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2018PlayStation90 % positive24.99 €

An atmospheric VR puzzle adventure in which you play an astronaut exploring an abandoned moon base in a retro-futuristic Cold War world. You solve hands-on environmental puzzles while uncovering a dark secret.

Sci-fi setting
Lavish presentation
Puzzles and brain teasers
Strong, story-driven narrative

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Hell is Us

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2025USK 16PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch83 % positive49.99 €

A bleak action-adventure set in a war-torn country that drops quest markers and hand-holding, so you navigate by clues, notes and conversations. Puzzles and tense melee fights against eerie creatures born of a mysterious calamity round it out.

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