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2026 PC 16.99 €

You dig through the abandoned profiles of an old PC in a point-and-click mystery, uncovering an eerie secret. Puzzles, cryptic games and outdated software piece together what happened to its previous user.

What defines Desktop Explorer:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots to discover
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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Her Story

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2015 PC 9.75 € 👍 90 % Very positive, 9,732 reviews on Steam

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Lots to discover

You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.

The Mirror Lied

Accessible and relaxed

A short, atmospheric indie adventure from Freebird Games in which you play a little girl named Leah exploring an empty house with no way out, gradually uncovering its strange secrets.

Homesick

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric first-person puzzle game about exploring an abandoned building, solving puzzles and piecing together what happened to its former residents. The serene yet foreboding mood is broken up by unsettling nightmare sequences.

The White Door

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark point-and-click puzzle adventure from Rusty Lake: as an amnesiac patient you follow the clinic's daily routine and dive into dreams to uncover Robert Hill's past. The story is told almost wordlessly.

Blameless

Dark, serious atmosphere

A short first-person adventure where you play an architect solving puzzles to uncover a violent act and the strange events around it. The focus is on puzzles and a compact, mysterious story.

Ether One

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person adventure in which you enter the fading memories of a dementia patient as a memory-therapy worker. Tricky puzzles and a moving story about losing the mind drive the experience.

What Never Was

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short first-person narrative puzzle game where you play Sarah clearing out her grandfather's attic, uncovering puzzles and secrets that reveal the place is not what it seems.

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