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2005USK 6

A point-and-click puzzle adventure for the Nintendo DS in which teenage Ashley explores an eerie island searching for her missing parents. It uses the touch screen and microphone cleverly for puzzles and a mystery-driven story.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered

99 %Match

2010PC, Steam Deck playable78 % positive19.50 €

Fits your focus: Systems like Trace Memory and Combat like Trace Memory.

You step into the shoes of amateur sleuth Nancy Drew, seen through her own eyes, and crack a murder case by grilling suspects, working through puzzles and piecing together clues. This remaster refreshes the visuals and adds new puzzles to the classic mystery.

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Her Story

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You type keywords into an old police database and piece together a haunting crime mystery from fragmented live-action interview clips of one woman. The story assembles itself in your head, in whatever order your curiosity leads you.

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

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You browse the found smartphone of a missing young woman and piece together her story from messages, photos and apps. A quiet, narrative-driven investigation with light puzzles and social themes.

A Normal Lost Phone

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You find a stranger's smartphone and dig through its messages, apps and photos to uncover their secrets. A short, empathetic narrative that unfolds through small puzzles.

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

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You step into Nancy Drew's shoes and investigate a creepy seaside amusement park where a haunted carousel takes riderless midnight rides. Its puzzles and mystery story build a spooky, tense atmosphere.

Kathy Rain

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A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.

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