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02 Nonograms 22 Cover

2021 · PC

Nonograms 22

100%

A jam packed nonograms game with beautiful pixel art and a slick UI. Over 216 puzzles to solve, achievements and a relaxing audio soundtrack wrapped up in 20+ hours of gameplay!

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
05 Sniks Cover

2019 · PC, iOS

Sniks

97%

Are they caterpillars? Are they worms? They’re Sniks! Multicoloured little snakes, hungry for fruits. Some of them are into strawberries, others into pears and all the other good stuff. There’s only one problem: They keep getting in one another‘s way while eat...

  • Puzzles
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09 Depixtion Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Depixtion

92%

Welcome to Depixtion, a relaxing puzzle game where you create beautiful works of art using logic. Based on the popular Picross series, Depixtion blends color mixing mechanics with the rules of nonograms to create a uniquely colorful experience.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
11 Piczle Cross Adventure Cover

2020 · Switch, PC

Piczle Cross Adventure

92%

Piczle Cross Adventure takes the classic nonogram logic-puzzle and turns it into something never before experienced in the genre: a story-driven, RPG-style 2D graphical adventure! Follow our heroes Score-chan, Gig and professor Matrix as they tackle their most...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
12 Picross S6 Cover

2021 · Switch

Picross S6

92%

The 6th Picross in the S Series is perfect for a relaxing puzzle challenge! Picross is a picture crossword puzzle game where you follow hint numbers to complete a picture. With simple, easy-to-follow rules, it's a game anyone can play!

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
14 Cinicross Cover

2026 · Linux, PC

Cinicross

92%

CiniCross is a roguelike puzzle game set in a dark fantasy universe. Solve increasingly difficult nonogram puzzles, choose your path through a tree-like dungeon, and adapt your strategy using artifacts and items with unique effects. Each room is a new puzzle,...

  • Puzzles
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15 Nonograms Pro Cover

2019 · PC

Nonograms Pro

92%

Nonograms Pro is an excellent Windows 10 application to solve logic puzzles also known as Griddlers, Hanjie, Picross, Japanese Crosswords, Japanese Puzzles, Pic-a-Pix and other names. The goal is to find out the position of black blocks using hints. A correct...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
18 Picross DS Cover

2007 · NDS

Picross DS

76%

Fill in squares using simple hints to reveal the hidden picture. Players need both puzzle-solving skills and creativity to earn a picture reward. Each puzzle has a sequence of numbers written in the margins of each column and each row. Those numbers show how...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
22 Paint it Back Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Paint it Back

76%

The art has disappeared from the gallery! Can you paint it back? Recreate lost works of pixel art using logic as your paintbrush. Solve paintings like "Enormous Ant Goes Sightseeing" and "Satan is My Neighbor" to win achievements and restore the gallery to its...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
26 Picross e Cover

2011 · 3DS

Picross e

76%

Use numbers as hints to complete illustrations in this series of "picture crossword puzzles", which Nintendo has been developing as its own brand of game software since 1995.

  • Puzzles
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28 Color Cross Cover

2008 · NDS, PC, iOS

Color Cross

76%

Color Cross is a challenging puzzle game where the goal is to uncover the hidden picture by applying the right color to the appropriate square. Utilizing the familiar "paint by numbers" picture logic puzzle mechanic, completing a grid will reveal a portion of...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
36 Pixoji Cover

2017 · Android, browser

Pixoji

76%

A hidden-picture puzzle game incorporating elements of nonograms, minesweeper, and other logic puzzles.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
45 Nonogram Galaxy Cover

2017 · Android, iOS

Nonogram Galaxy

76%

The goal is to find out which of the squares should be painted (or left blank), to form a figure, which will emerge when the hobby is solved correctly. Each number, on top of each column and to the left of each row, indicates how many squares must be filled in...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
51 Christmas Griddlers Cover

2021 · PC

Christmas Griddlers

76%

Christmas Griddlers is many great prizes on this magic night. The most magical night of the year. It's coming... RIGHT NOW! Today you have a unique opportunity to feel the atmosphere of great Christmas time! Start your jolly adventure with Christmas Griddlers...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
52 Nono Pixie Cover

2019 · C64

Nono Pixie

76%

A collection of 100 Nonograms (Picross puzzles) originally created for the RGCD 2019 16kb C64 cartridge game jam with additional content (manual, etc.) The puzzles can be played in any order and can be filtered by theme or played in random order.

