“This is the most aggressively delightful game I've played in a long time. An hour long with great art, great music, and absolute heaps of impeccable writing. The demo is a prologue, play it!!”

“An absolutely delightful platformer that essentially plays as a 2D Super Mario Odyssey. The movement feels shockingly good”

“Minesweeper as a roguelike with lots of cool mechanical innovations and variety to make that possible”

“The most fun I've had with a dice-based roguelike and it's not close. Would be a top contender for game of the year 2024 if Balatro didn't exist”

“I'm normally not a fan of city builders but this one hooked me. Absolutely lovely aesthetic and gameplay that hews closer to a very thematic logistics puzzle than a traditional city builder”

“Rift Wizard was already my favorite traditional roguelike and the sequel is all around bigger and better. The addition of roguelike deckbuilder-esque artifacts is a huge source of new variety”

“The most compelling 3D platformer I've ever played, and I just replayed all of the 3D Mario games. Really good as a metroidvania too-- unlocking new movement abilities feels *so good*”

“The most engaging roguelike deckbuilder I’ve played in a long time. Great characters and writing on top of an extremely polished and fun core gameplay loop. Strong Hades vibes all the way down”

“The coziest game I've ever played (not just coziest puzzle game!). Awe inspiringly thorough exploration of cylinders as puzzly objects with lots of charming animation and writing thrown in”

“Absolutely packed to the gills with great content. Been number one on Steam 250's Hidden Gems chart for months and it completely deserves it”

“The best Zachlike not made by Zachtronics. Has a huge breadth of puzzles from constructing massive recursive sculptures to programming an 8-bit adder, all with the same 8 basic components.”

“Hexcells is the most polished minesweeper game out there and a great introduction to a genre that's brimming with excellent games.”

“Zelda, except set in a fake MMO. Great action rpg combat stapled to an astoundingly rigorous set of fun physics puzzles. Plus it's huge! Easily a 40+ hour game and great the whole way through”

“An absolutely joyous showcase of sokoban-based recursion. The main path through the game is very accessible but does a great job showing off all of its wonderful ideas”

“The final Zachtronics game, and it's a rad little minigame collection. Every game in here is great, 20th Century Food Court is probably my favorite of the bunch.”

“The best detective game post-Obra Dinn just got even better. Cannot recommend this one highly enough”

“Perfectly embodies its core conceit of its main character being able to see the future. Rewind time to dodge attacks, see enemy attacks before they happen, and travel back in time to any other save.”

“What if the Stanley Parable was a horror visual novel narrated by Jonathan Simms (Mr Magnus Archives himself)”

“The Zachlike that got me in to Zachlikes and still my favorite. I love the visual programming language of it. Plus manually constructing molecules is a great premise”

“I can't believe the best Slay the Spire-like I've ever played is a Touhou fangame”

“An improvement on the original Supraland in every way. If you like the idea of Portal-style physics puzzles wrapped in an open world metroidvania, you must give this one a go”

“Easily GOTY 2025. Most I’ve been sucked into a puzzle game since Void Stranger”

“UFO 50 is a triumph, a stunning tour de force of game design as an art form. Every single game here is immaculately crafted and worth your time— just make sure you can meet it on its own terms”

“It's like Tunic, except with really good sokoban-ish puzzles instead of really terrible Dark Souls-ish combat. Highly, highly recommend”

“No game has ever had as many jaw dropping mechanical epiphanies as this one does, cannot recommend it enough.”

“Rock paper scissors really makes you think”

“Elephantasy's bigger, weirder, 3D-er older brother.”

“Brick breaker bullet hell roguelike!! I love esoteric gameplay mashups and this is one is very well made”

“What if Minesweeper was a Zachlike? Instead of solving the puzzles yourself, program the computer to solve them for you”

“The Witness except if it had word puzzles instead of line puzzles and was set in the Antichamber complex. It has some of my favorite word puzzles I've ever solved”

“Very cute arcade shooter with a huge amount of visual and sound polish”

“No game has infiltrated my brain and stuck as deeply as Tux and Fanny has. I think about this game every single day”

“Extremely compelling Zachlike”

“Great collection of sudoku puzzles! If you're in the market for auto generated variant sudoku puzzles, this game is absolutely full of great ones. Solving multiple simultaneous puzzles is awesome!”

“A great follow up to a great first game with more intense puzzles and some really well designed new mechanics. Another wonderful addition to the esteemed minesweeper genre. Highly recommend!”

“Probably the most inventive puzzle game that I've ever played. The cursed aesthetic is actually a boon, it makes you forget how cursed all of the mechanics are”

“A Witness/Taiji like with a level select screen instead of an overworld. Good puzzles built around a cool and compelling set of puzzle mechanics”

“This is the most aggressively delightful game I've played in a long time. An hour long with great art, great music, and absolute heaps of impeccable writing. The demo is a prologue, play it!!”

“This game makes my brain hurt, as to be expected from the mind behind Stephen's Sausage Roll”

“Really polished little precision platformer jam packed with unique ideas. The movement feels real good!”

“An absolutely delightful platformer that essentially plays as a 2D Super Mario Odyssey. The movement feels shockingly good”

“Fantastic little Zachlike with highly polished visuals”

“The best Zachlike not made by Zachtronics. Has a huge breadth of puzzles from constructing massive recursive sculptures to programming an 8-bit adder, all with the same 8 basic components.”

“A straightforward but satisfying Sokoban-like with a really high degree of polish to go with its nice 1-bit aesthetic”

“A very rigorous exploration of a simple set of block-pushing puzzle mechanics. Super chill experience and a sizable collection of high quality puzzles. ”

“A very intense iteration on The Binding of Isaac. Lots and lots of new mechanics that all shore up weaknesses in BoI's core design, all of which are deep and unique”

“An absolute fever dream of a block pushing puzzle game. I have no idea what's going on, but the puzzles are engaging and unique. Feels like there are hidden depths that I've yet to even glimpse”

“Chill open world platformer with a really unique movement system that just feels good to skate around in.”

“Great little snack of a roguelike twin stick shooter”

“Time loop parkour roguelike-ish exploration game. Fun art style, fun movement, absolutely huge map to explore and gain mastery over”