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A compact horror adventure about escaping a mansion, featuring tool-based puzzles, nightmare-waking mechanics, and multiple endings.

Coffin of Ashes
A casual single-player adventure RPG about a schoolgirl exploring a mysterious ash-covered mansion and uncovering its underground secret over roughly 7.5 hours.
2016-12-08
- Puzzle
- Adventure
- Horror

Indie

Role-playing (RPG)

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Clock Tower: Rewind

A short, tense 16-bit survival horror adventure about evading Scissorman, praised for its restored content but with some technical quirks.

2024-10-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Side view
Point-and-click

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BIRDHOUSE

A very short hand-drawn horror adventure through a house and backyard, with environmental interaction and a deity-centric narrative praised for atmosphere but criticized as vague.

2025-09-12

Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Viviette

A compact single-player horror adventure in a maze-like mansion, featuring demanding logic puzzles and branching endings.

2018-10-18

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Mystery

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Cat Museum

A surreal 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure in which you and a mischievous cat uncover a mysterious museum's secrets through atmospheric puzzles.

2022-03-17

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Arcade
Mystery

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The Witch's House MV

A dark pixel-art horror adventure about a girl navigating a shifting manor's deadly riddles, with a compact ~2.5-hour run.

2018-10-30

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

A short pixel-art psychological horror RPG about sneaking through school at night, solving puzzles, and uncovering a mysterious golden letter's secret.

2021-10-15

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Riddlewood Manor

A spooky point-and-click adventure of eerie logic puzzles in a deadly haunted house, with forgiving restarts and a roughly five-hour playtime.

2025-10-22

Adventure
Indie
Virtual Reality

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Puppet House

A compact single-player puzzle-adventure horror about a detective facing a killer puppet in a ventriloquist's mansion, with escape-room puzzles and an eerie yet occasionally funny tone.

2024-10-24

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Ann

A tense, roughly 3.5-hour horror adventure in which an art student explores a school with a security guard to uncover secrets and escape.

2021-08-26

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Mad Father

A compact horror adventure about exploring a mad scientist's mansion, with tense atmosphere, simple puzzles, and multiple endings.

2016-09-22

Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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R.I.C.A

A compact, quiet adventure RPG about a girl exploring an abandoned castle to find her missing cat, with escape-room-style puzzle solving and a hidden secret.

2019-02-15

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)