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To Nothing
Platform: Flash — 
At first, To Nothing sounds like a misnomer for SuzumeDr's newest escape game. You start out in a somewhat sparsely furnished room with nothing in your hands except a black-and-white sports bag. You dump out the bag's contents and instantly all the slots in your inventory are full. The catch? As you go around and solve puzzles, every object in the room and in your inventory will... disappear, one by one. It's hard to be original in a well-established genre like the room escape, but SuzumeDr is definitely good at his trade. Tagged as: browser, escape, flash, free, game, japanese, macwinlinux, pointandclick, puzzle, rating-g, suzumedr
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Muu: Just Another Day
Platform: Flash — 
Muu's quiet little cave-dwelling life is about to be turned upside down when he sets out to find the source of an explosion that rocks the land. Though short and somewhat challenging, this platformer packs a lot of appealing retro charm into a small package and is worth checking out for the fifteen minutes or so it'll take you. Tagged as: browser, flash, free, game, macwinlinux, miktar, platform, rating-g, retro
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Arcadia: a Pastoral Tale
Platform: Javascript — 
This lyrical work of interactive fiction, brainchild of Jonas Kryatzes who created The Book of Living Magic, will envelope you in a surrealistic experience of discovery, a gentle stroll through a timeless pastoral state where your decisions are rewarded with rich verse and life-pondering revelations. Each passage presents you with a choice which will determine your path; stroll slowly through the experience and play more than once to fully appreciate the outcomes of each option. Arcadia: a Pastoral Tale elevates the oft misjudged browser game onto the loftier plane of artistic poignancy. Tagged as: browser, dhtml, free, game, ifiction, javascript, jkyratzes, macwinlinux, narrative, rating-g, rpg, surreal, text, twine
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The Vault
 Games featured this week: Aether; The Fog Fall; Mr. Coo: El Laberinto Esférico —
Earth is boring! Who needs this stupid old spinning blue ball when there's a whole universe out there to explore? But fear not; even if you aren't Richard Garriot you can still explore the realms beyond with this collection of strange and otherworldly games! Tagged as: blog, browser, thevault
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The Lost City
Platform: Mobile (iOS, Android) — 
The creators of Grisly Manor bring another beautiful but easy point-and-click puzzle adventure to your iOS. Your Grandmother, once a great adventurer/archaeologist, sends you off to complete the journey she was never able to make, to a place where the seasons are at your fingertips. Low on challenge but big on style and user-friendliness, it's the perfect way to relax and get a little adventuring in all in one go. Tagged as: adventure, android, firemaplegames, game, ios, iphone, kindlefire, mobile, nook, pointandclick, puzzle, rating-g
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Yamada Box Legend
Platform: Unity — 
Who knew that everything through the looking glass was actually made of cardboard? Yamada Box Legend is a quirky fantasy game that sends you spiraling into the Cardboard World after being the stooge for a magician's vanishing act. It's a graphically pleasing puzzle RPG adventure that will draw you in with its bizarre characters and engaging gameplay. Tagged as: 3d, adventure, arcanekids, browser, free, game, macwin, puzzle, rating-y, rpg, tastle, unity
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Sound Color R
Platform: Flash — 
Robamimi never fails to delight escape-the-room aficionados with beautiful yet minimalistic interior design, light puzzles that require thought without enervating the brain, and buoyant endings that leave us smiling in accomplishment. Move about the room following the arrow keys, clicking on anything that begs closer examination and keeping an eye out for clues, no matter how surreptitiously found, until you find your way out. With its seamless, intuitive quality to gameplay, a neatly organized inventory, and lack of misdirection, Sound Color R turns a graceful and serene diversion into a spark of vibrancy and music to light up your day. Tagged as: browser, escape, flash, free, game, japanese, macwinlinux, pointandclick, puzzle, rating-g, robamimi
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Netbots
Platform: Flash — 
We've all had that problem. You know, the one where the Netbots start to plug up the kitchen sink so the water doesn't drain. Or the one where the Netbots keep your bowling ball from coming back down the ball return at the local bowling alley. Managing the Netbots can be quite a tricky task, as a group of scientists find out in Maik Haider's Netbots, a puzzle where you have to learn to divide to conquer. Tagged as: browser, flash, free, game, logic, macwinlinux, mhaider, puzzle, rating-g
