![]() ![]() ![]() If you get too stuck on a puzzle, then skip it and come back later. In particular, play through to see the mechanics you like and to have fun. I’ve always played through enough to see most of the mechanics though. I have not finished some of these games, and have 100%-ed very, very few of them. Usually they’re made by indie devs: there’s a Discord and everything! And if you know some computer science, these games are often theoretically NP-hard, PSPACE-hard, or even RE-hard-but all the best ones are designed explicitly with humans in mind.Īnyway, I figured I’d just make a page with a list of games I both like and consider to be thinky puzzle games, so I can send it to people like you, and you could maybe try some out…? And if you’ve played one or two already, it might tell you the type of game I’m talking about :) boring caveats/disclaimers that you should skip unless you are thinking about complaining about my list ![]() Lots of them are grid-based and involve pushing things around? Imagine those puzzles you played as a kid where you had to get a car out of a busy parking lot, or the ice gym puzzles in Pokemon, but like… much less brute-force-y and more filled with fun “aha!” moments. They’re not necessarily hard puzzles-some of the games below are probably pretty easy-but they’re non-routine puzzle games that have some nice moments of realization. Sometimes people ask me about video games I like, and I have to explain to them that my favorite genre of games are “ thinky puzzle games.” I have kinda struggled to explain what these are for a while, and people online joke about them being hard to define. ![]()
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