Garden of Cogs

Garden of Cogs is the sort of puzzler that makes you feel clever. You assemble gears, ramps, and belts to carry little seeds to their pots. Each level is a tiny machine you design yourself, and there's real joy in watching your build finally work.

It's forgiving — you can rewind, tweak, and re-run as many times as you like. That freedom means the puzzles can get devious without ever feeling unfair.

Later levels introduce timing and multiple seeds at once, which pushed my brain harder than I expected from something this cozy. A quiet favorite.

What we liked

• Build-it-yourself contraption puzzles
• Unlimited rewind and tweaking
• Cozy look, sneaky-hard late levels