In & Out Review
A Puzzle Game That Refuses To Explain Itself In & Out, released August 31, 2026 by solo developer and publisher KASTEN, is a $4.99 first-person puzzle game set inside a cold, clini
7.5 / 10
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Jusant
A serene climbing adventure whose art, sound and central mechanic draw near-unanimous praise, undercut by a consistent complaint — voiced even inside its own top positive review — that a three-to-six hour runtime and static, letter-based storytelling ask a lot for the price, with barely a third of players ever reaching the ending.
7.5 / 10
Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum
A genuinely excellent, near-universally praised picross game from genre veteran Jupiter Corporation, wrapping hundreds of art-and-culture-themed nonogram puzzles in warm, educational narration from Hololive's Juufuutei Raden, docked mainly for a steep asking price and a few missing quality-of-life conveniences on its largest grids.
7.5 / 10
Kindergarten
Kindergarten traps players in a single, endlessly repeating Monday at a violent, absurdist elementary school, where every character's storyline must be pieced together through trial, error, and death. Reviewers overwhelmingly praise its dark humor and dense writing, but a real minority push back hard on the tedium of repeating the same dialogue to fix a single mistake.
7.5 / 10
Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs-
A deep, puzzle-filled dungeon crawler built around a widely praised 12-character turn-based combat system that has produced some of the most extreme playtime devotion this review has seen, whose developer visibly reversed a controversial mid-game difficulty change after direct community backlash, undercut by a specific, repeated performance complaint even in a largely 2D game.
7.5 / 10
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Laira Cut Me Open
A free, short 2D revenge story about a woman piecing together who mutilated her, stole her life, and locked her away, praised almost unanimously for its dark, twist-driven narrative and hand-drawn art despite minor puzzle-clarity and translation rough edges.
7.5 / 10
lily's world XD Review
Finding a Stranger's Laptop From 2004 and Piecing Together What Happened to Her lily's world XD is a desktop-simulation psychological horror game from solo developer Sonder
7.5 / 10
Liminal Shroud Review
No Monsters, No Combat, Plenty Of Dread Liminal Shroud, released September 3, 2026 for $12.99 from solo-flavored studio Everdeep Studios, arrives into a genre that's become gen
7.5 / 10
Little Nightmares II
A gorgeous, unsettling puzzle-platformer sequel that expanded on a beloved horror original -- Very Positive on Steam, with a genuinely well-documented, still-unresolved PC-specific bug and a mouse-and-keyboard control scheme reviewers have criticised in near-identical terms since launch week.
7.5 / 10
Lumines Arise
Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Enhance returns to the block-and-music puzzler that predates Tetris Effect, and the review corpus responds with genuine reverence for its synchronised audiovisual flow, tempered by a specific, recurring accessibility complaint about reading blocks against busy backgrounds and a music selection some longtime fans find thinner than the series' PSP roots.
7.5 / 10
Luto review
Broken Bird Games' psychological horror walking sim traps a grieving man inside a shifting, looping house, earning a "Very Positive" score for its striking visuals and emotionally raw take on trauma, divisive for the framing narrator many demo fans didn't expect.
7.5 / 10
Merlin vs Alfonso
A Monument Valley-inspired isometric puzzler for js13k 2023 — drag golden objects with telekinesis and walk Merlin the wizard along a hand-drawn SVG castle to solve chess-piece- inspired puzzles — ranked 2nd out of the entire 2023 field, with real, developer-acknowledged rough edges on mobile that this review takes as seriously as the praise.
7.5 / 10
MiSide
A yandere-dating-sim premise that flips into psychological horror within its first minutes, and one of 2024's biggest indie viral hits — reviewed here with a specific, verifiable colorblind-accessibility gate its own community flagged, and a look at why a mostly-linear, five-hour game became a genre-defining moment anyway.
7.5 / 10
Mnimi
A faithful Simon-style color-and-sound memory game whose four-panel touch targets were confirmed to register correct taps by directly reading the game's own sequence state and turn logic.
7.5 / 10
Moss: The Forgotten Relic Review: A Beloved VR Duology Finally Comes Down to Earth
Polyarc's Moss and Moss: Book II leave their VR headsets behind and land on flat screens as one combined package. Quill the mouse is every bit as charming without a headset, but a camera built for VR occasionally struggles to translate, and the seams between two different games bolted together sometimes show.
7.5 / 10
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Murder at the Birch Tree Theater
Murder at the Birch Tree Theater is a solo-developed deduction game that borrows The Case of the Golden Idol's word-cloud puzzle interface wholesale and points it at a community theater full of quirky animal actors, and its review sample agrees it is charming, easier than its inspiration, and strongest everywhere except its convoluted final chapter.
7.5 / 10
Nekomancer of Nowhere Review
Standing Cat's debut drawing-based puzzle-action game casts players as a cat magician sketching glyphs to swap between the realms of the living and the dead, and an overwhelmingly Positive review sample praises its charm, writing, and satisfying spellcasting, with the only real friction landing on its short length and an unheralded final-boss mechanic.
7.5 / 10
Netoo Review
A Free, Minimalist Magnet Puzzle That Punches Above Its Price Netoo, developed and published by Mindlabor, released free on Steam on March 3, 2026. It's a minimalist logic puzz
7.5 / 10
Neva
Nomada Studio's follow-up to the beloved GRIS is gorgeous by near-universal agreement and just as consistently marked down by its own fans for one specific addition — combat — that a majority of its detailed critics say undercuts the emotional, puzzle-led magic that made its predecessor a modern classic.
7.5 / 10
Number Knight
A js13k 2023 entry that turns a viral fake mobile-game ad into a real, tightly-designed arithmetic puzzle — tap the bigger number to kill it, absorb its power, and watch a simple rule grow into an elemental rock-paper-scissors puzzle across 29 hand-built levels.
7.5 / 10
OUTCLAW Review
A Pikmin-Flavored Debut From a Brand-New Studio OUTCLAW released on Steam on July 29, 2026, from debut developer and publisher Moss Monkey, for $24.99, following a public demo and
7.5 / 10
Out of Sight
A blind girl who sees through her teddy bear's eyes escapes a dark, predatory mansion in this atmospheric first-person horror-puzzle adventure, earning a Very Positive score and constant, glowing comparisons to Little Nightmares and Coraline, with its rare complaints converging on a short runtime and a handful of tediously repetitive trial-and-error puzzle sections late in the game.
7.5 / 10
Phonopolis
A hand-painted cardboard puzzle adventure from Amanita Design, ten years in the making, about a resonant dystopian city and a young man trying to end its Leader's oppressive influence, drawing a large, Very Positive review sample that credits its stunning craftsmanship and music while flagging fair, corroborated complaints about an unwelcome narrator and trial-and-error puzzle logic.
7.5 / 10
Piece by Piece
Piece by Piece is a literal jigsaw-puzzle platformer from solo developer Neon Polygons, where every one of its 100 handcrafted levels is broken into connectable, rearrangeable pieces — and this review's sample, though thin in English text, is unanimously positive and backed by strong completion data and a genuinely substantial free post-launch content update.
7.5 / 10