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CD-ROM

10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.

★ EPIGRAPH ★ THE CRIMSON DIAMOND ★ LEGAL DUNGEON ★ THE WILD CASE ★ THE DARKSIDE DETECTIVE: A FUMBLE IN THE DARK ★ BOXES: LOST FRAGMENTS ★ STRANGE HORTICULTURE ★ PUZZLE AGENT ★ THE SEXY BRUTALE ★ THE INCIDENT AT GALLEY HOUSE ★ THE ROOM 4: OLD SINS ★ FIREWORK ★ WE ♥ IT 
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The Crimson Diamond

97% 👍 OF 709
About This Game

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Type Detective Commands
  • …Eavesdrop on Guests
  • …Examine Mineral Samples
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Legal Dungeon

78% 👍 OF 594
About This Game

Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Sort Police Case Files
  • …Build Legal Arguments
  • …Question Suspects
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The Wild Case

86% 👍 OF 257
About This Game

The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.

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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

96% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Paranormal Cases
  • …Combine Oddball Items
  • …Explore Haunted Locations
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Boxes: Lost Fragments

93% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

As a legendary thief, your next assignment lures you into a grand and lavish mansion. There you find a series of puzzle boxes, designed for an unknown purpose. What should have been a quick in-and-out, gradually turns into your own harrowing struggle for freedom and answers.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Open Layered Puzzle Boxes
  • …Find Hidden Switches
  • …Turn Gears and Levers
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Strange Horticulture

94% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …choose to help, hinder, or straight-up poison recurring characters, and have those deliveries alter the story.
  • …kill a guy with plants, awaken an ancient horror, and later feed a police officer to a plant when he tries to arrest you.
  • …decipher cryptic letters and context, then click specific squares on a grid map to uncover hidden locations and new plants.
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Puzzle Agent

89% 👍 OF 2.8K
About This Game

Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Investigate Scoggins
  • …Solve Logic Brainteasers
  • …Question Strange Townsfolk
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The Sexy Brutale

92% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch someone once, then scrub a timeline map to see where everyone is at any minute.
  • …save a guest, take their mask, and gain a new power that opens locked routes and secrets.
  • …manipulate events to save people without ever sharing a room with anyone.
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The Incident at Galley House

94% 👍 OF 4.9K
About This Game

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Operate the Echo Machine
  • …Match People to Moments
  • …Rebuild a Fractured Timeline
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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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Firework

98% 👍 OF 44K
About This Game

An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …reopen a closed massacre case when a funeral coffin catches fire.
  • …talk to the dead to pull out hidden memories that advance your investigation.
  • …watch the world abruptly shift between reality, remembered scenes, and the realm of the dead as you chase clues.