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Outer Wilds (2019)
8.9/10on IGDB
Released
Follow clues from one planet to another and translate what the people who came before you left behind. The ship’s rumor log links locations and flags leads, while you work out what those discoveries have to do with the time loop. Leave yourself room to test a theory during another trip.
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Blue Prince (2025)
8.7/10on IGDB
Released
Draft a new set of rooms as you explore the manor, then read letters, diagrams, and other evidence that puts the estate’s history in order. Each day gives you a different chance to reach the rooms you need. Jot down recurring names and symbols so you can recognize them when they appear somewhere else.
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Chants of Sennaar (2023)
8.6/10on IGDB
Released
Learn to read the languages of a divided tower by watching people use words and comparing symbols with what you see. The journal gives you pictures to match with your guesses and confirms groups you’ve worked out. Understanding a line can change how you read an entire encounter between the tower’s communities.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (2024)
8.9/10on IGDB
Released
Read notes, posters, and film references in a strange hotel while you solve its locks and machines. You’ll keep finding reasons to reconsider who brought you there and what you’ve been shown. The developer offers a printable notebook if you want a place for recurring dates, names, and shapes.
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Heaven's Vault (2019)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Translate inscriptions as an archaeologist and compare the words you’ve already seen with new ones. What you think they say changes what you infer about the people who left them and the missing colleague you’re trying to find. The game records discoveries and lets you revisit some early translations with better information.
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Riven (2024)
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Watch how island machinery, symbols, and customs fit together as you go in search of Catherine. A clue from a living space can explain why a mechanism works the way it does and what people were using it for. This is the 2024 remake, with rebuilt environments and some reworked puzzles worth approaching afresh.
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The Forgotten City (2021)
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
Repeat a day in an ancient settlement and use what you learn from each resident to try something different on the next loop. Conversations and exploration can put a new meaning on a choice you saw earlier. The fun is knowing enough to change how the day ends.
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Myst (2020)
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Use books to reach other Ages and work out how the structures in each world function. The things you find help you judge two brothers’ conflicting accounts. The current remake’s regular-screen mode works without a headset, and playing with randomized puzzles gives returning players a different solve.
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Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)
9.0/10on IGDB
Released
Walk through the last moments of people aboard a ship and use voices, clothing, and the crew register to figure out how the events connect. The book holds a manifest, pictures, and the fates you’ve entered. You make faster progress once one person’s identity starts explaining someone else’s place in the ship’s story.
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The Séance of Blake Manor (2025)
7.4/10on IGDB
Released
Spend your limited time at a remote manor talking to guests and investigating their rooms. Put evidence into the notebook to connect what happened in the past with the séance people have come to attend. Check the clock before following every lead, since the timing of your investigation can affect what you discover.
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TR-49 (2026)
Released
Cross-reference books, letters, and journals in an old machine as you try to identify one missing book. A voice at the other end changes what it tells you as the search progresses. Expect substantial reading and listening, with the links among the texts gradually exposing the people who built the archive.
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Her Story (2015)
7.8/10on IGDB
Released
Type a phrase into a police database to bring up interviews about a missing husband. Follow the woman’s choice of words and use an unexpected detail to form your next search. You assemble the story from short, spoken clips whose order depends on what you notice.
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Immortality (2022)
8.2/10on IGDB
Released
Look through the footage of three films tied to a vanished actor. Match a face or an object to jump to another clip, then compare what happened on-screen with what you see between takes. You’ll do more watching and scrubbing than reading, and a familiar image can lead somewhere you haven’t considered.
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Telling Lies (2019)
6.5/10on IGDB
Released
Search transcribed conversations from a cache of recordings, then compare what four people say in private. The records often show only one side of a call, so finding the other recording can change what a sentence means. Expect to scrub footage and revisit moments.
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Unheard (2019)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Replay conversations and move between rooms on a floor plan to hear how the same event sounds from different places. Determine who was speaking and how their movements fit the bigger picture. This one asks you to listen more than read, and you can replay a line you think you missed.
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The Roottrees Are Dead (2025)
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
Search periodicals, the fictional web, and family records to build a family tree. A name or date can lead to a picture, a relative, or a relationship you hadn’t realized was important. It’s a reading-heavy puzzle where the family story comes from the work of assembling it.
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Hypnospace Outlaw (2019)
8.8/10on IGDB
Released
Search a fictional late-’90s internet for links, usernames, and posts the people in it would rather keep buried. Start as a moderator and work back through connections among the users and the company behind them. Get comfortable reading a busy in-game browser, where a stray spelling or name can point to the next page.
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Stories Untold (2017)
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Work through four accounts using equipment such as a text adventure terminal and a radio. Instructions and old interfaces are clues in their own right, and the episodes begin to explain one another as the pieces accumulate. This is a short way to try puzzles built around handling the things that carry a story.
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Observation (2019)
7.5/10on IGDB
Released
Play the space station’s AI and switch among cameras and other systems to help an astronaut work out what happened. Use control panels and stored records to piece together the station’s situation. You can inspect from several angles, so an apparently ordinary room can look different once you know what to watch for.
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Tacoma (2017)
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
Follow the crew of a space station through recorded scenes and rewind to catch what someone else was doing at the same time. Reading some of their private messages puts a different light on what they did together. The playback is your main puzzle tool, with the focus on where to stand and whom to follow.
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Gone Home (2013)
7.4/10on IGDB
Released
Open drawers and doors in a family house, check where its inhabitants left things, and put the notes you find into context. Small discoveries open up new places to search. This is a light puzzle choice for a reader who wants to work out a family story by being observant.
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