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2016PC76 % positive

Calendula is an experimental meta puzzle game where you try to play a game that keeps resisting you. You use logic to break conventions and sink into a bleak, unsettling atmosphere.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Calendula special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Rusty Lake Paradise

91 %Match

2018PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive3.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Calendula: puzzles to figure out, a dark atmosphere and a calm pace.

An eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure on a remote island where the ten biblical plagues torment your family. Bizarre rituals, a dark atmosphere and surreal art make it classic Rusty Lake.

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Pony Island

Respects your time

A devil-run arcade machine turns out to be a meta puzzle-horror adventure that keeps breaking its own rules and toying with your expectations. With dark humor, hacking-style puzzles and clever twists, it is short but memorable.

The Exit 8

Vast, open spaces

You walk down an endless subway corridor and must spot any tiny anomaly: if you find one you turn back, otherwise you keep going. A single mistake resets your progress, turning calm observation into a tense, unsettling game.

Rusty Lake: Roots

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark point-and-click puzzle game where you grow the Vanderboom family tree across generations. Bizarre, macabre puzzles and an eerie atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Shivers

Puzzles and brain teasers

You spend a night in an abandoned museum of the strange and unusual, piecing together puzzles around cursed artifacts and missing people. Its slow, eerie mood and pre-rendered scenes make this early horror adventure memorable.

Cube Escape: Theatre

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, dark and surreal point-and-click puzzle game from the Rusty Lake series, set in a theatre inside the protagonist's mind where you complete six plays. Quirky puzzles and an eerie mood define the experience.

Cube Escape: The Cave

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure set in the surreal Rusty Lake universe, where you solve cryptic puzzles in a sinister cave and piece together the unsettling lore bit by bit.

Cube Escape: Paradox

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, eerie point-and-click puzzle adventure set in the Rusty Lake universe: as Detective Dale Vandermeer you solve puzzles across two intertwined realities and slowly piece together a strange mystery.

Cube Escape: Arles

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, darkly surreal point-and-click escape puzzle in the Rusty Lake universe: in a bedroom in Arles you collect art supplies and solve odd puzzles until a macabre sacrifice becomes necessary.

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