Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds places the player in a small solar system that resets every 22 minutes when the sun explodes. Progress comes from knowledge rather than upgrades, since nothing carries over between loops except what the player has learned.
Puzzle games
5 games in the database.
Puzzle games
Portal 2
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game built around a device that creates linked portals on flat surfaces. Chambers are solved by redirecting momentum and light, and a separate campaign adds two-player puzzles with their own dialogue.
Return of the Obra Dinn
Return of the Obra Dinn is a detective puzzle in which the player identifies the fate of everyone aboard a lost ship. A watch shows the last moment of a dead crew member, and names have to be worked out from context.
Shil
Shil is a VR puzzle and horror game set inside a fractured subconscious, drawn in two flat tones that switch as the world reshapes. Players carry a slingshot and a magnet, and take directions from an AI that acts as their guide.
Unpacking
Unpacking is a puzzle game about emptying boxes and arranging belongings in a series of rooms. There are no timers or scores, and where objects end up tells the story of the person who owns them.