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Outer Wilds

Explore a solar system and unravel its mysteries.

Ascend a tower, deciphering the languages of its inhabitants.

Explore qubits, superposition, entanglement, and interference in this quantum engineering game.

Help DadHog bring his hedgehog children home by sticking together (literally) and rotating through grid-based puzzles.

What appears to be a difficult Souls-like adventure game hides layers of secrets and discoveries.

Push and roll trees to build bridges through an expansive open world.

Scour the early internet to reconstruct the Roottree's family tree and identify the heirs to their fortune.

Create islands and connect rivers to solve relaxing Nurikabe logic puzzles.

Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.

Set sail on an adventure through Escher-like perspective puzzles and optical illusions.

Platform:MacOSNintendo SwitchXbox Series X|SiPad

Genre:Detective

Wax Heads
Find the perfect records for the quirky customers of a struggling music store.
Cracks Where the Light Gets In
Observe a family from limited perspectives to understand why they're here and what they need.
The Mermaid Mask
Help Detective Grimoire and Sally explain an impossible crime aboard the Mortuga submarine.
Surradia: An Art Retrospective
Unravel the detective mystery of three magical artists who went missing during World War II.
The Roottrees are Dead
Scour the early internet to reconstruct the Roottree's family tree and identify the heirs to their fortune.
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Three centuries after the whodunit mysteries of the Cloudsley family, a relic hunter seeks out an artifact of unimaginable power.
The Operator
Assist intelligence field agents by finding clues, connecting evidence, and perhaps, uncovering a deeper truth.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Help the Duck Detective solve the mystery of a sinister sausage-based conspiracy.
Botany Manor
Explore the stately home of a botanist, uncovering the perfect growing conditions for exotic plants.
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Piece together witness testimonies to solve the case of a missing young girl.
Golden Idol Mysteries: The Lemurian Vampire
The expedition to Monkey Paw Islands reaches a dark conclusion in this DLC featuring 3 new whodunit cases to crack.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Possess objects and solve adventure puzzles to save characters from their doomed fate.

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