Top-Rated Free Mystery Games on Steam

136 free Mystery games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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SCP – Containment Breach - Players say: As a Class-D subject in a breached SCP facility, scavenge access items, evade anomalies, and manage blinking to escape. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Blinking Under Threat · Community Bug Fixes ·
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A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It - Players say: In a snowbound Soviet closed city, outcast Asya searches for missing classmate Ira and prepares a radio message to the universe. Players like: Emotional Writing · Atmospheric Art and Music · Relatable Asya ·
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USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

Welcome To The Dark Place - Players say: Navigate a surreal horror world through text and sound, chart its grid, solve puzzles, and search for the train out. Players like: Immersive Sound Design · DIY Mapmaking · Surreal Horror Writing ·
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The train is the only escape.

Days Without Incident - Players say: Investigate a deserted metalworks where workers died, solving factory puzzles and surviving monsters in a first-person horror game. Players like: Eerie Factory Atmosphere · Effective Sound Design · Intriguing Story Clues ·
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It has been -̷̯͙̔̈́-̴̱̽̓͝-̷̍̊̕͠  days without incident. Your investigation has brought you to an old metalworks factory, abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. But something’s been growing in the quiet. A short first-person survival horror experience.

A Simple job - Players say: Take a job with one rule—don’t press the red button—and see how your choices and a taunting narrator change the ending. Players like: Narrator's Humor · Multiple Endings · Achievement Hunting ·
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💼 A simple task: Don’t press the red button. Sounds easy? 😏 Featuring an annoying voice, absurd endings, and too many achievements. Free. Pointless. Glorious. 🤡🔴

The Children of Clay - Players say: As an archaeologist, inspect a strange clay artifact, cross-reference clues in books, and uncover a folkloric horror at your desk. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Stop-Motion Art · Artifact Investigation ·
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The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

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Mar 7, 2025
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Garten of Banban 0 - Players say: As Flumbo, explore Banban’s Kindergarten, meet its mascot residents, solve puzzles, and uncover clues to the establishment’s past. Players like: Enjoyable Puzzles · Prequel Lore · Quirky Characters ·
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Explore the origins of the mysterious Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the dark past of the establishment. Try to make some friends. Uncover the truth behind the place, and who you are…

Project Hailstorm - Players say: As part of an Antarctic recovery team, explore an abandoned dig site, solve simple environmental puzzles, and investigate a buried mystery. Players like: Immersive Atmosphere · Striking Visuals · Effective Sound Design ·
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Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Nirvana - Players say: Play as Ari, a young earthling in a mystical temple, combining fast first-person bullet-hell combat, platforming, and new powers. Players like: Fast, Fluid Movement · Enjoyable Combat · Energetic Soundtrack ·
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Wake up and embrace your new powers. In this Bullet Hell Fast-FPS, dare to take on mystical creatures to defeat the God Raj. Nirvana awaits...

Moral Dilemma: The Interview - Players say: Attend a surreal job interview, explore a shifting office, tackle strange tests and dilemmas, and uncover hidden routes. Players like: Quirky Humor · Fourth-Wall Narration · Surprising Office Gags ·
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A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.

Scauage - Players say: As a scavenger in an abandoned house, search for valuables by flashlight, solve coded locks, and face consequences for what you take. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Immersive Sound Design · Tension Without Jumpscares ·
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Scauage is a short horror experience where you play as a scavenger looting an abandoned house, uncovering its dark secrets and collecting hidden treasures while facing what lurks within.

Nightmare House: The Original Mod - Players say: Explore a haunted house and hospital, solve puzzles, and fight undead with guns and an axe in this first-person horror campaign. Players like: Oppressive Horror Atmosphere · Fight-Back Combat · Effective Scares ·
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Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.

Deathless Death - Players say: As a priest, explore four linked sinners’ memories through point-and-click puzzles, then choose whether to forgive or condemn them. Players like: Distinctive Artwork · Stylized Interactions · Atmospheric Music ·
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In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.

The Happyhills Homicide - Players say: Plan killings as a slasher and investigate the crimes as a detective in a pixel-art horror game. Players like: Retro Slasher Atmosphere · Pixel-Art Gore · Killer-Detective Switch ·
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Welcome to Happyhills, the town where you can indulge your deepest desires, make your wildest dreams come true, and slaughter anyone in your path. In this case, all three of these are the same. Welcome the citizens of Happyhills in your way!

