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Night Shift

The sun has disappeared from the sky! Darkness chokes the land, depriving it of all things good. Now it’s time for you to figure out how to bring the sun back! Get behind the wheel and find the sun in Night Shift!

★ SHUTTER ★ OBSCURITAS ★ IRIS.FALL ★ SPIRIT OF THE NORTH ★ THE ROOM ★ THERE IS NO GAME: WRONG DIMENSION ★ FRAN BOW ★ SHERLOCK HOLMES: CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS ★ MURDERS ON THE YANGTZE RIVER ★ THE MR. RABBIT MAGIC SHOW ★ CHANTS OF SENNAAR ★ THE ROOM THREE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Obscuritas

61% 👍 OF 219
About This Game

When Sarah inherits her great-uncle's old country home, she has no idea about the dark secret she has stumbled upon, and the obscure world it will take her to.

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Iris.Fall

88% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

Iris.Fall is a puzzle adventure game featuring striking visuals and a spellbinding theme of "light and shadow".

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shift Into Shadows
  • …Turn Shadows Into Paths
  • …Explore A Ruined Theater
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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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The Room

98% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use a strange eyepiece to reveal hidden markings, invisible clues, and a second layer of reality behind the shadows.
  • …open a cast-iron safe that keeps revealing another locked layer underneath, until the whole game is peeling back one impossible box.
  • …watch a normal-looking object unfold into a larger contraption, then warp into shapes that feel physically impossible yet still solvable.
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

98% 👍 OF 26K
About This Game

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fight the game itself as it tries to stop you from playing, clicking, or even uninstalling.
  • …bounce between completely different game genres and fake worlds, with each chapter swapping rules and visual style mid-adventure.
  • …drag, drop, and break the interface itself to solve puzzles, including literally rotating the game's box when told to think outside it.
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Fran Bow

97% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …solve puzzles by doing something in the horrific reality, then walking through the changed space in the normal one.
  • …lose the pills and switch the world through four seasons, changing people and the environment to unlock new solutions.
  • …play between-chapter mini-games that suddenly switch to different art styles like strange arcade interludes.
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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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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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The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show

98% 👍 OF 6.3K
About This Game

The incredible Mr. Rabbit invites you all to a mysterious magic show! Celebrate 10 years of Rusty Lake with a new free-to-play point-and-click adventure that promises to delight and… shock you with its sleight of hand!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Rabbit’s Stage Tricks
  • …Search for Hidden Cards
  • …Explore the Show’s Backstage
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Chants of Sennaar

98% 👍 OF 33K
About This Game

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …translate between two different peoples so a conversation can happen between groups that can't understand each other.
  • …build your own dictionary by annotating unknown glyphs, then lock in meanings by matching them to drawings.
  • …reach the top, watch the symbols rotate and transform, then escape a collapsing dreamlike world using the combined languages you rebuilt.
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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 “The Craftsman”. 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.