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Off-Planet Dreams is a delightfully tricky Playdate platformer with invisible puzzles

Off-Planet Dreams is a Playdate game that will show you everything you need to do, or nothing at all.

Because of that, it feels uniquely accessible for what it is — an “invisible puzzle platformer” designed to trip you up over and over again until you’ve learned enough from your mistakes to move forward. Here, I eventually caved and enabled “Show” just to give my brain some space to work out what the puzzle was without having to worry about remembering platforms. The game throws a curveball at you about halfway through when it introduces a new mechanic that requires the crank, which I thought was really clever once I got over the initial frustration of not knowing what the hell was going on.

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