Cocoon
A puzzle game in which the player controls a beetle who can hop between worlds, solving puzzles to unravel the universe’s mysteries. In the 2023 puzzle-adventure game Cocoon, players take control of a nameless, bipedal insectoid creature that awakens from a biomechanical pod in a barren, alien desert. The narrative is entirely wordless and abstract, leaving the player to piece together the cosmic lore through environmental design and interaction. Soon after emerging, the protagonist discovers that their entire starting reality is actually contained within a portable, glowing orb. By utilizing specialized machinery, the creature can leap out of this world and carry the orb on its back like a shell, uncovering a grander system of nested, recursive realities that exist like Russian nesting dolls. To progress, the insectoid must journey across vastly different dimensions—each color-coded and