  • Puzzles
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56 Hungry Cat Nonogram Cover

2012 · Android, iOS

Hungry Cat Nonogram

76%

Simple rule: complete the grid accordingly with colors and discover the picture that hides beneath. Sounds easy? Not really! Each level is a real brain-teaser in which you will have to use logic and ingeniosity to complete larger paints. If you like to challen...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
66 Pixelogic Cover

2009 · Android, Mac, PC

Pixelogic

76%

Pixelogic is a fun and challenging puzzle game where you use logic to reveal a hidden picture made of colored cells. Like a mixture between sudoku and minesweeper, numeric hints are used to uncover a pixelated surprise. Pixelogic is based on a Japanese logic...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
67 Pixelo Cover

2014 · Android, browser, iOS

Pixelo

76%

Solve picross puzzles free online and challenge your logic with 100+ pic-a-pix levels. Starting with easy nonograms, this classic pen and paper game becomes gradually challenging... and extremely addicting. Believe it or not, you are going to replay these boar...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
72 Kubits Gallery Cover

2024 · Mac, Switch, PC

Kubits Gallery

76%

Kubits Gallery is a logic game for casual players where you will have to solve nonogram grids to repaint the vanished paintings inside museums around the world. Solve puzzles at your own pace more than 120 levels in various fictional galleries.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
73 Pikubo Cover

2024 · Android, iOS

Pikubo

76%

Dive into the delightful world of Pikubo, a captivating puzzle game that brings the excitement of cubic nonograms to your mobile device. With a unique twist on a beloved classic, Pikubo challenges you to carve out shapes from a larger cube by removing unnecess...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
77 Crossybara Cover

2022 · PC

Crossybara

76%

Small-Leaf the Capybara lost the fruit he was going to bring to the hot spring to stack ontop of his head! can you help him scavenge for the lost fruit and save the day? Crossybara: Nonogram Slam! is a new take on the regular Nonogram/Picross puzzle, Instead o...

  • Puzzles
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79 Rayman Lum'o'Grams Cover

Year unknown · PC

Rayman Lum'o'Grams

76%

Rayman Lum'o'Grams is a puzzle fan game for PCs running Microsoft Windows currently in development by Rayman Universe, or RUNI. The game belongs to the Picross/Nonograms genre and uses both its own and assets of most 2D projects from Rayman series, with the e...

  • Puzzles
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83 Logi Box Cover

2017 · browser

Logi Box

76%

Logi Box is a clone of Nonograms/Picross published by DAN-BALL. In addition to the ten built-in puzzles, players can create their own puzzles and download puzzles shared by other players on the website.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
89 PicOHRoss Cover

2017 · PC

PicOHRoss

76%

Use computer-like logic to conquer fiendish puzzles! Can your soft human brain handle it? Probably not. One of the games included in 1999: Megallennium 6-in-1 Mega Cart.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
92 Turn It On! Cover

2018 · Android, iOS

Turn It On!

75%

Turn It On! is a collection of black boxes, where your task is to guess the mechanics behind. According to the played setting, you will use buttons, switches, wheels, knobs, handles, cogs, a handful of meters, displays, etc. You will need to recognize the mach...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
93 Imagine Earth Cover

2021 · Linux, Switch, PC

Imagine Earth

74%

In Imagine Earth, players must protect and nurture a fledgeling space colony while wrestling against the forces of corporate greed and climate change. Establish trade, research new technologies, form alliances and wage economic warfare in a real-time battle fo...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
96 Pucchin Puzzle Cover

2010 · Mobile

Pucchin Puzzle

71%

Pucchin Puzzle provides a variation on the nonogram puzzle genre. Players control a square-shaped dog on a grid; players need to mark specific squares in the grid to reveal pixel-art pictures, following hints on the top and left sides of the screen. The game's...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
100 Nonogram Maker Cover

