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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 ★ SYBERIA ★ FIGMENT ★ MURDERS ON THE YANGTZE RIVER ★ BIPED ★ ESCAPE SIMULATOR ★ HOB ★ SEEN ★ TOEM: A PHOTO ADVENTURE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Piczle Cross Adventure

95% 👍 OF 295
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

89% 👍 OF 7.9K
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.

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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?

In this game, 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?

In this game, 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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Figment

87% 👍 OF 5.7K
About This Game

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

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Murders on the Yangtze River

97% 👍 OF 20K
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.

In this game, 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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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.

In this game, 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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Seen

91% 👍 OF 10.0K
About This Game

A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

In this game, 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 11K
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!

In this game, 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.