
Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
Published by indienova, these 45 games let you solve desktop mysteries, tap heartbeats to a beat, and build villages or decks across wildly different worlds.
If you like digging through clues, start with The Operator, Desktop Explorer and Hymer 2000, where you sift messages, databases and odd software to work out what happened. The same publisher shelf also stretches to timing taps in Rhythm Doctor, village management in Ink Reverie and deck setups in Lucky Hunter, so you can switch from quiet deduction to rhythm, building and tactics without leaving the collection.

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

Defibrillate patients on the seventh beat of their hearts while boss viruses bend your rhythm, your screen and reality itself.

Three beastlings, one city on the edge, and a conspiracy hiding under all that fur.

Search files, calls and photos on a console, guide field agents through their cases, and watch a conspiracy close in on you.

Lucky Hunter is a deck-building auto battler Roguelike game.

Equip your hero, brew potions at the right moment, and watch a dark adventure unfold one symbol at a time.

While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times.

You play a hero made of the letter I, rewriting sentences to change what is real.

Fix a post-apocalyptic farm by wiring modular synthesizer modules, one puzzle at a time.

Attract real birds to your preserves with gentle card play, and watch each new arrival strengthen the ones already singing there.

Guide two orbiting planets down winding tracks, tapping in time with the music as each world speeds up and changes the rhythm.

Fight through procedurally generated dungeons as one of seven heroines, learning each enemy's rhythm the hard way.

Converse with a fading AI and search its memories to uncover what happened at an abandoned facility.

Gomoku: One of the most popular classic board games for all ages.

Draw puzzle is a casual puzzle game that is relaxing and challenging.

Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies.

Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre.

When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps.

Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession.

Sino was controlled by human. Human made the rules, and annihilated every race that opposed them.

An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets…

If there were another me, Observing myself from the perspective of a spectator, How would I regard another me?

Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house.

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral.

SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics.

Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure game featuring hand-drawn art and set in a bizarre black-and-white world with color accents.

The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space.

Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up…

Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure.

Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world.

Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties.

While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times.

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Guardians of Holme is a tower defense game with deckbuilding and roguelite elements.

Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story.

Desktop Dungeons: Rewind - Daily Demo is a new, procedurally generated challenge, designed to rack the strongest minds…DAILY!

Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy…

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events.

The Glass Heart Band face challenges brought on by a cruel world!

ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story.

Duel on Board is a 1 vs 1 local multiplayer competitive / party game where pirates fight for the precious beer while sailing the dangerous high seas.

Soul Link is a challenging puzzle game where you use your intelligence to build bridges with falling pieces of various shapes.

It's a 3D Puzzle Game talking about the philosophy of love and encounter from female's perspective.

Dream of Things is an adventure puzzle game packed with mystery. You had died in a bathtub and acquired the ability to talk to inanimate things.

Savage Age is a labor of love that combines survival, combat, base building, puzzle solving, and even tower defense into a single game.