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Worlds inside worlds inside worlds, and your brain bends a little more with each layer.
Cocoon by Geometric Interactive, led by Limbo and Inside puzzle designer Jeppe Carlsen, is built on one breathtaking idea: you carry entire worlds on your back as orbs, and you can step into those worlds, which themselves contain other orbs with other worlds. The puzzles emerge from nesting these realities, moving objects between layers, and exploiting the unique properties each world grants its orb. There is zero dialogue and no tutorial. The game trusts its design language so completely that every solution feels like a revelation you earned through observation.
Example
The moment you realize you need to place a world-orb onto a switch inside another world-orb to affect the outermost layer. Your brain does a small backflip as you track three nested realities simultaneously and it just works.
Why it matters
Cocoon demonstrated that puzzle design can still find completely unexplored territory. It proved Jeppe Carlsen's design philosophy outside of Playdead and set a new bar for wordless, tutorial-free puzzle communication.
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