Cocoon

Cocoon is Geometric Interactive's debut game and one of the most purely ingenious puzzle designs of 2023 — a wordless, atmospheric puzzle adventure from Jeppe Carlsen, the co-creator of Limbo and Inside, that manages to feel both accessible and mind-bending simultaneously. Playing as a small beetle-like creature on a strange alien world, you discover orbs that contain entire worlds inside them — worlds you can enter, explore, and carry back out into the outer world. The central mechanic of bringing worlds inside of other worlds to solve puzzles compounds in complexity with beautiful elegance, creating moments of profound "aha" revelation as you realize that the solution to a puzzle involves restructuring the nesting of realities themselves. The visual design is gorgeous — all clean geometric forms and otherworldly bioluminescence — and the atmospheric sound design is exceptional. Cocoon is a short, perfect, unforgettable experience.