What puzzlers have you beatened?For me>portal>portal 2>world of goo>probably some others ;)Currently in the end game of Witness and unlocked most of the main island in Baba is You
I also got what I feel like is pretty far in Shove it! I think it was like level 19 or 21 or something. Back when I was a kid of course
>>750170813Beat the demo of the odor of the stinking saar back in Summer
>>750170813does the professor layton series counts as puzzles games? I guess only those
>>750170813World of goo 2 has essentially the entire first chapter be too easy and after that the levels are just annoying rather than hardCrayon physics deluxe was a good one but very short
>>750170962>professor laytontl;dr?
>>750170813>tfw got to a level with sleep>but not to the level with that wolf thing on the left
bumping potentially epic bread
>>750170962>professor laytonIf it's point n click those are called quests
Echo Weaver, really good if you like metroidvanias
>>750173489>knowledge-based Metroidvania>break le cyclepls tell me it's not roguelike
>>750173559It isn't a roguelike. You're on a timer and reset back to your starting point at the end of it, but since everything you unlock is knowledge based, you don't lose much progress. There's also checkpoints.
I play big boy puzzle games
>>750173630>reset everything gameHmm, interesting. An outer wilds like?>there's checkpointsNvm, trash
>>750173635puzzles like this with a lot of objects are usually surprisingly easy. When I get a "big star" puzzle that only has like 2 objects in it that's when I know I'm in for some crazy bullshit
Play La-Mulana 2, the normalfag friendly version of La-Mulana
>>750173635>tfw literally no hard drive space to buy it even though its the first game I've wanted to buy in a decade+>tfw hard drive prices are exorbitant
>>750173798I liked La Mulana a lot more than 2. In La Mulana, it felt like there were all sorts of different puzzles and gimmicks, but in 2 it felt like 90% of all the puzzles were just "find a totem password" and then "input the totem password at the correct location". Really boring and lame.
>>750173737>When I get a "big star" puzzle that only has like 2 objects in it that's when I know I'm in for some crazy bullshitThose are my favorite because it's all about pure intelligence since your working memory is not challenged at all and it doesnt matter how distractable you are. Somebody posted a level in Baba that filtered them which was a great example of this.
>>750173869uh weird, I gave the exact same explanation to my friends about mantras
> Portal > Portal 2> The Witness> Void Stranger (I guess, currently doing EX mode)
>>750173991the Mantras also sucked and were the worst part of La Mulana, but they just felt more central in the sequel, like the whole game revolved around them.
>>750170813Was just playing WE WERE HERE with my roommate. Not the hardest puzzles but I love the required cooperative communication. Probably gonna do the whole series with them.
>>750170813Baba Is You filtered me so hard, brehs. I just can't get into the headspace needed for it.
>>750170813Stephen's Sausage Roll
>>750174372it's a "grab your coffee and look outside your window while thinking" kind of game, don't worry if you can't solve a puzzle for more than an hour
>>750170813Big Walk was fun, but way too easy, I couldn't see myself enjoying it as much if it wasn't doubling as a virtual hangout for my friends and I.
>>750170813Recently The Message from Deep Space which is a great language deduction game.
>>750170813antichamber and witness and fract osc are also pretty fun>>750170962i personally think so
Flux Empyrion
terraformental might also qualify (sequencing-of-choices memorization puzzle combined with an incremental game), ymmv how you see it
>>750174372It's definitely hard enough that I only solve a few puzzles per session. It's very clear with such games when your brain is done and you might as well take a break since you're not solving SHIT after a certain point in a session
>nobody mentioned Samorost or Machinariumv is dead huh
>tfw got to the ??? in baba is youhonestly I kinda called this mechanic as soon as I first saw the map but still it's cool to have gotten there
>>750170813Baba has such a fun concept, but it rapidly devolves into "solution requires you to do specific unusual thing that they game never showed you was even possible"
>>750170813Well I beat all 50 stages of the Famicom Lode Runner, and now I'm playing through Wrecking Crew. I'm on Stage 50 of that game, but it has 100 stages total, so I'm only halfway. Stage 50 is actually really difficult, I know how to do it but I just can't execute it, especially with the fireballs appearing at the worst times.
Poke All Toads
>>750177682>WHAT???? I HAVE TO DISCOVER MECHANICS AND FIGURE THINGS OUT IN A HECKING PUZZLE GAME?!??!?!!?This is how you sound
>no mention of Braid or FezDead. Board.
>>750179225I feel like they've been discussed to death and just devolve into Soulja Boy and Phil Fish memes. Fez is neat though, I like how it provided the rosetta stone via the quick fox room.
