Can you recommend me some surreal brainfucks?

prokopetz:

(With reference to this post here.)

Heh – sure:

• Dreaming Sarah – A puzzle platformer about a young woman who’s in a coma following an accident of unknown nature. Your task throughout the game is to expore Sarah’s mind and piece together exactly what happened. Fair warning: it gets kind of graphic in a couple of spots.
• Metrico+ – Do you like bar graphs? Because this game has bar graphs. It’s an abstract puzzler where you navigate terrain consisting of animated infographics; imagine living in an especially dry PowerPoint presentation and you’ll have the right idea. Despite appearances to the contrary, there actually is a story here, though a lot of players don’t get far enough to realise it, and that story is basically weird as hell.
• OneShot – This one’s recent enough and popular enough you’ve likely heard of it, but on the off chance that you haven’t, I’ve got to give it a plug. It’s about a young cat-person of indeterminate gender named Niko who’s been chosen as the Messiah, charged with restoring the Sun to a dying world. Note that I didn’t say “you play as”; it quickly transpires that the god Niko serves is you, the player, and as the Messiah they’re able to communicate with you.
• Ossuary – A puzzle game set in Purgatory. Your inventory consists of various mortal sins. I’d suggest giving it a go without assistance at first just for the atmosphere, but don’t hesitate to look up a guide if you’re well and truly stuck; some of the puzzles descend into some pretty severe moon-logic for their solutions.
• Rusty Lake: Roots – Less a unified game and more an anthology of variably challenging hidden object puzzles tied together by a nonlinear framing narrative. I think it’s about alchemy. Lots of gratuitous dismemberment; in particular, keep your distance if you have a thing about eye trauma.