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2013 PC

A short, eerie puzzle adventure rooted in Swedish folklore. You wander a chilling wintry world with a paper-cutout look, solving cryptic puzzles and meeting creatures from legend. Its dense atmosphere and hidden secrets make it stand out.

What defines Year Walk:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Lots to discover

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Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

95 %

2015 PC

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

A grim point-and-click adventure where you solve puzzles as a prisoner in a nightmarish castle. Its oppressive, surreal world draws heavily on the paintings of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

Rusty Lake Paradise

Puzzles and brain teasers

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Whispering Willows

Lots to discover

In this atmospheric 2D ghost story, young Elena searches for her missing father while exploring an eerie mansion. Using astral projection, she solves puzzles and helps restless spirits.

The Alighieri Circle: Dante’s Bloodline

Lavish presentation

As Gabriele Alighieri, you descend into a psychological take on Dante's Hell to reseal its gates and uncover your ancestors' dark secrets. Puzzles, horror and narrative drive the experience.

Fran Bow

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark point-and-click adventure in which you play a young girl with a mental illness who shifts between a brutal reality and a disturbing alternate world. Nightmarish hand-drawn art and inventory puzzles carry a bleak, emotional story.

Detention

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

Allogloom

Puzzles and brain teasers

A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure in which Nora explores the town of Gruesome Grove, solves puzzles, befriends oddballs and faces monsters. The tone is macabre, mysterious and at times gory.

Cube Escape: Case 23

Puzzles and brain teasers

A surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure in the Rusty Lake universe: as Detective Dale Vandermeer you probe a strange death and solve eerie, offbeat object puzzles in compact, atmospheric scenes.

Servant of the Lake

Puzzles and brain teasers

A new point-and-click puzzle adventure in the Rusty Lake series, expected to deliver the franchise's dark, surreal atmosphere and intricately layered puzzles. As it is a new release, this rating relies mostly on the series' established style.

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