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Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
Miss the mysterious and atmospheric pull of For What Will Come? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Search for your missing sister in this stunning first-person adventure. A thrilling story where you unravel a mystery through exploration and puzzle-solving.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A tiny mute sorcerer who speaks only in conjured cards, hired to rid a four-armed old woman's forest house of a ghost. A short, spooky-cozy mystery in a PS1-style fable world, with secrets buried far deeper than the main story lets on.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A first-person mystery about Paul Prospero, a detective who talks to the dead. He arrives in Red Creek Valley to find a missing boy and a trail of corpses, and it falls to you to piece together how each death happened. No combat, no timers: just a beautiful, uneasy valley, a strange old force beneath it, and a story that ends harder than you expect.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A first-person puzzle mystery in an abandoned building. Explore by day, solve puzzles, decode a lost language and piece together what happened, then survive nightmares where darkness chases you down the same hallways. Short, slow and hauntingly beautiful.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A hand-drawn detective adventure about a sharp young sleuth whose mother is accused of murder. Explore the town of Arthurton, read suspects for tells, and make choices that bend the story the narrator is writing. Witty, atmospheric and surprisingly heartfelt, with a mystery that keeps pulling you forward.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
An abandoned town, a dead woman, and nobody left to ask. As journalist Janet you search empty houses for clues, codes and diaries, and piece together who killed Vivian Roberts. No quest markers, no hints: just you, your notebook and a town full of secrets.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
Your daughter Leila ran away from home, so you're going after her to find where she's hiding. Your brother, Logan, accompanies you throughout your journey.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back to your loved ones. Will you follow the light?
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
Lucy lives in a village at the edge of a forest full of monsters. People vanish now and then, and the grown-ups just keep repeating the rules. This time a child is old enough to ask why. A hand-drawn point & click adventure with odd puzzles, a mean cat and a story that gets under your skin.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.

Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.

A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.

In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its…

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost…

Ride, photograph and record a fading world at your own unhurried pace, one story at a time.

Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back…

Help Lucy uncover why people vanish from her village, through a point & click adventure where cute drawings hide something dark.

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

A cinematic point-and-click adventure where you step into the shoes of photographer Charlotte Gray as she explores the abandoned camp of Deer Creek…

Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back…

Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.

Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth.

Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters.

Disembodied souls linger in this old estate. To each one, utter their name.

In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its…

Search for your missing sister in this stunning first-person adventure.