Year unknown · browser

Nonogram Maker

71%

A Nonogram is a grid-based puzzle where the player must solve challenges by filling in squares to reveal hidden images. Nonogram Maker allows you to create, share, and play these puzzles with your friends! Featuring: Custom-Sized Grids, simple code sharing puz...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
102 Plants vs. Zombies Cover

2009 · Android, Mac, PC

Plants vs. Zombies

66%

Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game in which players protect their suburban home from waves of approaching zombies by placing various plants on a grid-based lawn. Each plant has a unique defensive function, from shooting projectiles to blocking or explo...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
103 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

66%

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
106 Whirly Word Cover

2011 · iOS

Whirly Word

51%

A fantastic new word game, with over 7,500 puzzles. Don't worry about getting stuck, with a built-in dictionary players can look up definitions while playing. Challenge your vocabulary prowess and play until you win!

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
107 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

50%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
108 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

50%

Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by w...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
109 BioShock Cover

2007 · Mac, PC, X360

BioShock

50%

BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting n...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
111 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

50%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

  • Puzzles
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112 Tomb Raider Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Tomb Raider

50%

Tomb Raider explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark his...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
114 Dishonored Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Dishonored

50%

Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
115 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

50%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
116 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

50%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
117 The Walking Dead Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Walking Dead

50%

The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series, the game consists of...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
120 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

50%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
121 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

50%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
122 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

50%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
123 Half-Life 2: Episode Two Cover

2007 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

50%

Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a first-person shooter set in the aftermath of the Citadel's destruction. Players control Gordon Freeman as he and Alyx Vance travel through forests and underground tunnels toward a resistance base, facing Combine forces and new ene...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
124 Shadow of the Colossus Cover
50%

An open-world action/adventure game in which a young wanderer, along with a stolen magical sword and his steed companion, trespasses a cursed land, makes a deal with an ancient being to bring a sacrificial victim back to life, and sets off to fulfill his end o...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
125 Dead Space Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Dead Space

50%

Dead Space is a 2008 science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in cont...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
126 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

50%

The second entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 2 is a narrative-focused third-person psychological survival horror game with emphasis on combat, exploration and puzzle-solving elements which follows James Sunderland, a man who receives a letter, se...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
127 BioShock 2 Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

BioShock 2

50%

BioShock 2 is the second game of the BioShock series and the sequel to BioShock. It continues the grand storyline of the underwater metropolis Rapture. BioShock 2 capitalizes and improves upon the high-quality effects, unique gameplay elements, and immersive a...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
128 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Cover

2017 · Stadia, Mac, Switch 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

50%

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the first game of the Resident Evil series to switch from 3rd-person to fully 1st-person perspective. A complete refresh of gameplay systems simultaneously propels the survival horror experience to another level. It is as much hor...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
129 God of War Cover

2005 · PS2

God of War

50%

God of War is an action-adventure hack-and-slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). Initially launched for the PlayStation 2, the game stands as the first instalment in the God of War series and the...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
131 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Cover

2011 · Mac, PC, PS3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

50%

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team breaks in and kills the scientists you were hired to protect, every...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
133 Mirror's Edge Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Mirror's Edge

50%

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gamepl...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
134 Tetris Cover

1989 · NES

Tetris

50%

Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s. Players arrange falling pieces made of four connected blocks, called tetrominoes, into complete horizontal lines within a rectangular playfield. Completed lines...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
135 Battlefield 4 Cover

2013 · PC, PS3, PS4

Battlefield 4

50%

Battlefield 4 is the genre-defining action blockbuster created by Dice, and made from moments that blur the line between game and glory, moments found only in Battlefield. Go to Boot Camp to learn the basics of Battlefield 4's engaging single player and intens...

  • Puzzles
  • Strategy
137 Fallout 2 Cover

1998 · Mac, PC

Fallout 2

50%

A turn-based tactical Western RPG in which the Chosen One is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to locate and retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit for their famine-stricken tribe, while coming into contact through branching dialogue trees...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
139 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

50%

Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and tra...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
143 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

50%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
145 Papers, Please Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Papers, Please

50%

The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
147 Prey Cover

2017 · PC, PS4, XONE

Prey

50%

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
149 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

50%

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
150 Resident Evil 4 Cover

2023 · Mac, PC, PS4

Resident Evil 4

50%

Resident Evil 4 is a remake of the 2005 original Resident Evil 4 reimagined for 2023 to bring state-of-the-art survival horror. Resident Evil 4 preserves the essence of the original game, while introducing modernized gameplay, a reimagined storyline, and vivid...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
151 Resident Evil 2 Cover

1998 · DC, NGC, PC

Resident Evil 2

50%

Resident Evil 2 is a sequel to the first Resident Evil title. Like the previous game in the series, Resident Evil 2 is a 3D action-adventure using three-dimensional polygon characters over two-dimensional pre-rendered backgrounds, with the action viewed throug...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
152 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

50%

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided directly follows the aftermath of the Aug Incident, a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over their minds and bodies, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents. The year is now 2...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
155 Silent Hill Cover

1999 · PS1, PS3, PSP

Silent Hill

50%

Silent Hill is the first installment in the Silent Hill series of psychological survival horror video games. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the main character Harry Mason is an average man. The gameplay...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
156 SuperHot Cover

2016 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

SuperHot

50%

Superhot is an independent first-person shooter built around a single core mechanic: time only moves when the player moves. Without health regeneration or ammo drops, players must navigate through enemies using improvised tactics, grabbing weapons from fallen...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
157 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

50%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
158 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

50%

A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Kati...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
161 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

50%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
163 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

50%

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
164 DmC: Devil May Cry Cover

2013 · PC, PS3, X360

DmC: Devil May Cry

50%

DmC: Devil May Cry is the fifth game in the hack-and-slash third-person action series and the first not largely developed by Capcom. This title is a reimagining of the series, with the same protagonist Dante, but set in an alternate universe. The Dante in this...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
166 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

50%

Abzu is an exploration game where you are a lone diver in a lush ocean world. The diver descends deeper and deeper into the depths, where she will encounter majestic creatures, discover ancient secrets, and search for her true purpose. Abzu roughly translates...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
168 Resident Evil Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS3

Resident Evil

50%

Hailed by many as a masterpiece, this remake of the first entry in the long-running Resident Evil series is now playable in HD. Experience true terror in this genre-launching survival horror classic. The year is 1998. The Bravo Team of S.T.A.R.S., an elite sp...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
169 Tomb Raider Cover

1996 · DOS, N64, PC

Tomb Raider

50%

Tomb Raider is a 3D action game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The game follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures. The objective of Tomb Raider is to guide Lara through a se...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
170 The Talos Principle Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Talos Principle

50%

The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
171 To the Moon Cover

2011 · Android, Linux, Mac

To the Moon

50%

Join Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts as they enter a patient named Johnny's mind on his death bed to grant his final request. Watch, interact, and change the past as Johnny's life unfolds before you and takes you on a magical journey inside one's head that asks the...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
172 Every 5x5 Nonogram Cover

2025 · browser

Every 5x5 Nonogram

49%

A realtime, collaborative web game. Players were asked to complete all 24,976,511 solvable 5x5 nonogram puzzles. Every puzzle had a unique solution and required no guessing. Solving a puzzle completed it for everyone else. All puzzles were finished on August 1...

  • Puzzles
173 It Takes Two Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

It Takes Two

39%

It Takes Two is a cooperative action-adventure game designed exclusively for two players, playable in local split-screen or online. Players control Cody and May, a married couple transformed into dolls, as they travel through fantastical environments based on...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
174 Doom Cover

2016 · PC, PS4, XONE

Doom

35%

Developed by id software, the studio that pioneered the first-person shooter genre and created multiplayer Deathmatch, Doom returns as a brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter experience. Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid...

  • Puzzles
175 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

35%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

  • Puzzles
176 Mass Effect 3 Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Mass Effect 3

27%

Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing game in which Commander Shepard leads a final campaign against the Reapers, a machine race that has invaded Earth and is conquering civilizations across the galaxy. Players recruit squad members from various species and...

