Games like Chess Brain

"Timelie is a single-player stealth puzzle adventure game with a unique time-controlling mechanic, where you guide a girl and a cat with precognitive abilities through a vibrant world, solving puzzles and avoiding enemies by manipulating the timeline to plan your escape strategy."

RUSH is a single-player musical game with unique 3D puzzle-solving mechanics and over 70 levels of increasing difficulty. Players guide cubes to color-coded exit points using conveyor belts, warps, stops signs, and more, with a drag and drop control system. The game boasts beautiful visuals, an outstanding soundtrack, and additional features such as a hint system, Steam achievements, and multiple profiles for Mac and PC.

KNIGHTS is a single-player puzzle game with a minimalistic art style, featuring a relaxing soundtrack and sound effects. The objective is to place colored knights on matching spaces by planning moves ahead. With dozens of handcrafted levels, a color-blind friendly palette, and 75 procedurally generated levels daily across five grid sizes, KNIGHTS offers a challenging and engaging experience for all.

"Stuck In Time" is a single-player, narrative-driven adventure game where you must help trapped souls move on from the mysterious house they inhabit. Utilize time manipulation abilities to solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and interact with the house's enigmatic inhabitants. With its unique gameplay and intriguing storyline, "Stuck In Time" offers a memorable and immersive gaming experience.

"Thronefall" is a strategy game that simplifies traditional strategy mechanics while incorporating hack-and-slash elements. Players build up their kingdom during the day, defend it at night, and balance economy and defense. The game offers various strategies, such as building archers, walls, or mills, and choosing between ranged combat or charging into battle. The goal is to survive the night and see the sunrise over your kingdom.

"DYSMANTLE" is an open-world, single-player or local co-op game with a dense atmosphere, interesting plot, and spectacular gameplay/graphics. You must escape a post-apocalyptic island by fighting creatures, breaking objects for materials, exploring, surviving, building outposts, crafting, hunting/taming animals, farming, and solving puzzles. The game is known for its humor, good music, and being very grinding.

Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!

SiNKR is a single-player, turn-based strategy puzzle game with outstanding visuals and spectacular music. Players must clean up each level by sinking all the pucks using hooks and various contraptions. With handcrafted levels, no scores, timers, or text, the game offers a unique and immersive puzzle experience. Highly acclaimed for its innovative gameplay, SiNKR has won numerous awards including Best Overall Game, Best Game Design, and Best in Show.

"Adventures of Shuggy" is a puzzle-platformer game where players control Shuggy, a small octopus, in more than 100 levels across various unique settings. Each level presents its own distinct challenge, requiring players to utilize Shuggy's abilities and think creatively to reach the goal. With its charming visuals and engaging gameplay, "Adventures of Shuggy" offers a delightful and entertaining experience for puzzle lovers.

Game development is hard.Before committing to Zapling Bygone, I created a ton of "Just for fun" projects. This allowed me to learn the ropes in an environment where it didn't matter if I failed. I created a load of small throwaway games for the fun of it. Some of these games got lost or deleted, and some were uncovered in the depths of my old harddrive. I decided to rescue as many of them as I cou…