While Stip has been in the public eye for some time now — it won the Most Anticipated Belgian Game Award for 2026 — developer SixtyFour has officially announced the number puzzle game for PC. In the game, rules are discovered, puzzles misbehave, and looking too closely may be a mistake. While it might seem like a basic puzzle game, the narrative layers of dark secrets unlock as you progress. The developer categorizes it as a “Metroidbrainia” puzzle game.
“Hi there! Please, come in and enjoy our number puzzles. Use the constraints to assign the correct numbers. Assign, undo, deduce, repeat. Please refrain from touching anything else. There are more puzzles for you, that way. Please ignore any odd behaviour, we’ll have that looked at. You are doing great!”
– Stip
Stip is a number puzzle game where the player uses a set of constraints to determine which numbers fit into a series of dots. However, these constraints are now always obvious, and players will have to experiment, assign, undo, and deduce to decipher them. The game’s puzzles are laid out in maze-like rooms that also hide secrets. Use items and environmental clues to find said secrets, off-kilter puzzles, and hidden puzzle rules. As for the puzzles themselves, players cannot trust them. They will entice you, flatter you, and shower you with random facts about numbers, anything to keep your mind focused straight ahead.
Here are Stip’s key features, via SixtyFour:
- Number Puzzle Goodness: Do you want to sit down and play some relaxing number puzzles? Stip can be that game for you. Find comfort in some quick deductions and dopamine-inducing special effects.
- An Intricate Puzzle Box: Stip’s puzzles are laid out in rooms that have their own puzzles. Use items, manipulate the environment, and look for hidden clues to find more secrets hidden within.
- Rule Discovery: Players will need to think laterally by deducing constraints, finding hidden puzzle rules that give them an edge, and pulling on threads that the game wants to keep from them.
- The puzzles are evil: Stip is a virus, a parasite that craves your attention. It’ll offer you new mechanics to keep you engaged, make numbers go up, and offer you motivational confetti to keep you from looking too closely and push you to keep solving puzzles.
- Transmedia Clues: Keep your eyes on social media, trailers, real-life events, store pages and even the press releases, as they may contain hidden codes to unlock more secrets!
Today’s reveal trailer includes a secret code at the end; prospective players may want to rewatch and write it down to receive a nice surprise in the game’s demo and full launch.
Developed and published by SixtyFour, Stip will be released for PC via Steam later this year.
Buy the hottest games with Amazon.
By purchasing from this link, you support DDNet.
Each sale earns us a small commission.
