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2019USK 12PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable96 % positive16.79 €

You play a volunteer moderator in a surreal 90s-style internet, digging through fake websites, emails and apps. You solve small cases, uncover hidden pages and enjoy nostalgic humor wrapped around a surprisingly serious story.

  • Lots to discover
  • Lots of humour
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Open world

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The Roottrees Are Dead

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2025PCSteam Deck playable96 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Hypnospace Outlaw: lots to discover, puzzles to figure out and a strong story.

A detective puzzle set in the 1998 internet: you dig through websites and archives to gather clues and reconstruct the family tree of the secretive Roottree dynasty piece by piece.

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Bugsnax

Lots of humour

On an island of half-bug, half-snack creatures, you catch Bugsnax with clever traps and gadgets to win over the quirky residents of a stranded village. Zany humor and a surprisingly heartfelt mystery about the missing explorer drive the story.

Smile For Me

Lots of humour

A heartbroken clown helps the odd residents of a surreal, brightly colored Habitat while hunting the enigmatic Doctor Habit. A quirky point-and-click adventure mixing puzzles, offbeat humor and unexpectedly dark undertones.

Tangle Tower

Lots of humour

A humorous point-and-click murder mystery set in a bizarre mansion, where you question eccentric suspects, gather clues and solve puzzles, all wrapped in a striking hand-drawn cartoon style.

Thimbleweed Park

Lots of humour

A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Lots of humour

An episodic point-and-click comedy starring the chaotic detective duo Sam and Max, where Max's psychic powers like future sight and teleportation drive the puzzles. Absurd humor and a wacky story about eldritch gods and space villains take center stage.

Stacking

Lots of humour

You play tiny Charlie in a world of nesting Russian dolls, solving puzzles by stacking into larger dolls and using their special abilities. The quirky silent-film look and dry humor make the adventure especially charming.

Paradise Killer

Open world

As investigator Lady Love Dies you roam a neon-soaked, surreal island, grill eccentric suspects and gather evidence in a murder case. You choose who to accuse at trial, all wrapped in bold style, dark humor and a driving synthwave soundtrack.

Sam & Max Hit the Road

Lots of humour

A classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure following a dog and rabbity-thing detective duo on an absurd road trip to find an escaped Bigfoot. Zany humor, cartoon visuals and offbeat puzzles define it.

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