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80 Days
Narrative adventure about steampunk version of Around the World in 80 days

Alan Wake
Action-adventure thriller with tv show structure

Alan Wake American Nightmare

Baba Is You

Batman Arkham Asylum

Borderlands 2

Braid
2D puzzle platformer with time manipulation mechanics

Celeste
2D platformer about climbing the mountain

Chuchel

Control

Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy

Creaks

Dark Echo

Dark Souls

Dead Island

Dead Island Riptide

Dorf Romantik

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

Fez

Fights in Tight Places

Firewatch

Grim Fandango

Grow Home

Grow Up

Hidden In Plain Sight

Hollow Knight

It Takes Two
3D Coop platformer about

Jusant

Left 4 Dead 2

Lego The Lord of the Rings

Lego The Hobbit

A Little to the Left

Lonely Mountains Downhill

Lumino City

Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor

Mind Over Magnet

Catherine

Mini Motorways

Mortal Kombat 9

Neon White

Spelunky 2

Spelunky

Spec Ops The Line

Sifu

A Short Hike

The Secret of Monkey Island

Samorost

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Nidhogg
1 vs 1 2D fighter

Mortal Kombat X
1 vs 1 gory 2D fighter

Olli Olli

Overcooked

Overlord
Third-person action-strategy game where you play as a dark lord and control small army of minions

Overlord 2

Peak

Phonopolis

Quantum Break
Third person action-adventure about time manipulation

Superhot
3D first-person

Tekken 7

Thomas Was Alone
2D platformer with minimalistic graphics and narrative

Toem

Toki Tori

Toki Tori 2

Untitled Goose Game
Third person stealth goose game

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Wise Garden

What Remains of Edith Finch

The Witness

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80 Days
Narrative adventure about steampunk version of Around the World in 80 days

Alan Wake
Action-adventure thriller with tv show structure

Alan Wake American Nightmare

Baba Is You

Batman Arkham Asylum

Borderlands 2

Braid
2D puzzle platformer with time manipulation mechanics

Celeste
2D platformer about climbing the mountain

Chuchel

Control

Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy

Creaks

Dark Echo

Dark Souls

Dead Island

Dead Island Riptide

Dorf Romantik

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

Fez

Fights in Tight Places

Firewatch

Grim Fandango

Grow Home

Grow Up

Hidden In Plain Sight

Hollow Knight

It Takes Two
3D Coop platformer about

Jusant

Left 4 Dead 2

Lego The Lord of the Rings

Lego The Hobbit

A Little to the Left

Lonely Mountains Downhill

Lumino City

Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor

Mind Over Magnet

Catherine

Mini Motorways

Mortal Kombat 9

Neon White

Spelunky 2

Spelunky

Spec Ops The Line

Sifu

A Short Hike

The Secret of Monkey Island

Samorost

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Nidhogg
1 vs 1 2D fighter

Mortal Kombat X
1 vs 1 gory 2D fighter

Olli Olli

Overcooked

Overlord
Third-person action-strategy game where you play as a dark lord and control small army of minions

Overlord 2

Peak

Phonopolis

Quantum Break
Third person action-adventure about time manipulation

Superhot
3D first-person

Tekken 7

Thomas Was Alone
2D platformer with minimalistic graphics and narrative

Toem

Toki Tori

Toki Tori 2

Untitled Goose Game
Third person stealth goose game

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Wise Garden

What Remains of Edith Finch

The Witness

Word Play
YBdesigning is a personal blog and guide into game design by Yelnar Bolatov, classical web & app UI/UX designer
Social
Bluesky
YouTube
Patreon
More
References
Top patrons
Changelog
About project