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Nov 4, 2024
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Tales of Rein Ravine - Players say: Train as an equestrian student in an alpine town, learning detailed horse controls through riding lessons, dressage and cross-country. Players like: Realistic Riding Controls · Detailed Riding Lessons · Distinct Horse Temperaments ·
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Tales of Rein Ravine is an indie horse game that aims to challenge its players with unique real-life inspired riding, as well as tell an intriguing equestrian story to a young adult audience.

Morimens - Players say: As Keeper, lead four Awakeners against Kadath’s eldritch threat, building card combos and navigating unpredictable roguelite runs. Players like: Deckbuilding Synergies · Lovecraftian Art · Story and Lore ·
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Morimens is a roguelite card-battler inspired by the Lovecraftian mythos. Bond with a diverse cast of Awakeners, build your perfect deck, and battle through the mists of Kadath—facing wild events and uncovering maddening truths at every turn.

Krypta FM - Players say: Investigate a rumored cryptid in a Polish village, using radio reports and forum posts to guide your nighttime photo hunts. Players like: Polish Village Atmosphere · Early-Internet Nostalgia · Radio and Forum ·
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Can you solve the mystery of the Beast of Gozdary?

Dark Hours: Prologue - Players say: A supernatural event traps a crew of thieves in an auction house; steal valuables, evade monsters, and work together to escape. Players like: Chaotic Co-op Moments · Scary Monster Encounters · Tense Audio Atmosphere ·
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Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap - Players say: House-sit a home where claps control the lights, finish routine chores, and confront signs that someone else can clap. Players like: Creepy Atmosphere · Clap-Controlled Lights · Effective Scares ·
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Clap Clap is a short indie horror game that puts you in the shoes of a house sitter, experiencing strange occurrences in a seemingly ordinary home.

Mimic Search - Players say: As a rural police officer, investigate a mimic attack through witness interviews and a search of the snowy woods. Players like: Creepy VHS Atmosphere · Tense Forest Search · Short One-Sitting Horror ·
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Mimic Search is a short indie horror game, in which you take the role of a police officer investigating a recent mimic attack.

Banana - Players say: Click a banana to build a counter, collect randomly dropped banana skins every three hours, and pursue achievements. Players like: Easy Achievements · Absurd Banana Humor · Passive Background Drops ·
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Banana is a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in discord. Come hang out with us and let's grow into something awesome !

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 - Players say: As park ranger Ethan Hill in 1981 West Virginia, investigate disappearances by exploring locations, collecting clues, and solving puzzles. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Challenging Puzzles · Detailed Visuals ·
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Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 is the first part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

Bendy: Secrets of the Machine - Players say: Explore Gent's shifting Drawing Room, experiment with objects, and solve cryptic puzzles to uncover secrets in the Bendy world. Players like: Eerie Atmosphere · Hidden Lore Clues · Interactive Teaser ·
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Some things are better left forgotten.

Palia - Players say: Settle into a fantasy world where you gather, craft, farm, and befriend villagers while uncovering the mysteries of ancient humans. Players like: Relaxed No-Combat Play · Home Decorating · Varied Gathering Skills ·
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Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

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Mar 25, 2024
86% 👍
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The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom. - Players say: Read a strange fairy tale as a child promised to a godparent, choosing paths through its mysteries to shape your fate. Players like: Branching Story Paths · Storybook Presentation · Folklore-Rich Writing ·
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A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

Rental - Players say: As rabbit girl Umi, explore a strange beachside rental, search for ritual items, and navigate a mirror maze in a short horror adventure. Players like: Cute Retro Art · Eerie Cozy Atmosphere · Umi's Dry Humor ·
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Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.

Rabbit Hole - Players say: As Disc, descend a shifting 2D rabbit hole, battling foes and bosses with changing weapons to find your heart. Players like: Demanding Boss Fights · Weapon Variety · Art and Music ·
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Rabbit Hole is a fast paced, tough-as-nails 2D RogueLike-Shooter, made with love for the genre. You are Disc, someone who was suddenly brought to the Rabbit Hole. Collect guns, fight foes and meet strange new characters on your descent to the bottom, all in an attempt to find your heart again.