>>750177768Anyway my thoughts on Lode Runner is that it's really fucking fun and clever, puzzles have interesting solutions while the robots allow for dynamism and replayability.My thoughts on Wrecking Crew: Also good, but more rigid. Some puzzles have a very specific set of actions you must perform perfectly, and some puzzles are more open-ended but more annoyingly long with way too many multi-hit walls. But it is fun. Also the music and sound effects are probably some of the best on the whole system, at least without expansion audio.
>>750179031Puzzles are meant to be solved not discovered
Working on Void Stranger atm, trying to do it without looking up anything. Though I heard the EX mode basically requires it to get started.Still putting together Eus' brand since I already finished Cif's playthrough to save Bee.
i like animal well
>>750180056What kind or I guess category of puzzles does it do?
>>750179780>I like how it provided the rosetta stone via the quick fox room.But anon, that's literally the worst way to do an alphabet puzzle. That way you don't have to actually figure it out.
I enjoy Picross but it is a plane board or page you fill in. Are there puzzle games that make it more video game-y with characters story settings etc like block push puzzles have gotten?
>>750173807It's 14GB bro, come onUninstall call of duty
Any good puzzlers for android? Traveling for few days
>>750170912I'm playing through the full game right now.
>>750180753Anything by HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDWarning: genuine 150 IQ required
>>750180845>make games requiring genius 150 IQ>release them as mobil games250 IQ move
>>750180126It’s a mix of metroidvania elements. You solve a set of puzzles, get a new skill, then use your skills to solve harder puzzles and unlock even more skills. There are paths locked behind specific skills just like in a metroidvania. There are no enemies to fight though, it’s all puzzles.
>the witness is beautiful but filtered me>the outer wilds is amazing but i quit after an hour and prefer to watch others play>the golden idol was fun but way too difficult, would like to try other similar games>beat world of goo 2 last month, it was just okay>tried both talos principle games but got filtered halfway
>>750173807Why would you want to buy that shit anon?
>>750170813I like the ''The Room'' games. Puzzles arent ultra difficult but its fun and the atmosphere is great. Also really cheap on sale. I wish they would release a new one every year lol. Tried The House of Da Vinci which is at first glance very similar and while it was alright it somehow felt worse in every aspect compared to The Room.
There should be a sub-genre of puzzle for actual hardcore puzzles.Stuff like Portal is just theatrics to someone of my intellect.I enjoy things like Baba Is You and Spacechem, but it's hard to find more games like that. Any recommendations?
>>750181079I really don't want to call you dumb, but getting filtered on base Talos Principle games (DLC can be tricky) plus everything else is baffling to me. You might just need more experience, Chants of Sennaar is similar to the games you got stuck on but a lot easier for instance. Though it does have some (very short) annoying stealth sequences.
>>750181345i just don't have a lot of patienceplayed the chants demo as well and got stuck very early, had to look up solutions and that ruins it
>>750180741My dumbass Windows goes from >30 gb free to>0 kb freeRandomly without me even doing anything Stupid fucking shit
>>750170813I love The Witness. Baba is too hard for me. Maybe one day I'll finish it...
>>750181217The room is a perfect encapsulation of everything that is NPC coded Felt like busy work that feels too much like wasting time to me
i am addicted to Shenzhen I/O
Currently playing through Order of the sinking starDropped:Baba is you Talos (felt boring)Mist (i don't like meta puzzles)TeardownReturn of Obra Dinn (I need to go back to that one)
Is sinking star good for "pick up and play style" gaming or is it something i'd be better off playing longer than like an hour everyday?
>>750180017Yeah EX is one of those "a ton of people in a discord each share one pixel to get the whole picture" bullshit. But its optional post game stuff so make sure to do it at the very end
>>750181857baba was bullshit, but fun conceptwas surprised to see teardown having timed missions, wish they removed that part or made it optional
>>750181886pick up is good for sure, it's discrete puzzles
>>750181886I can only manage about 2 - 3 hours per day at most for any Sokoban game. Any longer and my brain hurts. Because its lots of smaller puzzles its perfect for this.
>>750173737Yeah big puzzles are a lot more of just checking what's working where It's always either Many elements +Simple steps or vice versa
>>750181217Other than being abit short The Room games are great, they are among the highest rated puzzle games on steam for a reason. >I wish they would release a new one every yearUnfortunately it seems like the devs switched to making VR games now
>>750181886Each overworld screen has about an hour of puzzles with a theme (like 5 "wizard x mirror" puzzles), so doing one screen a day is a viable pace
>>750181857>Talos is boringPretentious maybe, but that game is anything other than boring. Fantastic atmosphere, strong story, great puzzles, healthy difficulty curve, bonus challenges, even the occasional secret.>MistMyst or some other one?>ObraA very weird one to drop, since it's kind of a one-shot game.
