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Sagebrush is a short, carefully researched walk through the ruins of a doomsday cult, and it earns its discomfort honestly. Expect about two hours of ...

Rhianna Pratchett's script and David Housden's score make *Lost Words* one of the most emotionally honest short games about loss. The word-based puzzl...

Stacking turns one delightfully odd idea, climbing inside ever-larger nesting dolls to borrow their powers, into one of the most charming puzzle-adven...

Lightbot teaches real computer-science thinking (decomposition, reuse, recursion and conditional logic) without showing a single line of syntax. It is...

Motive rebuilt a 2008 classic almost entirely in new materials and kept its original design intact. On PC this is the best version of Dead Space, but ...

Mars Horizon is an authentic, easy-to-learn space agency management game that gets the bureaucratic thrill of the space race right. Its turn-based mis...

A clever one-room puzzle game that turns a single forbidden button into about 25 endings, most of them darkly funny. It rewards patience and a notepad...

Etherborn builds a small, beautiful puzzle box around one excellent idea: gravity follows whatever surface you walk onto. The spatial design is sharp ...

Stack the States hides a flash-card drill inside a physics puzzle that is genuinely fun, and the trick still works. It is a clean, ad-free, privacy-re...

Strange Telephone takes one excellent idea, a six-digit number that always produces the same world, and builds a short, unsettling pixel-art mystery a...

Grace Bruxner and Thomas Bowker end their trilogy with its funniest, biggest and most confident entry, a cozy comedy that uses a detective story as th...

JETT: The Far Shore has some of the best hovercraft flying and some of the strongest atmosphere in any recent indie game. It also makes you work hard ...

Lapse is the most convincing attempt yet to take the performance out of photo sharing. You can't see your shots right away, your friends are the only ...

Void Crew is one of the best "shout at your friends while the ship burns" co-op games on PC. It has clear crew roles, real combat and a roguelite upgr...

Heretic's Fork turns Hell's HR department into one of the sharpest hybrids in the horde-survival boom. Card combos that grow until they wipe out a scr...