Recommend me some puzzle games like Braid or Portal.

[Erik_Twice]

The Incredible Machine series. It's more puzzle as in "solve this problem" instead of a puzzle game like Tetris. It's really good and very fun.

http://hg101.kontek.net/incrediblemachi ... achine.htm

I recommend TIM2, it's the best one.

[aaron]

JT, have you ever played blokus? it's not a video game, it's an actual board game. it's extremely fun but takes 4 people to play. very, very logic-oriented and each move requires forward-thinking to be successful. check it out.

[REPO Man]

JT, have you ever played blokus? it's not a video game, it's an actual board game. it's extremely fun but takes 4 people to play. very, very logic-oriented and each move requires forward-thinking to be successful. check it out.

They turned it into a PSP game.

[aaron]

yeah, i knew that, but that's fucking stupid. real board games are the way to go.

[invariant]

OCTASPIRE CRATES!

Scriptable, skinnable, extensible and relocatable 3D puzzle game written in C and Lua for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems.

http://www.octaspire.com/crates

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[REPO Man]

yeah, i knew that, but that's fucking stupid. real board games are the way to go.

The kinda board games I like are often too smart for my family, though I dont think they know about Carcassonne and Catan.

So... digital versions of these board games help.

[aaron]

yeah, i knew that, but that's fucking stupid. real board games are the way to go.

The kinda board games I like are often too smart for my family, though I dont think they know about Carcassonne and Catan.

So... digital versions of these board games help.

right on, i can understand that. my dad and i used to play this game called pente all the time, and risk, stratego, shanghai, lots of logic-oriented games so i've always been attracted to those types of puzzles.

i do think the psp version of blokus is fucking annoying though

[Pulsar_t]

Has Prey been mentioned yet? It'd supposedly implemented portals long before Portal itself was even conceived, trouble was of course it'd taken over a decade to show up at retail!



I find it strage nobody mentioned Ecco the Dolphin. It's a milestone in the world of puzzle-platformers. The difficulty can be nightmarish but that's a part of the experience.



Bubba 'n' Stix, it's a platformer/puzzler that can get quite frustrating. The CD32 version has redbook audio. Shakycam vidreview



AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, for Genesis and SNES. It's basically a Lost Vikings clone. Playable but nothing out of the ordinary here.



Raw Danger! offers a variety of puzzles but the game itself is pretty average at best. Review



Illbleed is one of the few survival horror puzzlers that have a minimal of combat and lots of traps. Hilarious video review



The Experiment aka Experience 112 is adventure game with a twist, you control the character by guiding her through what you can see via security cameras. The gameplay mechanic is what makes this game, but awful voice acting and a naff ending ruined it for me. Gameplay footage. The lines between action-adventuring and puzzle-solving (ala Resident Evil) gets blurrier at this point so I'll leave it at this, but I'll mention some more titles that might fit the bill: Generations Lost (Genesis), Blackthorne (SNES/32X), Heart of Darkness (PC/PS1), Flashback (multi), Neighbors From Hell, Another World and its sequel Heart of the Alien (multi).. Find more at http://www.giantbomb.com/puzzle-platformer/92-3124/

[J T]

Pulsar_t you know about some of the most obscure stuff. They're usually worth tracking down too. I always appreciate your posts, especially since you take the time to provide pictures.

Thanks to others as well. This thread has offered up quite a few puzzle games I haven't played before. This really is the best forum for finding out about hidden gems (probably because the Hidden Gems articles are what originally attracted a lot of people to this site).

I also just bought Toki Tori on the current Steam deal. It's cutesy, but some of the puzzles require a decent amount of thought.

[alikhezeli]

Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. Its beauty and hardness can really be compared with Braid.
You can also download maps for portal (search in the internet). Another release is Portal:Prelude.

I also recommend some other games: (games with a mark (f) are flash games and most of them can be found on http://www.kongregate.com)
Portal: The Flash Version (f)
Portile (f)
Temporal (free game)
Transmover: (f) http://polig.daa.jp/tmvr.html
The Company of Myself (f)
Chronotron (f)
Time Fcuk (f)
Electric Box & Electric Box 2 (f)
Shift (1 to 4) (f)
Continuity (f)
Color Infection (1&2) (f)
Constellation (f)
Jimmi Lost His Toilet Paper (f)
Stream (http://rekcahdam.blogspot.com/)
Puzzle Dimension
Lightbot & Lightbot2 (f)
Machinarium