>>750181923>>750181924Thanks bros i like to play my puzzle games later at night before bed
>>750181989Are these the same as those escape room browser flash games that used to be on Newgrounds and such back in the day?
>>750181857Also played a bunch of opus magnum but i always felt like i fell short>>750181916>babai think i got stuck on puzzle that uses the wall glitch and quit the game>was surprised to see teardown having timed missions,Getting all the objects is on later levels is almost impossible unless you are willing to level entire map which never feels that smart or interesting
>get agent a dirt cheap on sale>comfy point and click mystery>having fun until i stop some water i find a door>door needs a code, don't have that>there is also a broken number pad inside, don't have a code for that either>out in front of the house i stop the main water pipe>next to it is a box with more goddamn codes i don't have
>>750181889Will do. Gonna exhaust everything I can think of in the main-game before looking for the way to start EX.
Halloween is soon. Hit me with the best horror puzzle game for the season
>>750182136Light on puzzles AND horror, but Creature Kitchen fits the bill.
>>750182017Maybe early puzzles were too simplistic and walking around felt like chore like it could've been an isometric game you could zoom around in didn't care for the story >Myst yeah that >A very weird one to drop, since it's kind of a one-shot game.I am mean i played good bit maybe 3 or 4 confirmed entries then something happened irl and i stopped playing
Is Lorelei and the Laser Eyes good? Currently deciding whether to buy it on sale or Order of the Sinking Star.
>>750182180Its definitely my favorite puzzle game of all time. I'd probably say that Sinking Star has more 'content' overall but Lorelei is great to do for the first time.
>>750182180It is meh. Fine if you don't have other puzzle games to play instead so go for Sinking Star
>>750182223>>750182227>the dualality of man
>>750182180Yes. Lorelei is what happens when an autistic art-core developer decides to make a puzzle game (this is a complement).Everything fits together beautifully, but actually cracking it open takes a fair bit of slow exploration and puzzle solving.There's no big grandiose overarching mega puzzles or insane mechanics to learn, it's mostly just exploration, deduction, and simple puzzles, like this one.If all you care about is the puzzle and not so much its presentation or any other elements of a game, Sinking Star is better, but Lorelei is really fucking good.Overall, it was my GOTY '24.
>>750182180It's okay, but I didn't like how much of the puzzles boiled down to "sift through piles of garbage data to find the password and then input the password", which is the absolute lowest form of puzzle
>>750182324Forgot image.This one's super early on and the set it comes from are fun to just chuck into the occasional "I bet ya can't solve this" /v/ thread.
>>750182376>"sift through piles of garbage data to find the password and then input the password"Everything is used only once and most things have some correlation.
>>750182052No idea desu I never played those but I guess the concept would be the same. However these have a story too with like supernatural elements and stuff like that. You can get the first one for a dollar during sale so cant go wrong with trying it out if youre interestd^^
>>750182294>>750182180I feel like puzzle games fall into two camps:1.Rule driven depth: Give me a solid set of rules and mechanics, then go all in on exploring every permutation of themPure experimentation:Just let me tinker around until things click, with every puzzle introducing something totally new mechanically
>watching a new blind playthrough of the outer wilds
>>750182052Similar in nature, yeah.Speaking of, there's fuckloads of those only room escape games on Flashpoint.I highly recommend the Neutral series.>Sphere>RGB>Vision (especially this one)>Switch>Lights>Linkage>Elements>SIGN
Any other good thinking related orange gear games?
>>750182180I like to measure games by how many pages they take up in my small notebook (not tiny, just smaller than printer paper).Lorelei is a 1-pager front and back.
>>750182639Why do people still take hand written notes? Its way easier taking screencaps and editing them in paint
>>750170813Everyone who likes puzzle games should play Strange Horticulture and its sequel, Strange Antiquities. Super comfy.
>>750182661I did that for Blue Prince, cause there was just too much damn shit.But it just was not as satisfying as physically writing shit down.I don't write because it's effective, I write because it makes me feel more akin to a detective solving the mysteries laid out before me.
>>750182661>Why do people still take hand written notes?It's fun, effective, and less arduous than managing a .txt file.
>>750182180Lorelei starta off really good. It unfortunately suffered from a couple poor progession issues that I think made the second half of the game annoying. It introduces some puzzles too early yet gives you cryptic enough hints where its u clear if you can solve them yet.However, it also has good puzzles and the solutions to the puzzles have a meaning beyond simply solving them. The very last 'puzzle' of the game is kino and almost makes up for some of its flaws. It is worth playing if you like puzzle games.
