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6 Games Considered

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Antichamber
-Very Positive–
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Super Hexagon
$2.99–Action / Arcade
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Superhot
$24.99Very Positive–
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Thomas Was Alone
$9.99Very PositivePuzzle, Platformer
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Mini Metro
$9.99Very Positive–
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Antichamber

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Lateral thinking

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Brilliant Puzzles

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The primary theme to puzzles in Antichamber is that things aren't how they appear. If you walk down a hallway and turn around, you might be in a totally different area. This leads to some incredibly interesting and difficult puzzles, forcing you to think about the world around you in a totally...
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Unique minimalist visuals 

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Using stark white halls with glowing colors there is a minimal beauty to Antichamber. One room houses great abstract art which changes depending on which way you are looking at it.
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Good for speed running

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A great game to put your speed skills to the test! Great for those who love any percent speedruns!
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Focuses less on its main selling point near middlegame

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Near the middle of the game, you get a thing that a lot of the puzzles start to focus on, and the mind-bending puzzles and tricks to the player take more of a backseat as this mechanic changes the game to more of a traditional style of puzzle game. There are still elements of it, but much less of i...
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Short for its price

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The time to beat the game is well around 7 hours for an average player, and there's not much extra content left after that. In that time the game doesn't exactly go deep in its innovations on the "mind-bending" idea (no gravity flips, just teleportations).
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Lack of story leaves the player wanting

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There is not much of a story to be found in the game and what there is is pretty convoluted and has the player asking what even happened by the end of the game.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Super Hexagon

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Great soundtrack

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Aggressive aesthetic

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The visual design of the game consists of basic geometric shapes in bright colors that turn and blink while you are trying to stay focused on a little triangle in the middle.
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Addictive, challenging gameplay

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You will die. A lot. And that is the point. The game is challenging, but fair. It is as much about memorization as it is about precision of movement.
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Can cause nausea

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The fast spinning graphics could cause some people a bit of nausea.
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Genre:Action / Arcade
Controller Support:No
Co-Op:None
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Superhot

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Lets you roleplay matrix-like battles

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The coolest thing about this mechanic is it essentially lets you role play matrix-like battles with you dodging bullets, slicing bullets out of mid-air with a katana and an assortment of other badass things to do.
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Minimalistic yet beneficial art style

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The art style in the game is very cool and minimalistic while actually serving to make the game easier to understand and play. The gameplay in Superhot relies on you being able to react properly to your environment, and the art choices make it really easy to understand what is going on around you.
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Awesome time-based mechanic

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In Superhot time only goes forward when you move. This turns the gameplay into something closer to a puzzle game as you need to be very calculated with every move you make.
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Short story mode

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Although there are plenty of other modes with a lot of variety, the story mode can typically be beaten in around 2 hours.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Thomas Was Alone

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Great story

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For what is a pretty simplistic looking game, Thomas Was Alone offers a truly great story that actually gets the player to care about what are basically squares and rectangles.
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Enjoyable professional narration

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What really drives the well crafted story home is the wonderful narration done by British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television, Danny Wallace. Not many indie small budget games receive the polish this game has in their voice acting, which really adds to the expe...
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Polished ethereal soundtrack

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Haunting guitar strums mixed with beautiful piano chords and bits of chiptune creates a very fitting soundtrack that allows for an experience of polish not often found.
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Short

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The gameplay only lasts about 3 or 4 hours.
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Some puzzles can be difficult

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Here an there are a few really tough puzzles in the game which can be frustrating, luckily they are few and far between as the gameplay does not tend to repeat itself too often.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
Genre:Puzzle, Platformer
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Mini Metro

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Very minimal puzzle sim aspects

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Very basic and abstract in design and gameplay the user uses limited resources in order to create the most effective routes for a transportation system.
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Soothing gameplay

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Minimalist design and relaxing music makes this a very different experience from the bustle of some others. A minimal zen like game that allows one to relax while playing. While gameplay may get hectic there are modes of play that do not allow for loosing meaning that you can relax and just play w...
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Takes a while to get the hang of

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Learning the game may take some time, though the mechanics are not too difficult to grasp, the gameplay itself can be frustrating.
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Casual gameplay

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There is less depth than in many of the games listed which may not be quite what is required here
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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Rymdkapsel

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"Zen" mode

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There is included in the game a "Zen" mode where users can play with no enemies in the levels, which makes for a more easy going and relaxing experience.
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Unique base building mechanic

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You build out your base by attaching tetronimo shaped rooms. It's a unique kind of constraint that is rarely seen in base building games.
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Gameplay novelty doesn't last for that long

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The game only has enough mechanics to really last a few hours, and after a few levels it's done. There is no infinite mode.
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Steam Rating:Very Positive
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