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(Katamari?)\n* Play as a brick layer\n* Mystery game sorting through piles of photos and papers\n\nControl the world, not the player\n* Control the weather\n* Click and drag to move the world around a character.\n* Astronaut goes unconcious. Save them by moving the space station around them to get them to safety.\n* Terrain is springy. Drag it and release to launch the player or objects.\n* Marble rolling game\n\nNomad\n* A game about bus \/ train hopping. Manage budget to reach goal.\n* Play as a migratory animal of some sort.\n* Travel through a procedural world trying to stay out of the rain.\n* Find a home. \n* Try to overcome anger.\n\nConnections\n* Something about social network friends\n* Thought-piece about 'Connections' in the time of Covid\n* Connect cities via transit\n* Manage electrical wires between buildings\n* Guide a character to make friends\n \nStuck in a loop\n* Escape a 'time-loop jail' \n* Figure out how to break some sort of cyclical system\n* A racing rogue-like where you move onto the next level if you win the lap.\n* Try to construct inescapable loops for an AI\n* Find and correct infinite loops in code.\n\nFeeding the monster\n* Minigolf on top of a monster's face. Aim for the mouth!\n* A factory to feed a creature.\n* Manage a society that requires constant sacrifices to a monster.\n* Struggle to break a bad habit. \n* Prevent your teammates from 'feeding' the monster and making it stronger.\n\nDelay the inevitable\n* Water is flooding. But try to block it.\n* Fight old age with: a time machine, weird remedies, etc.\n* Manage a bankrupt company so your employees don't get laid off. \n* Add support beams to an increasinly overburdened building.\n* Try to resist eating the last donut\n\nContain it\n* Zombie outbreak management\n* Horror tower defense trying to contain an unknown creature ('it') in the dark.\n* Play as mother nature trying to use disasters to set back humanity.\n* A game about moving homes and packing memories into containers.\n* Play as a vampire trying to live a regular life without giving in.\n\nDay and night\n* What if day and night were roommates? \n* Create a garden that works both during day and night. \n* 'Day' and their protector 'Knight'\n* Schedule a worker's day and night shifts when they have increasing costs.\n* Flip between day and night with a button press\n\nShipwrecked\n* Tower defense trying to setup traps for ships\n* Play as a siren trying to lure sailing ships\n* Jump between floating pieces of a wrecked boat. \n* 'Shipwreck' in space. Boost between chunks of spacecraft to reach escape pod.\n* Combine with the \"stuck in a loop\" theme and figure out how to prevent or survive the wreck.\n \nClockwork\n* Adjust clocks that control how fast different elements of a level move.\n* Play as a clock-person looking for gears needed to control time. \n* Platform through a giant tower to wind the clocks.\n* Use gears and levers to build machines to complete a level. \n* A game about a Casio watch.\n\nYou can't save them all\n* Increasingly absurd trolley problems.\n* Twitch reaction trolley problems\n* Try to save some candy for later without the kids stealing it\n* Earth is Dying. Repeatedly choose groups of people to try to start space colonies.\n* Your computer is about to force update but you have tons of programs open. 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