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Platform: Mobile (iPad (iOS)) — 
You're dead. But where normally that might mean Game Over, in this port of Capcom's gloriously quirky, surreal and imaginative puzzle adventure, it's only the beginning. As one very special newly dead soul, you have the ability to jump from object to object and change the course of someone's fate, hopping back in time four minutes before they died. Use your abilities to save their lives if you can figure out how to manipulate your environment, but don't dilly-dally; the clock is always ticking, and something big is going on tonight in this strange town. To say nothing of what'll happen to you when the sun comes up the next morning. You've got one night to make a difference and find out the truth... make the most of it. Tagged as: adventure, capcom, demo, game, ios, ipad, mobile, puzzle, rating-o, surreal
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Mobile Monday
Platform: Mobile (iOS) —  Games featured this week: Off the Leash; Jigsaw Mansion 2; Boy Loves Girl —
Here's a puzzle for you to piece together: how can you help a pack of dogs evade the cops while getting the attention of a girl who won't pay you any mind even though you've got the moon on a string? PROTIP: You'll need two iOS devices to pull that simultaneous feat off! Tagged as: blog, ios, ipad, iphone, itunes, mobile, mobile-monday
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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone
Platform: Download (Windows) — 
Arche is worried about fitting in. Her family has just moved to the little hamlet of Tonkiness to open an item shop, and it turns out her dreams of learning magic may be short lived once she discovers she needs an expensive elemental stone to even practice at her new school. But a simple rumour might lead her on to a much bigger adventure than she ever imagined in this beautiful but difficult action platforming RPG. Tagged as: action, adventure, carpefulgur, demo, download, fantasy, game, indie, lizsoft, platform, rating-y, rpg, steam, windows
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Analogue: A Hate Story
Platform: Download (Mac, Linux, Windows) —  After thousands of years, the Mugunghwa, sent into space to establish the first interstellar colony, has been found floating dead. You're sent after it to discover what happened to its crew with the help of two very different AIs, but the truth is vastly more complicated than you might think, and nowhere near black and white. In Christine Love's debut commercial visual novel release, take part in a captivating, clever, and emotional story that deals with love, politics, forgiveness... and hate. Tagged as: clove, demo, download, game, ifiction, indie, ischankler, macwinlinux, mystery, narrative, raide, rating-o, scifi, visualnovel
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Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini
Platform: Download (Windows) — 
The three modes of play make the game attractive to a wide variety of hybrid enthusiasts, the story is intriguing, the gameplay amusing, the visuals stunning, and the overall experience is one that freaks out and delights in equal measure. Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini proudly carries the series banner forward and provides great entertainment at a reasonable price. Give it a try and prepare to be both entertained and enlightened. Tagged as: adventure, affiliate, demo, download, game, hiddenobject, midnightmysteries, rating-y, windows
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Weekend Download
Platform: Download (Mac, Linux, Windows) —  Games featured this week: Invert; Hack, Slash, Loot; Dungeon Chaos —
A little bit of looting, a little bit of inverting, and a whole lot of shooting in this edition of Weekend Download. In fact, if you tried to take Weekend Download through an airport security gate, you'd probably find yourself on the receiving in of some nasty stares and/or unusual search techniques. Tagged as: blog, download, free, macwinlinux, weekenddownload
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The Scale of the Universe 2
Platform: Flash — 
Similar in concept to the Total Perspective Vortex, from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Scale of the Universe 2 isn't really a game, but it'll still blow your mind. You start at human scale and can scroll all the way down to theoretical concepts like strings or all the way up to the potential size of the universe. That's pretty big, and you have to scroll for a long, long, long time time to get back to human scale from there. It's kind of terrifying, honestly. Try not to think about it too much. Tagged as: browser, chuang, flash, free, game, htwins, macwinlinux, mhuang, rating-g, scaleoftheuniverse, webtoy
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