
Unavowed
Wadjet Eye Games
Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...

Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Ubisoft Montpellier
A gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...

Murder by Numbers
Mediatonic
A genuinely clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling, carried by a sharp buddy-comedy script and a killer soundtrack—so lo...

Lucifer Within Us
Kitfox Games
Kitfox Games built one of the smartest deduction systems the genre has seen in years—then handed you only three murders to use it on. What's here is s...

Gunpoint
Suspicious Developments
A brilliant, brief noir puzzle-box where the real weapon isn't your fists—it's a screwdriver and a devious mind. Short, sharp, and unlike almost anyth...

Silt
Spiral Circus Games
Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

Spirittea
Cheesemaster Games
Spirittea nails the fantasy of running a spirit bathhouse with a hypnotic management loop and gorgeous pixel art, but finicky controls and thin hand-h...

Yuppie Psycho
Baroque Decay
A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

Prodeus
Bounding Box Software Inc.
Prodeus is the rare nostalgia act that earns its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them ...

Bugsnax
Young Horses
A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

Patapon
SAS CO.,LTD.
A near-flawless HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally fixes the latency demons — dragged down only by a grind-heavy loop that h...

Aviary Attorney
Sketchy Logic
A courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and, against all odds, makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the A...

Beholder
Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

Recursed
Portponky
Recursed is the rare puzzle game that makes you feel genuinely smarter for having played it—a fiendish, elegant meditation on recursion that demands a...

Betrayal At Club Low
Cosmo D Studios
Cosmo D has bottled the improvisational chaos of a tabletop night into 90 minutes of dice-rolling brilliance, wrapped in one of the best electronic so...

Alisa
Casper Croes
Alisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...

Hedon Bloodrite
Zan_HedonDev
A ferociously hand-crafted boomer shooter with the soul of an immersive sim, Hedon Bloodrite is one of the most confident, cohesive GZDoom projects ev...

Else Heart.Break()
Erik Svedäng, El Huervo / Niklas Åkerblad, Tobias Sjögren, Oscar "Ratvader" Rydelius, Johannes Gotlén
A once-in-a-decade experiment that turns hacking into genuine play, wrapped in a rain-soaked world you'll want to live inside — provided you can survi...

7 Days to End with You
Lizardry
A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Moonlighter
Digital Sun
Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...