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Rules & Rodents

A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! ๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ€ Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!

★ PICZLE CROSS ADVENTURE ★ SHERLOCK HOLMES: CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS ★ THE ROOM 4: OLD SINS ★ THE ROOM THREE ★ CALL OF THE SEA ★ MURDERS ON THE YANGTZE RIVER ★ SERVANT OF THE LAKE ★ ESCAPE SIMULATOR ★ SPIRIT OF THE NORTH ★ BIG WALK ★ SEEN ★ TOEM: A PHOTO ADVENTURE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Piczle Cross Adventure

94% 👍 OF 302
About This Game

Piczle Cross Adventure takes the classic nonogram logic-puzzle and turns it into something never before experienced in the genre: a story-driven, RPG-style 2D graphical adventure! Follow our heroes Score-chan, Gig and professor Matrix as they tackle their most daunting challenge yet.

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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

90% 👍 OF 8.1K
About This Game

Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Inspect Crime Scenes
  • …Read Suspects' Appearance
  • …Search Holmes's Archives
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The Room 4: Old Sins

98% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …crawl into a dollhouse and treat its rooms like real places.
  • …use a magical lens to look into the model and step inside it.
  • …finish a room and watch black tentacles swallow it, sealing it off so you can't go back.
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The Room Three

95% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as โ€œThe Craftsmanโ€. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …step into a keyhole-sized mechanism, rearrange it from the inside, then pop back out to watch the real lock open.
  • …reach an ending, then learn it was a trap and get thrown back in for a harder route to the real escape.
  • …finish the main story, then "change your fate" by hunting down hidden artifacts across previously visited rooms to open alternate endings.
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Call of the Sea

88% 👍 OF 6.4K
About This Game

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Follow Harry's Trail
  • …Explore Tropical Ruins
  • …Decode Ancient Symbols
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Murders on the Yangtze River

97% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch the steamship glide down the Yangtze between cases, with hand-drawn landscapes and poems as your travel scenes.
  • …cross-examine a suspect line by line, then pick the exact sentence your evidence contradicts.
  • …follow a mystery that starts with your brother ruled a suicide in London, then find a Shanghai detective novel describing the exact same death.
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Servant of the Lake

98% 👍 OF 7.5K
About This Game

Begin your new job as a servant at the mysterious Vanderboom estate. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake, a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …follow hidden clues to unlock a secret ending, then replay earlier puzzles differently to reveal the next step.
  • …explore a mansion that reconfigures itself as doors lock on the family's schedule and rooms show up where they shouldn't.
  • …write and draw your own clues in a journal that also tracks tasks, chapters, and achievements.
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Escape Simulator

94% 👍 OF 19K
About This Game

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …create your own escape rooms and play thousands of community-made rooms from the workshop.
  • …jump into your friend's inspection view and watch them rotate an object live while you read the same book together.
  • …play a Portal-themed room where you escape Aperture Science Laboratories.
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Spirit of the North

84% 👍 OF 6.6K
About This Game

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore as a Red Fox
  • …Charge Magical Flowers
  • …Activate Runestones
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Big Walk

96% 👍 OF 40K
About This Game

Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …join a full party of 12 strangers online.
  • …carry a lost friend's body across the journey as an honor guard instead of leaving them behind.
  • …get separated by distance until voices fade out, then coordinate over walkie-talkies by describing landmarks like trees.
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Seen

91% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …cover your ears to block damage while the game keeps playing muffled, distorted noise through your hands.
  • …see gunfire, then watch the walls and ceiling squeeze inward until there's almost no space left to move.
  • …thread through blue hope orbs while dodging red depression orbs, with your pickups snapping to the music's rhythm.
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TOEM: A Photo Adventure

99% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pet every pet you find, honk, and listen to unlocked walkman tracks while your character actually puts on headphones.
  • …set up a tripod, hide out of sight, and wait to photograph shy monsters without them noticing you.
  • …nap to swap day and night, then pelt things with water balloons in the free expansion area.