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2026PCSteam Deck playable16.99 €

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 Puzzles, cryptic games and outdated software piece together what happened to its previous user.

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

The closest matches for Desktop Explorer are Her Story, Among the Innocent: A Stricken Tale and Homesick. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Desktop Explorer special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Her Story

97 %Match

2015PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive9.75 €

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

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.

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.

Trauma

Puzzles and brain teasers

A young woman recovers in hospital after a car crash and drifts through dreams that you explore using gesture-based controls in photographic, surreal 3D spaces. A short, dreamlike mix of point-and-click puzzling and introspective storytelling.

Crystals of Time

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic point-and-click puzzle adventure where you play thief Ashley, exploring a deserted mansion and using a time-travel crystal to uncover clues about her father's disappearance.

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.

Dark Fall

Dark, serious atmosphere

A Myst-style horror adventure set in an abandoned, haunted hotel. You search for your missing brother, solve puzzles, and are unsettled by a deeply eerie soundscape.

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.

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