Seeking Puzzle Game Recs

[flowersforgraves]

Hi all, I'm looking for recs for point and click puzzle games with little to no combat that I can play with someone in person.

Preferred criteria:
- No first-person games. I personally loved games like Manifold Garden, The Witness, and The Room, but the person I'm playing with finds first-person games dizzying. (Third person games are slightly better, but sidescrollers or static scenes would be best.)
- No graphic violence. Investigating a murder, or cartoony violence, is fine!
- Something with built-in stopping points

Examples of games we've played and enjoyed already:
- The Darkside Detective (1 & 2)
- Puzzle Agent (1 & 2)
- Baba Is You (currently in progress)

Anything you can point me to would be helpful!

Comments

[chicago_ruth]

Looks like you got a lot of good recs already! Here's a few more, in case you inexplicably run out of games (or others are asking for the same thing XD )

Night Reverie, a small point & click where you help out some weird characters while searching for your sister. (Note: deals with death/grief)

Rakuen, where a child in long-term hospital care escapes to a fantasy world and helps the fantasy world residents (and their "real life" counterparts) deal with some of their problems. The art is gorgeous. (Note: deals with death/grief.... I definitely cried at the end of this one)

The Rewinder, an ancient chinese time rewinding mystery.

The Case of the Golden Idol, a point & click mystery game in a similar vein to Obra Dinn. Less tedious backtracking, just as much trying to figure out who is who, who killed whom, what is even going on in a scene...

Unheard, where you get a map and some voice clips (with subtitles) and have to figure out what happened based only on the audio, no visual clues.

Later Alligator, where you are hired to protect Pat the gator because he thinks one of his extended family is trying to kill him 😱 So you do a bunch of minigames to get to know the other gators in hopes of determining who maybe might do it in the future. The art & animation on this one is really fun!

Strange Horticulture, where you inherit a plant store and help people with their magical ingredients. This has multiple branching paths and depending on where you choose to explore/what solutions you give people for their problems, you get different endings.

TOEM, where you get your first camera and you go out on a pilgrimage and help people by taking pictures they want!

Chicory: A Colorful Tale, where you are the assistant to the world's colorist and you take her brush to color things and maybe stop the darkness from spreading and help people out by coloring in the world + painting for them! Sort of a puzzle platformer. There are boss levels BUT there are accessibility options where you can set it so you can't die. Which is what I did when I played. (Note: Deals with mental health issues, including depression & imposter syndrome)

Carto, where you get separated from your grandma and you have to find piece of the map in order to make the world appear, and you can rearrange the map (and the world!) to create new paths. Mostly a puzzle game.

Milkmaid of the Milky Way, where you are a milkmaid but your cows get stolen by aliens XD And you have to point & click your way into rescuing them.

One Shot, where you are helping a child deliver the sun back to the world. Gosh I loved this one. You need at least two playthroughs to get everything though, and the puzzles get very meta.


... I probably have more XD And I second a lot of the other recs here, like Tangle Tower, Unavowed, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, and the Rusty Lake games.

[flowersforgraves]

Thanks! Definitely saving these too. :D