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I see your point about The Witness. It has been a while since I played it, but now that you mentioned it, I agree it contain puzzles of both types.  Better examples: A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Trainyard, Puzzle of Jellies.

Regarding your suggestion about the search, I guess it is helpful, but my point was that they are just no belong under the same category. I believe the appeal to different audiences.

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I Checked them out. I'm not saying it is not a puzzle game. I'm just saying it is a completely different genre than the games I mentioned. It is actually a good example to the escape room type games I'm talking about. You just guess, click everything until something happens. You don't know if this is the solution until you try.  

https://itch.io/t/1010509/escape-room-type-games-should-have-a-genre-separate-fr...

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(As far as I understand, a genre is a type of tag). I think "Escape Room" puzzle games and games such as those I mentioned in the post above (Baba Is You, The Witness, Snakebird) are two completely different things and should not be put under the same genre.

Stating your opinion and thoughts about it in the post above would be appreciated.

Currently on the website games can have more the than one genre, so that's not a problem. See my Reply to mid for differences. Obviously there is always a grey area. 

Can you recommend a good one?

In puzzle games you are given all the information up front. Theoretically you can solve it just by looking at it and using deductive reasoning (once you know the mechanism). Examples:

• Baba Is You
• The Witness (contains both)
• Snakebird
• A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
• Stephen's Sausage Roll
• Trainyard
• Puzzle of Jellies

Escape room games are more about exploring and guessing. Often you don't know if a solution is correct until you try. There isn't much thinking, except trying to guess what the creator was thinking when he/she made it.
I'm not arguing about the names. It can be for "Mechanism Puzzles" vs. "Escape Room Puzzles" for example. I'm just saying the are two completely different things.

Escape room games are not puzzle games

Escape room games and logic puzzles games do not belong to the same category