Xindaris
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1916890/Slider/

Don't quite remember how I ran into this game, but it's pretty great! It's based on the idea that the world you run around in is a slide puzzle, and you can slide the puzzle around to solve puzzles. There are multiple areas, each of which is its own slide-puzzle with its own gimmick(s), so it's a pretty thorough exploration of the idea! Only occasionally does the game ask you to be quick about doing things; the grand majority of the game is about figuring out the right steps to take and then just taking them. It's also, thankfully, relatively rare that you actually need to solve a 3x3 slide puzzle.

..Oh, and it's free! And the game's own pause screen contains a thing that opens a developer-made hint-through of the game in your browser.

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yeah, the game's neat. I ran out of steam when I hit the rock/paper/scissors section and really should pick it back up

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I think that's pretty near the end...unless you used a shortcut that I think would require knowledge you can only get from having played the factory or something. For me, canopy town and factory factory were the hardest; I only took a few tries for the desert army fight, and somehow found the very last area to be relatively easy for the most part.

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I still can't believe this game is just being given away for free. The amount of content, polished well-thought out content no less, is astronomical for the price point. I found the upper left snowy mountain area the hardest, even if the minecarts were some of the most fun I had with the game. I need to go back and find the optional collectables at some point.

Oh! Also I love how the game asks for your name and then just gives it to the main character's cat instead of the main character. That was a small but neat thing I've not seen a game do before.

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The game Chicory: A Colorful Tale pulls a kind of similar, but also different sleight of hand:


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How did I forget that? I ended up

While not the topic of this thread, Chicory was a magical game. That one boss battle with and the way it was timed to the music, I wish I could experience that for the first time again.

For Slider my cat ended up named Citrus, which honestly as much as I use it as an online handle these days, it's also a very good cat name.

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