  • Strategy
177 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

27%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

  • Strategy
180 StarCraft Cover

1998 · Mac, PC

StarCraft

27%

StarCraft is a real-time strategy game set in a distant sector of the Milky Way galaxy in the 26th century. Players command one of three species across separate campaigns: the Terrans, resourceful human colonists cut off from Earth; the Zerg, an insectoid swar...

  • Strategy
184 Dragon Age: Inquisition Cover

2014 · PC, PS3, PS4

Dragon Age: Inquisition

27%

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a role-playing game and the third main game in the Dragon Age series. It is set in the Thedas continent, the same fantasy world as the two previous games. It consist of two large countries: Ferelden (from Dragon Age: Origins) and Orl...

  • Strategy
185 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

27%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

  • Strategy
186 L.A. Noire Cover

2011 · PC, PS3, Steam VR

L.A. Noire

27%

L.A. Noire is a neo-noir detective action-adventure video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was initially released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms on 17 May 2011; a Microsoft Windows port was later released on 8 Nove...

  • Strategy
189 Hearthstone Cover

2014 · Android, Mac, PC

Hearthstone

27%

Hearthstone is a free-to-play digital collectible card game set in the Warcraft universe. Originally subtitled Heroes of Warcraft, the game features turn-based one-on-one matches where players build 30-card decks and select heroes from eleven classes, each wit...

  • Strategy
191 Cities: Skylines Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Cities: Skylines

27%

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balanc...

  • Strategy
192 Age of Empires Cover

1997 · Mac, PC

Age of Empires

27%

Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by...

  • Strategy
194 The Sims 3 Cover

2009 · Mac, PC

The Sims 3

27%

In The Sims 3, you can create Sims with unique personalities, fulfill their desires, and control their lives within a customizable living neighborhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim get lucky with the power of "love c...

  • Strategy
196 Diablo Cover

1996 · Mac, PC, PS1

Diablo

27%

Diablo is an isometric strategy RPG and one of the most well-known examples of the action-RPG subgenre. Although some of the game mechanics resemble a typical RPG, all actions are done in real-time just like in an action game. The player have to kill hordes of...

  • Strategy
197 Among Us Cover

2018 · Android, Switch, PC

Among Us

27%

Play with 4-15 player online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone! Originally created as a party game, we recommend playing wit...

  • Strategy
198 XCOM: Enemy Unknown Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

27%

XCOM: Enemy Unknown will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called XCOM. As the XCOM commander, you will defend against a terrifying global alien invasion by managing resources, advancing technologies, and overseeing combat strategies a...

  • Strategy
200 The Sims 2 Cover

2004 · Mac, PC

The Sims 2

27%

In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before. You'll be able to control your Sims over their entire lifetimes, taking them from their first steps to their golden years. Guide them through "Life's Big Moment...

  • Strategy
201 Slay the Spire Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Slay the Spire

27%

Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building game. Players choose from four characters, each with a unique set of cards, and attempt to climb a procedurally generated spire consisting of multiple floors of increasingly difficult enemies and bosses...

  • Strategy
202 Transistor Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Transistor

27%

Transistor is an action role-playing game presented from an isometric perspective. Players control Red, a singer in the city of Cloudbank, as she wields a greatsword-like weapon called the Transistor against robotic enemies known as the Process. Combat can be...

  • Strategy
203 Age of Mythology Cover

2002 · Mac, PC

Age of Mythology

27%

Age of Mythology is a real-time strategy game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Drawing inspiration from Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology rather than historical events, it diverges from the Age of Empires series while s...

  • Strategy
204 Overwatch Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Overwatch

16%

Join the fight for the future in the world of Overwatch and choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. Bend time, defy physics, and unleash a dizzying array of extraordinary powers and weapons. Engage your enemies...

  • Strategy
205 League of Legends Cover

2009 · Mac, PC

League of Legends

16%

League of Legends is a fast-paced, competitive online game that blends the speed and intensity of an RTS with RPG elements. Two teams of powerful champions, each with a unique design and playstyle, battle head-to-head across multiple battlefields and game mode...

  • Strategy
206 Dota 2 Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dota 2

16%

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena video game and the stand-alone sequel to the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) mod. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

  • Strategy

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