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1Life 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.
DON'T NOD · 2015 · PS3, PS4, Linux · 79/100
2Vanripper · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac
3Lost and separated in an abandoned castle set in a frozen wasteland. Your only possession left is a walkie-talkie, with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the both of you find your way out in time?
Total Mayhem Games · 2017 · PS4, PC, SteamVR
4Beneath a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk, point and click, adventure game. You assume the role of Robert Foster and embark on a quest to make the world a better place, along with your robot companion Joey.
Revolution Software · 1994 · Amiga CD32, Linux, PC · 91/100
5You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
Mob Entertainment · 2021 · Xbox Series, PS4, Android
6Samorost is a short point-and-click adventure game. The goal is to help the little space gnome save his home asteroid from a collision with another asteroid by solving diverse puzzles.
Amanita Design · 2003 · Web, PC, Mac
7"Embark on an unforgettable social adventure and an ever-expanding world. Sky: Children of the Light is a heartwarming and beautifully animated social adventure experience designed to be played together by you and your loved ones. Set in a wonderland above the clouds, Sky invites you and your…
ThatGameCompany · 2019 · PS4, Android, PC · 82/100
8You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Rusty Lake · 2020 · Web, Android, PC
9The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Rusty Lake · 2018 · Android, PC, iOS
10You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you. A parody of Jonathan Blow's The Witness.
Subcreation Studio · 2022 · PC
11Transformice is a multiplayer game, where you are a small mouse out to get a cheese and bring the cheese back to the hole. The game includes a physics engine, so interactions between players are realistic. Each round lasts 2 minutes max, and in order to help the 20 or so mice-players to get the…
Atelier 801 · 2010 · Web, Linux, PC
12Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Amanita Design · 2021 · Android, PC, iOS
13What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Acke Hallgren · 2019 · Linux, PC, Mac
14NaissanceE is a first-person adventure game in which you play Lucy, a lone roamer who finds herself trapped inside an enormous, surreal architectural structure. The environment is built around large-scale geometric spaces with shifting architecture, and you must navigate its corridors through…
Limasse Five · 2014 · PC
15Welcome to the tunnel maintenance crew. If the generators fail, it's your job to fix them. Check what's wrong, craft all the needed parts and deliver them. It's simple. Just stay clear of anything that randomly cracks bolts of electricity, spews fire, throws sharp pieces of scrap at high-velocity…
Vanripper · 2024 · Linux, PC, Mac
16This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.
FLEB · 2024 · PC, Mac
17Hello Charlotte Ep.2 is a visual novelesque RPG with sci-fi elements and dark humor, written and drawn by etherane. Requiem Aeternam Deo follows the events of Ep.1: Junk Food, Gods and Teddy Bears.
etherane · 2016 · PC
18Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing. Plunge your sword deep into the dragon’s heart! How deep is your resolve?
Cosmic Adventure Squad · 2021 · Web, Android, PC
19Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. You play as Anthony Clyde, who, after a heavy night of partying, wakes up to find himself in an unfamiliar bed with no memory of the previous night's events. Unfortunately, escaping these unfamiliar, opulent surroundings will prove to be no…
Creability · 2014 · Linux, PC, Mac · 80/100
20Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless…
DePaul University students · 2010 · PC
21Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Devcats · 2023 · Linux, PC
22Unsolved Case is the free prequel to the popular cooperative point-and-click puzzle game 'Cryptic Killer' series. Dip your toes in and go back to where it all began as you team up in two as detective duo Old Dog and Ally, up against the Cryptic Killer. For the first time in the series, you'll…
Eleven Puzzles · 2022 · Android, PC, iOS
23Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Leef 6010 · 2020 · Linux, PC, Mac
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25Something terrible has happened. You can’t bear to think about it - but you can’t live like this anymore. You stopped attending school, you haven’t left your house in months, you have no reason to get out of bed anymore. There are no choices left. No choice except... that strange golden letter.…
Leef 6010 · 2024 · Linux, PC, Mac
26Find 100 cats hiding in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game.
Travellin Cats · 2023 · PC
27100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. Can you find them all?
100 Hidden Animals · 2023 · PC
28The 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!
Rusty Lake · 2025 · Android, PC, iOS
29You receive a call from Hope, a woman trapped inside a mysterious totalitarian state. Hacking into an elaborate surveillance network, you guide Hope through a web of danger and deception across five thrilling episodes. Developed over five years by industry veterans (Metal Gear Solid 4, Halo 4…
GungHo Online Entertainment America · 2014 · Stadia, PS4, Android · 76/100
30We Went Back is a sci-fi time-looping horror game located on an abandoned lunar station. Explore, deduce, and unleash terror in order to find a way out.
Dead Thread Games Team · 2020 · PC