Please, Touch The Artwork 2 - Players say: Guide a wandering skeleton through James Ensor’s paintings, finding objects for locals and repairing torn canvases with simple puzzles. Players like: Lively Painting Art · Relaxing Classical Music · Calm Gallery Exploration ·
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A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no IAP).

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Feb 19, 2024
99% 👍
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure - Players say: Guide a living plush sheep through a ruined facility, gaining movement abilities to platform, face threats, and uncover its past. Players like: Soundtrack and Sound · Pixel-Art Atmosphere · Smooth Platforming ·
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A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

Paper Lily - Chapter 1 - Players say: Guide anxious Lacie through a supernatural hidden world, exploring, solving flexible puzzles, and making choices that shape outcomes. Players like: Intriguing Story · Flexible Puzzles · Memorable Art And Music ·
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Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

TEST TEST TEST - Players say: An overworked office employee relives a 15-minute day, searching rooms and cracking cryptic, real-world-linked puzzles to escape. Players like: Unexpected Puzzle Solutions · ARG-Style Puzzles · Satisfying Breakthroughs ·
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Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

The Backrooms: Unbounded - Players say: A police officer slips into the Backrooms, exploring eerie levels, solving door puzzles, and avoiding lurking entities. Players like: Unsettling Atmosphere · Backrooms Exploration · Simple Door Puzzles ·
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The Backrooms: Unbounded is a Free Simple Linear single player first person body camera horror game based on the backrooms. You take the role of a police officer who noclips out of reality while on duty. Will you make it out alive?

Pinball FX Midnight - Players say: Play horror-themed pinball, aiming shots and completing table challenges while chasing high scores and unlocking customizations. Players like: Horror Table Themes · Enjoyable Pinball Play · Visuals And Effects ·
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Get ready to tilt into terror. The new horror-inspired pinball platform for fearless players. Prove your skills on the most sinister, gory, and badass tables ever brought to life.

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Nov 30, 2023
79% 👍
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BLACK BOX LSS - The Shining Immortal - Players say: A new recruit pursues his formidable boss as office romance meets a missing-person case in a futuristic pixel-art visual novel. Players like: Distinctive Pixel Art · Compelling Main Characters · Atmospheric Music ·
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Immerse yourself in a pixel-art visual novel that blends thrilling crime, romantic comedy, and the pursuit of love. This game depicts the story of a new employee pursuing his female boss.

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Oct 19, 2023
98% 👍
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Romance Club - Stories I Play - Players say: Customize a protagonist and guide romantic, fantastical, and mystery stories through choices that shape relationships and endings. Players like: Story Variety · Memorable Characters · Meaningful Choices ·
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Immerse yourself in romantic visual stories where you control what happens!

Wolvesville - Players say: In 16-player matches, take a hidden village or werewolf role, use abilities and debate to expose rivals or deceive the group. Players like: Distinctive Role Variety · Bluffing And Deduction · Playing With Friends ·
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Wolvesville is a multiplayer game for up to 16 players. Each game has different teams such as villagers or werewolves all fighting to be the last team standing. Use special abilities to uncover the roles of other players and convince your fellow players to work with you.

Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories - Players say: As a henchman racing to a criminal-organization interview, solve sewer escape-room puzzles alone or with up to four others. Players like: Creative, Varied Puzzles · Fun With Friends · Satisfying Challenge ·
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'Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories' is a humorous co-operative escape room game where you are a henchman who has to make his way through variety of puzzles to make it to a job interview on time. Can you solve all of the puzzles that stand in the way of your employment?

Alone in the Dark Prologue - Players say: As 11-year-old Grace, deliver a letter through Derceto Manor, exploring its halls as uncanny events disrupt the journey. Players like: Haunting Atmosphere · Strong Visuals · Intriguing Setting ·
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This stand-alone prologue puts you in the tiny shoes of Grace Saunders – an 11-year-old girl delivering a letter, when things go horribly wrong… Experience the unique 1920s horror atmosphere of Alone in the Dark and prepare for the terror that awaits in Derceto Manor

Wretched Depths - Players say: As Sam, fish Lake Imperium, sell strange catches for better gear, and explore deeper as unsettling secrets emerge around Twin Pines. Players like: Retro PSX Atmosphere · Horror Meets Fishing · Simple Fishing Loop ·
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Play as Sam and fish to your hearts content, sell fish you've caught, collect better gear, and use it to explore the depths of the mysterious lake, but be warned as no one knows what lies at the bottom. Wretched Depths is a PSX-style horror fishing game created by students at the University of Utah.

