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01 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

86%

Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for. Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intri...

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86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Atari2600

Myst

80%

Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1993. Players explore a mysterious island filled with interactive environments, books, and clues that reveal its story. The gameplay focuses on solving logic-based puzzles and uncovering...

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80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

78%

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

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78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 The Room 4: Old Sins Cover

2018 · Android, PC, iOS

The Room 4: Old Sins

77%

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?

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77% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

77%

Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood f...

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77% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Gorogoa Cover

2017 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gorogoa

68%

Gorogoa is a beautiful hand-drawn story suspended inside a completely unique puzzle. Arrange and combine lavishly illustrated panels, each one a separate interactive window into a living game world.

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68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

66%

A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Kati...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

66%

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

09 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

66%

In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you play as Paul Prospero, an occult detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter and realizes that the boy is in grave danger. When Paul arrives in Ethan's home of Red Creek Valley, he realizes things are even...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Layers of Fear Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Layers of Fear

66%

Layers of Fear is a psychedelic horror that will keep you on-edge for the reminder of the game. Delve deep into the mind of an insane painter and discover the secret of his madness, as you walk through a constantly shifting house. Heavily inspired by the mast...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

65%

Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and tra...

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65% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Rusty Lake Paradise Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Paradise

65%

"Rusty Lake Paradise is set on a small remote island in the 18th Century. After your mother passed away the island seems to be cursed with the 10 plagues. It's your job to go around the island, interact with your family and help them vanquish the plague. The g...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Call of the Sea Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Call of the Sea

63%

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific, filled with secret...

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63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Blue Prince Cover

2025 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

Blue Prince

63%

Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will the unpredictable path you create lead you to the rumored Room 46?

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63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Rusty Lake: Roots Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake: Roots

62%

James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

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62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

60%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Circle of Blood Cover

1996 · DOS, Mac, PC

Circle of Blood

60%

Circle of Blood is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The player uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the environment and to guide protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world. To solve puzzles and progress in the...

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60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

59%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Twelve Minutes Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Twelve Minutes

57%

Twelve Minutes is a real-time top-down interactive thriller with an accessible click and drag interface. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe. The game blends the dream-like tension of The Shining with the claustrophobia of Rear Window and th...

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57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Thimbleweed Park Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Thimbleweed Park

57%

Thimbleweed Park is the curious story of two washed up detectives investigating a dead body found in the river just outside of town. It's a game where you switch between five playable characters while uncovering the dark, satirical and bizarre world of Thimble...

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57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Point-and-click Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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