8. 8de Blob (2008)de Blob (2008) 6.6/10 on IGDBReleased 8 Jul 2008Painting a grey city back into life gives this platformer a wonderfully immediate reward for moving around. The commercial de Blob adapted a Utrecht student project into a larger, characterful adventure, rather than simply selling the original class build. Pick the 2008 game or its modern reissues…0
  9. 9SCHiM (2024)SCHiM (2024) 4.3/10 on IGDBReleased 18 Jul 2024Ewoud van der Werf's exam project grew into a full adventure about a little creature separated from its person's shadow. Hopping between shadows turns ordinary Dutch-inspired streets into routes to read, with moving objects changing what you can reach. Choose the finished 2024 game for its…0
  10. 10One Hand Clapping (2020)One Hand Clapping (2020) 6.6/10 on IGDBReleased 14 Jul 2020USC's student project became Bad Dream Games' full musical platformer, released in 2021 after its early access period. Singing or humming into a microphone changes how you solve its puzzles, so the voice input carries the game rather than serving as a party trick. You need a microphone and…0