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Moncage (2021)

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Moncage
Game
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Rotate a cube and line up the objects in its little worlds so they create paths between unrelated places. Search the scenes for photographs that reveal a story behind the levels. You can highlight relevant objects or ask for text hints when you want help without skipping directly to the next picture.
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A Fisherman's Tale (2019)

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A Fisherman's Tale
Game
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Reach into a model lighthouse and work out how its objects affect the world around you. The changing size of familiar things is part of the story told by its fisherman puppet. A VR headset is required, and the central challenge is looking at the same place from another scale.
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The 7th Guest Remake (2026)

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The 7th Guest Remake
Game
7.4/10on IGDB
Released
Explore a mansion where mechanical puzzles and ghostly reenactments tell you more about a dinner party and its guests. Pay attention to what the apparitions show you about the rooms you’ve been going through. Choose the 2026 remake for this hands-on puzzle story on a regular screen.
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Red Matter (2018)

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Red Matter
Game
6.8/10on IGDB
Released
Explore an abandoned facility in the role of an astronaut investigating a Cold War mystery. Scan and translate what you find, and use your tools to operate the machines left in the station. A VR headset is required, and getting answers depends on paying attention to your surroundings while working the controls.
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The Past Within (2022)

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The Past Within
Game
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Explore two versions of the Rusty Lake world from different times and tell the other player what you’ve found. A detail on one screen can explain what’s happening on the other, so you work out the story through conversation. You need exactly two players, each with access to the game.
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The Swapper (2013)

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The Swapper
Game
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Make copies of yourself to reach switches and then change which body you control as you explore an abandoned space station. The mechanic keeps asking you which body is doing the thinking, as the story gives that question more weight. Visual logic drives the play, with logs and observations giving the experiments context.
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The Talos Principle II (2023)

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The Talos Principle II
Game
8.7/10on IGDB
Released
Solve devices spread across an expedition site and learn why a civilization of thinking machines is investigating it. Logs and conversations give you different views of the discoveries. Save this for when you can enjoy elaborate spatial puzzles and spend longer considering what they reveal about the world.
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Portal 2 (2011)

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Portal 2
Game
9.1/10on IGDB
Released
Work through test chambers and then push into parts of Aperture that show what it was before you got there. Recordings and old spaces make the current experiments look different once you can compare them with the earlier work. The portal puzzles do most of the gating, while you can pause to read the facility itself.
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The Turing Test (2016)

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The Turing Test
Game
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
Route energy around a facility on Europa and look for what the people working there were doing. The test chambers and optional rooms put human and machine choices into a shared ethical question. Try it if you want deliberate mechanical puzzles and a story you can understand in more depth when you look beyond the obvious route.
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