Dark Room
Dark Room is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. You awaken in a mysterious, locked environment with no memory of who you are.
59% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Games like Coldwake
Loved how mysterious and story-driven Coldwake can get? These games are a good place to start.
> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFreeTerminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
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96% of 107 Steam reviews are positiveFreeArctic Awakening
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
84% of 335 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Awaken Infinity
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements. Wake up in a futuristic room with no memory, and unravel the mysteries of your past. Experience deep storytelling, meet intriguing characters, and uncover hidden secrets.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Desktop Explorer
A letter asks you to investigate a missing person case with the help of a strange program called Desktop Explorer.
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95% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$17.99Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Facility 47
Begin a journey through an isolated research facility in the freezing depths of the Antarctic, solving exciting puzzles as you go and unlocking new locations around the Facility.
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90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Mystery of the Malign
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
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94% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Homesick
You wake with no memory in a crumbling abandoned building, where daylight feels too bright and nights turn into chases down dark hallways. Homesick is a short first-person puzzle mystery about piecing together who you are, told through exploration, clues, and one very satisfying code to crack.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
77% of 1,287 Steam reviews are positive$14.99New Folder
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
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87% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Cheaper than Coldwake
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
console.log
A terminal-style text adventure. Mix classic commands like look and take with real Unix commands (ls, cd, cat) and uncover, across 8 chapters and 4…
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Stories Untold
Four short horror stories in one retro package, starting with a text adventure on an old computer.
86% of 4,413 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Desert of Vice
Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings.
79% of 19 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
The Filmmaker - A Text Adventure
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood…
90% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
I dream of you and ice cream
A sinister creature has enslaved mankind. Solve puzzles, gather components for a machine you are building, find comfort in your dreams.
94% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
The Almost Gone
Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.
80% of 1,024 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Whispers of a Machine
Investigate a string of murders as an augmented agent in a world where artificial intelligence is outlawed.
93% of 1,422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$2.99
Window Of Perspectives
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$2.24
The Paradixion: Son's Room
[The Paradixion: Son's Room] is a point-and-click adventure game with a mysterious atmosphere.Solve various puzzles with a unique atmosphere and…
84% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Last Campfire
Guide a lost ember through quiet wilderness, solve gentle puzzles and help the Forlorn find their spark again.
97% of 17,888 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$1.49
Hidden gems like Coldwake
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a strange Eastern European town.
96% of 1,786 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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[Redacted] The Safehouse
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.
99% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
95% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$17.99
Mind Diver
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations.
95% of 323 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Terminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers.
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 573 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
You are the Carimara: small, mute, and good at asking awkward questions with old cards.
96% of 2,946 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hymer 2000
Hymer 2000 is a text-based puzzle game where you talk freely to an old computer called Hymer, search its lost chat logs by keyword, and piece…
89% of 1,050 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Radiolight
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.
90% of 442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
91% of 154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.
93% of 378 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Utter a Name
Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.
90% of 231 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Newest games like Coldwake
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
91% of 154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Rivage
Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.
74% of 548 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$24.99
Project DeepWeb: Eternal Nightmare
This is a desktop-like adventure game about exploration of the Deep Internet, a sequel to Project DeepWeb.
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
95% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$17.99
Barnacle
Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong.
98% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
New Folder
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within.
87% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
[Redacted] The Safehouse
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend.
99% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5
Who am I: Remedy
A found footage horror game where you'll try to remember who you are and escape the time loop while documenting everything on a typewriter.
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$3.14
Lost Wiki: Kozlovka
You are a 1990s journalist digging through a wiki for a strange Eastern European town.
96% of 1,786 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
92% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFree