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A single-player narrative adventure mixing day/night puzzle-solving and trauma-themed storytelling, with mixed reviews and limited playtime data.

The Haunting of Joni Evers
A dark supernatural mystery adventure in Oklahoma, featuring a haunted house, generational curse, and memory exploration in a roughly five-hour single-player experience.
2025-01-13
- First person

Adventure

Horror

Indie

Simulator

Mystery

Drama

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Confabulation

A contemplative puzzle adventure about photographing anomalies in a shifting home to recover fading memories.

2023-01-13

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery
Non-fiction

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Dream Cage

A short, eerie single-player horror adventure where a man with Alzheimer's pieces together fragments of his past during nightly sleep paralysis to uncover the truth.

2025-02-06

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow

A single-player action-puzzle adventure through a dying man's subconscious, featuring a poignant ~5-hour story.

2023-06-14

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Stealth
Mystery

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Labyrinthine Dreams

A short, story-driven puzzle adventure about confronting past scars and choosing the right path, with strong writing and voice acting.

2015-05-26

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie

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Untold Memories: Potter's Field

A short indie adventure/simulation about a debt-ridden man whose nighttime job offer spirals into a psychological thriller, with a promising premise but underdeveloped mechanics.

2026-03-11

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator

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Broken Aperture

A brief, atmospheric walking-sim puzzler about Freya's journey through grief and memory, playable in under an hour.

2025-10-06

Adventure
Indie

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Nocturia The Game

A short, tense horror puzzle game about a child trapped in a dark home, solving puzzles while pursued by a sinister entity.

2025-10-28

First person
Adventure
Strategy
Indie

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The Inner Darkness

A short dimension-switching puzzle adventure with retro pixel graphics, mixing casual presentation with difficult challenges and mixed reviews.

2017-02-24

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Mystery

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The Kitchen Knife

A short single-player psychological horror adventure set in a guilt-ridden mind, with eerie exploration, a cryptic puzzle, and a tense, oppressive tone.

2025-10-23

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Our Ordinary Home

A ~2-hour psychological thriller where you assemble fragmented memories and hidden clues to uncover a disturbing truth.

2026-04-24

Adventure
Indie

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Orpheus's Dream

A short, subdued 3D isometric puzzle adventure about recovering lost memories in a family house, with mixed reviews citing bugs and odd storytelling.

2019-09-15

Adventure
Indie