Aethernaut

Aethernaut

Discover the depths of your soul with AETHERNAUT, an open world first person puzzle game in the vein of Portal and Talos Principle. Set in a claustrophobic steampunk world, you must solve puzzle rooms using light, sensors, portals and time travel to gather the aether vials and access the core of the Construct.

You are guided by the voice of Cornell, a scientist helpîng you through the experiments and seeking to better understand who you are as a person by asking challenging philosophical questions:

  • Would you rather be remembered forever as an evil tyrant, or be completely forgotten?

  • Is happiness or usefullness a more important purpose in life?

  • When we fall in love, do we love the real person or just our idea of that person?

Your answers will guide the path of the story as you learn why you are able to survive the deadly aether. But as you delve deeper into the abandoned Construct, an unseen entity tries to make contact, pleading for your help.

Solve the experiments and discover who you are. Will you escape the Construct before it’s too late?

Solve over 100 puzzle rooms

Explore a vast open world by jumping, ledge grabbing and portaling

Master the three aether cubes through light driven puzzle design

Reveal your personality through probing questions

Uncover the secrets of the Construct through voice recordings left by its citizens

Discover multiple endings depending on how you complete puzzles

Accessible gameplay with simple controls


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Aethernaut on Steam

Eos

Eos

This was a great game. It was also a short game, but it’s worth it. I finished it after only 56 minutes of gameplay, but I can’t really complain as the game was 100% free.

The story is unique and bitter-sweet, the art style is stunning yet simplistic, and the puzzles are entertaining. The puzzles remind me of portal, with the cube and button format, but the mechanic with the day/night gates is fairly unique. The puzzles are on the easier side of things, so it’s good for a quiet evening when your kind of tired.

Real player with 0.9 hrs in game


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This is a very basic game designed by students from Digipen Institute of Technology Singapore. Took me under 30 mins, most people completed it in half that time….but it is free!

An enchanting story about a little girl holding a mysterious medallion trying to fulfil her late mother’s dying wish. A voice greets her and as she embarks on her short journey, she learns more about her parents and why she is there. The owner of the voice wants to make sure she is who she really is and tests her with minor trials.

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

Eos on Steam

Left Alone: Rebirth

Left Alone: Rebirth

Left Alone is back…but this time it’s been reborn!

Battle the desolate elements of Mount High, crawl through depths of the mysterious surroundings and venture into places you didn’t think possible. Left alone: Rebirth is a horror heavy thriller which will literally take your breath away.

Key Features:

  • Psychological thriller – Discover clues, lore, notes and memories left from past students and visitors of Mount High Campgrounds. Isolated and completely alone, navigating your way through a bleak winter environment won’t be your only worry in this battle for survival.

  • Immersive gameplay - Scavenge the environment to craft items that will help you solve puzzles throughout the game. Find clues and uncover traces of your friend’s disappearances, while maintaining your temperature in the sub-zero environment. You might unearth more than you bargained for.

  • High-suspense atmosphere - A unique and original score written by our incredible composer will feed into the player’s immersion. Carefully designed audio cues and 3D sounds for the player, environments and the world you’ll be exploring will deliver a hair raising experience.

  • Stunning vistas - Set in multiple interior and exterior environments which include: Wild hiking trails, neglected cabins, gorging rocky ravines, spectacular glacier caves, forlorn campgrounds, abandoned school and so much more.

The World:

Built from the ground up, Left Alone: Rebirth is 5x larger than the original, retaining and Improving on all the things you loved in the first game. The unique high-octane atmosphere, incredible and immersive environments with 10x the detail and fidelity, for those who dare to play.

The Story:

Begin an adventure you’ll never quite forget as you play as ex-Military Officer Joel Dent, who is recovering from lengthy physical trauma. Finally on the mend, Joel and his friends arrange a meeting point in the bleak wintery Canadian forests, for a fun, adventurous weekend away fishing at their nostalgic Mount High Camp. Things have changed from when they first met at school 22 years ago.

