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  • Ginger
    Windows
    Decode the constructed language catalogued within a meandering dictionary.
  • Kevin's Playing in Berlin
    Windows
    Three poetic, experimental games about esoteric languages.
  • Epigraph
    Windows
    Crack the secrets of the Nari from opaque inscriptions.
  • Pikku Adventure
    Windows
    MacOS
    Learn the words and script of an alien language to deliver an important message.
  • The Gostak
    Web
    Learn to function in a textual world you have no basis for imagining.
  • Sethian
    Windows
    MacOS
    Write questions in an alien language to get answers from an abandoned computer.
  • Cypher
    Windows
    Learn about cryptography and use your scientific knowledge to solve various cipher challenges.
  • The Ratline
    Windows
    MacOS
    Track down Nazi war criminals by digging through various documents.
  • Golden Idol Investigations: The Lemurian Phoenix
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    PlayStation 5
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    Unravel five additional tales of power and deceit that shaped the troubled history of Lemuria.
  • La-Mulana
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    PlayStation 4
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    Put on your adventurer's hat and dive into a dangerous maze of cryptic secrets.
  • Braid
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 5
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    Rewind time in a series of puzzle platformer worlds that alter time in strange and unique ways.
  • Funeral for the Sun
    Windows
    Investigate a magical realist world of memories to uncover a Latin American story of resistance.
  • The Archives of Trevosa
    Web
    Translate the cultural terms within reports, decrees and letters to untangle a complex royal family tree.
  • The Conjurer's Almanaq
    Pen & Paper
    Trapped within a cryptic book, you search for a magician's true name to escape.
  • House
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    A book collapsing under mysteries. A house falling apart. Nothing is truly random.
  • The Land Forgotten
    Windows
    Translate a manuscript from a lost civilization to investigate an entrancing watercolor world.
  • Red Frame
    Windows
    Navigate the sprawling rooms of an uncanny mansion filled with detailed diorama-like puzzles.
  • La-Mulana 2
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    PlayStation 4
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    Unravel the mysteries of a sprawling, deadly network of underground ruins.
  • Lessons on Strange Symbols
    Web
    Use strange archaic symbols to learn a new numbers system and do some basic math.
  • Phonopolis
    Windows
    MacOS
    Save the Phonopolis citizens from total subjection in this cardboard-painted puzzle adventure.
  • Senna and the Forest
    Windows
    MacOS
    Gather clues about multiple trees in a disease-ridden forest and deduce how they relate to each other.
  • Confidential Killings
    Windows
    Solve a series of unsettling murders in gritty Hollywood.
  • Gorogoa
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    PlayStation 4
    Xbox One
    Xbox Series X|S
    iPad
    Android
    Assemble vignettes to explore a hand-drawn story.
  • The Guides Axiom
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Decipher codes concealed within confidential records.
  • Murder at the Birch Tree Theater
    Windows
    MacOS
    Uncover the sinister story of a community theater and its troubled musical productions.
  • Call of the Golden Valley
    Windows
    MacOS
    Gather evidence around an Australian country town to find out why hikers have gone missing.
  • Beware of the Cartographer!
    Windows
    Draw the border between two kingdoms in an attempt to restore peace.
  • Chronescher
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Solve space- and time-bending puzzles in minimalist, Escher-like environments.
  • The Rabbit and The Owl
    Windows
    MacOS
    Explore a fading world fractured between positive and negative space.
  • Anno 117: Pax Romana
    Windows
    PlayStation 5
    Xbox Series X|S
    Expand the Roman Empire from the Latium heartland to the Celtic territories.

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