Ignoring the complete insanity that this is from the Serious Sam developers: Talos Principle (1 in particular) is one of those rare puzzle games where things "make sense". Mechanics are introduced and the vast majority (I want to say all, but it has been a minute) of interactions and "tools" come from that. Rather than "oh, but you see, if you had noticed the way this one picture on the wall looks you would have found the secret tool you needed" wanking.

And the story is interesting enough to motivate progress but not so vital that you feel bad about taking a day or two off before going back to the puzzle.

Baba Is You has some of the "ha, its a secret trick" nonsense but, by and large, is a similar vibe and approach to puzzle solving.

[–] theohgee@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Any others you recommend? I enjoyed this and the witness, and love a story driven mystery game like obra dinn too but I really suck at physically using a controller so I can't really do games where you have to have actual video game skills

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

The Witness is the other one that I'd compare then too. Other than this series and that game, nothing else of the same level comes to mind. There's a DLC for TTP1 if you haven't tried it. There's also obviously the Portal series too.

Antichamber fits with these I think, and maybe Baba is You, though I only have like 15m in that so I can't comment in how good it is. I think that's pretty much it.

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