PUSH (2017)

[b]PUSH[/b] is an excellent and innovative Minimalist Puzzle game with relaxing ambient music and satisfying sounds.

In PUSH, you have floating devices with buttons on them, and you need to figure out what you need to do to keep each button pressed. It's as much a figure-out-the-rules-of-the-puzzle game as it is a puzzle game. Of course, buttons of a type will have the same behavior from one puzzle to the next, so there's room for increased complexity as it goes, and it was just enough to keep the whole thing interesting.

PUSH is a minimalist puzzle game developed by Maciej Targoni and Hamster On Coke Games and published by Hamster On Coke Games. Built around a single deceptively simple idea, the game demonstrates how elegant design can create a deeply satisfying puzzle experience without relying on complex visuals, elaborate narratives, or excessive mechanics. Through a series of carefully constructed challenges, PUSH invites players into a world where observation, experimentation, and logical thinking become the keys to progression. The game's premise is remarkably straightforward. Players are presented with abstract machines covered in buttons, switches, sliders, and other interactive components. The objective is simple: activate every required element and solve the puzzle. However, beneath this uncomplicated concept lies a surprising amount of depth. Each puzzle introduces unique arrangements and relationships between components, forcing players to study how every mechanism behaves and how each action affects the larger system. What initially appears to be a simple button-pressing exercise gradually evolves into a sophisticated test of reasoning and pattern recognition. One of PUSH's most impr…

Ouch, my poor brain... I pushed it too hard.

+ Short and sweet - Game have no cloud saving, no local saving, need to finish in one install as there is no checkpoint permanence

Not on the level of the others by this team, but still solid.