SCP: Observer - Players say: Trapped in a security room during a containment breach, monitor SCPs, ration emergency power, and seal doors to survive. Players like: SCP–FNAF Crossover · Tense Horror Atmosphere · Camera And Power Strategy ·
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SCP: Observer is a frightening experience in which you'll play the role of a maintenance engineer trapped inside a security room. Survive by managing the emergency power supply, monitoring the facility's camera system for threats and blocking the paths of oncoming horrors.

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog - Players say: As a new Mirage Express employee, help Tails investigate Sonic’s apparent murder by searching train cars and questioning suspects. Players like: Characterful Dialogue · Hand-Drawn Art · Lighthearted Mystery ·
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Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

The Test: Secrets of the Soul - Players say: Answer personal questions in an eerie psychological test, then receive a closing interpretation and a single “gifted” word. Players like: Thought-Provoking Questions · Personal Final Reading · Eerie Atmosphere ·
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You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

Missing Hiker - Players say: Drive into a snowy wilderness and search on foot for your missing brother in a brief, first-person horror mystery. Players like: Creepy Atmosphere · Retro VHS Look · Surprise Scares ·
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Missing Hiker is a short indie horror game, where your brother Ethan went missing while hiking and you need to find him.

United heist - Players say: Two thieves tackle a mysterious job from separate rooms, trading spoken clues to infiltrate locations and solve co-op puzzles. Players like: Co-op Communication · Team Puzzle Solving · Approachable Challenge ·
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Your crew consists of two elite thieves. A client hires you to steal a mysterious item. One handles intel; the other infiltrates. Choose your roles and master the heist in this asymmetric co-op puzzle game.

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Feb 12, 2023
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Locke(d) - Players say: Wake across from a stranger, question freedom and identity in conversation, and inspect a few objects in a short visual novel. Players like: Thoughtful Freedom Themes · Fourth-Wall Moments · Atmospheric Art And Sound ·
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An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?

Unsolved Case - Players say: Two detectives face a Cryptic Killer challenge, sharing clues across separate screens to crack codes and solve co-op puzzles. Players like: Co-op Communication · Collaborative Puzzles · Comic-Style Art ·
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A new lead turns up old doubts about an 'Unsolved Case'. A trap, or a copycat killer? In this co-op puzzle game prequel to the award-winning Cryptic Killer series, put on your detective badges as you collaborate and communicate to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and catch the Cryptic Killer.

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Nov 24, 2022
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Trapped with Jester - Players say: Wake amnesiac in a carriage with a strange jester, then shape a short horror visual novel through dialogue choices. Players like: Jester's Voice Acting · Distinctive Character Art · Memorable Jester ·
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An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?

Bakso Simulator - Players say: Run an Indonesian bakso stall: manage supplies and staff, fend off trouble, complete town quests, and grow the business. Players like: Restaurant Management · Relaxing Side Activities · Town Quests ·
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Create the most successful bakso business in this world!

Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories - Players say: As a burglar locked in jail, inspect rooms, piece together clues, and solve escape-room puzzles alone or with up to four others. Players like: Challenging Logic Puzzles · Fun With Friends · Atmospheric Rooms ·
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"Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories" is a series of co-operative escape-room style puzzle scenarios. Each one is sure to test your wits as you try to overcome the challenges that stand in the way of your escape.

Tvö - Players say: Two players awaken on opposite sides of a shadowy maze, sharing clues through magical orbs to solve puzzles and find a way out. Players like: Engaging Co-op Puzzles · Creepy Maze Atmosphere · Fun With Friends ·
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Tvö is an online cooperative puzzle game where two players must use their wits and communication skills to find a way into the heart of the labyrinth. This game can be played using our in-game voice chat or a third-party option.

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Jul 31, 2022
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