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FREEWARE Stairways to Heaven (or possibly Hell)

Much like the Daleks, your greatest enemy in this spatially tricky puzzle game is the humble stair. There are hundreds of them, leading this way and that, as in the drawings of MC Escher. While it’s a little disappointing that your character can’t automatically walk up sheer walls, like David Bowie in that bit in Labyrinth, it’s almost as good seeing the centre of gravity shift when you enter convenient doorways (and probably a whole lot easier to code). Before it even introduces elements like switches and crates, Fragments is already a puzzling game—your greatest challenge is to find your way around, to piece together a world that loops together in fascinating ways.