Strange goings-on leave Joel, alone and isolated, with no supplies in sub-zero temperatures. He must find a source of heat to keep his temperature up while he searches for clues into his friend’s sudden disappearance. His path will lead to an abandoned school with a horrific past. The search for his friends uncovers horrors beyond his worst nightmares and Joel soon realises he wasn’t actually Left Alone.


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Left Alone: Rebirth on Steam

Among Stars and Robots

Among Stars and Robots

I liked it.

Real player with 5.6 hrs in game

Among Stars and Robots on Steam

Bilal Go!

Bilal Go!

Bilal Go! is a turn-based puzzle video game. The player moves Colored Characters as a puzzle piece through a board game while avoiding obstacles and manipulating the environment.

Bilal Go! on Steam

BlockLock

BlockLock

Are you up to the challenge? Oddball Games presents a fiendish 3D puzzle game unlike any other!

You take the role of an android, tasked with returning the blocks to their matching home tiles. Walk up to a block, grab it and push it. Sounds simple? It’s anything but! You’ll need to think ahead or you may box yourself in!

BlockLock on Steam

Box Factory

Box Factory

Terrific value little game for a couple hours of relaxing puzzling with fun, bouncy music This game is less than a dollar, but I would probably pay a few dollars more for extra stages. When I beat the last level, after about 2 or 3 hours, I found myself complaining that it was too short, and had to remind myself I paid less than a dollar for it. I have some mild complaints, but nothing that would stop me from purchasing again. There are a few interface quibbles, several of which the dev already addressed, and some of the later stages are much easier than they should be, and should be placed earlier, while one of the earlier stages is hard enough that it should be toward the late mid-game. Definitely worthwhile, and I’ll probably be buying a few more of this dev’s games.

Real player with 5.1 hrs in game

I enjoyed playing Box Factory. Puzzles were progressively more difficult even if they seemed simple at first especially the last one (27) which frustrated me for 30 minutes (doh).

Ohh, my graphics card was thrashing at 1,980fps. I think there should be a “limit FPS” option in the settings as it does not need any more than 60 fps and would save electricity and heat

Real player with 3.1 hrs in game

Box Factory on Steam

Cubyrinth

Cubyrinth

Cubyrinth is a 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to navigate and find the correct solution in the labyrinth located on the 6 sides of the cube?

To complete the labyrinths, you can use highlight mode, which allows you to see already visited areas, as well as skip points, which allow you to skip too complex labyrinths (skip points will be given for every 3 completed labyrinths).

Game Features:

  • An infinite number of labyrinths.

  • Each labyrinth is located on 6 sides of the cube.

  • Each labyrinth is unique, because they all are auto-generated.

Cubyrinth on Steam

Help The Minotaur

Help The Minotaur

Help the minotaur to exit 20 mazes.

3 game modes: 1 player, 2 players (local co-op), 2 players (local versus).

Resolutions: 1280x720, 1600x900, 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160.

Help The Minotaur on Steam

Laser Burst

Laser Burst

last time I checked, there were about 5 billion laser-redirecting puzzlers in existence, but laser burst is definitely one of the better ones.

the goal, predictably, is to pop all the balloons by placing mirrors facing the right way. left click puts a mirror on a valid tile, right click rotates it before it’s placed, so make sure it’s facing the right way first. mirrors can’t be removed, so basically there’s no undo, but it’s a non-issue, most levels are pretty short anyway. I found it weird that the laser automatically fires after every placed mirror, but it’s often necessary to clear balloons out of the way and make room for more mirrors.

Real player with 2.7 hrs in game

Starts out simple and engages the brain by level 6 or 7. Did around 20 levels in the first hour but not all to 3 stripes. Need to revisit some, lol. The slow introduction of new things was a nice progression reward. The later levels will definitely get you thinking! Would also be a great gift for someone who likes puzzles.

Real player with 1.8 hrs in game

Laser Burst on Steam