>>750173635Sokobans are so disgusting (except baba i luv u)
>>750180926Fucking hate this game. By the time you realize that the late game puzzles are actually arg bullshit and not actually possible to solve you have already invested too much time and effort. Also hate the mystery box "implied story' shut thats really just a metaphor for depression or whatever
>>750181831pretty much the entire Zacktronics library is gold
>>750182180>Is Lorelei and the Laser Eyes good?Yes. Best game of 2024 imho.
>>750170813I beat the base game of baba is you. Been stuck on museum and extra levels for about a month.
>>750180056I hate puzzles where you walk around with a sense of fomo wondering if you are missing something, I love it when a game locks you in a tiny room with 2 things and its still hard
>>750170813I love Baba Is You, yet I haven't beat it yet. It is a favorite of mine.Gorogoa is great and short.Machinarium is a good one.Portal 1 and 2 like you said are good.Monster Expedition is good.Void Stranger is one of my favorites, but I think it has a niche appeal.EDGE is fun, more of a speed game than puzzle game.Toki Tori is fantastic, one of the best puzzle games out there imo. I haven't played Toki Tori 2 but I heard its great as well.Moncage is alright. Its clever, but in its cleverness I think it makes things unintentionally unclear. That or I am dumb. Probably a mix of both.Cypher is good for the most part, except I hated that it gives you red herrings for some puzzles. That is my number two pet peeve for puzzle games.My number one pet peeve is when a puzzle doesn't make sense and/or breaks previously established rules like Cairo does. Cairo has a wonderful atmosphere but the puzzles themselves are weak and sometimes complete nonsense.
>>750182180I dropped it searching for passwords is not fun, felt like old escape the room game but without the fun parts and variety of puzzles
Jelly no Puzzle is another great game. It is super hard even though the premise is simple. Those are my favorite kind of games.>>750182136Deep Sleep trilogy is pretty good. They are short point and click games. I shill them whenever I can because I like them. In that same vein, some of the Rusty Lake series of games are decent point and click horror-like puzzle games.
>>750181120NTA, but that's a really good puzzle game.
>>750182136I got here as fast as I could
>>750179225Everyone already played those games years ago.
>>750181079>>the outer wilds is amazing but i quit after an hour and prefer to watch others playThat's the worst possible way to experience Outer Wilds.
>>750181261Stephen's Sausage Roll is obscenely difficult. I didn't last an hour in it.
>>750182136Signalis has puzzles. I didn't finish it, but it seems to be popular.
>>750181261https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic
>>750184169I dropped on tower, thats just too many shit at once
Did anyone else play Call of the Sea? I really enjoyed it.
Check out leafs odyssey
Finished Endacopia a couple of days ago, which isn't fully a puzzle, but was still fun nonetheless
This short Myst-like is worth it just for the music.>>>/wsg/6257224
>>750182180Everything except the ending, and only because it's shit you already know being treated like a big twist. And the film stills being superimposed in some areas that makes shit look bad, but I think that's more personal.
>>750182136
>>750186485>Cute girl on the cover art>Cute girl the world sprite>Ugly Tumblrnose dialog box spriteWhy?
>>750186485How's the steam deck compatibility? Might be my next game after OOtSS
>>750181261Jelly no Puzzle
>>750170813In the past few years>both myst remakes and firmament>lorelei and the laser eyes>talos 2>obra dinn, both golden idols>submachine>viewfinderPlus the couple escape rooms from neutral, can you believe they still make them?
>>750177682baba and noita being obtuse is half of the appealand there's very little that doesn't have clues pointing the right way, even if you have to think hard about the solution
>>750182639lmao lorelei is the only one I had to actually take notes for
>>750170813Pretty sure this counts for the thread and I'm probably going to die before ever truly beating it, but I've been dumping a few hundred hours into Tactical Nexus over the last couple of months. Managed to get my first Moon medal not too long ago, then bumped my Sunstone count up from the mid 80's to the mid 130's shortly afterwards. I just unlocked my first Last Inflator last night and got The Cure. I saw a vision of hell shortly after in the form of a level 807 bird on the second screen with 5.4 million HP and 6 digit stats, and figured I'll fuck with that mess way later.
Craftin alchemy n shit
>>750170813Motionrec was pretty neat and shorthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2602230/MotionRec/
>>750190783>calls it opus magnum>it's his best gameno coincidences
>>750184169SSR is the first puzzle game in which I couldn't complete a single puzzle in my first 3 hours.But once I got going it got a lot easier. I think k it's one my favorite but yeah it's hard
