
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 11.43/day in the week to Aug 29 → 21.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Your uncle has given you his old PC as living inheritance. To your surprise, it still turns on! Inside, a letter tasks you with investigating a missing person’s case along with a mysterious puzzle game named Desktop Explorer. You’ll learn that your uncle wasn’t the only one who used this computer before, and that the program inside it has a deeper role in this 90s atmospheric digital mystery.
Explore a 90’s operating system where every window hides a clue.
Solve puzzles using classic OS tools like: file explorers, chat logs, and corrupted applications.
Dig through abandoned software and forgotten files to uncover the truth.
Experience a psychological horror mystery told through eerie interfaces and fragmented memories.
Navigate immersive 3D environments rendered in retro-digital aesthetics.
Listen to an original evocative soundtrack and nostalgic computer sounds
Play classic pre-installed computer games
This game contains occasional flashing lights, screen effects, and rapidly changing imagery that may affect players with photosensitive epilepsy or light sensitivities.
All artwork, writing, music, sound design, programming, and game assets have been created by our development team and through traditional creative processes.
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Overall very good game. I wish it had leaned more into the horror aspect, never really got that scarry at all. The puzzles are overall good. Only felt the need to look up two of them that could have had some better lead up to breadcrumb what to do.
非常优秀的解密游戏,谜题和操作系统的结合堪称绝伦,光是创意就值回票价。 不过,正是因为创意出众,所以一些地方需要能对上作者的电波,不然哪怕是作者留下的提示也可能会被无视(比如表示重命名的符号)。但一旦想通了,就只会赞叹作者设计之精妙了。 除了解谜,背后的故事也足够温馨,结局也是HE。 以上算是本作的优点,无论如何,对于喜欢解谜的玩家来讲,本作都是不可错过的精品,哪怕原价入也值得。但接下来,我要写写我自己的体验差之处。 本作的时长能有八小时以上,但我其实只玩了三个小时就卸了,后面是看实况云完的。 我其实是打算从头到尾玩下去的,因为第一部分的解谜就惊艳到我了。但是第二部分就变成了传统的3D rpg解谜,虽然谜题依旧保持着质量,而且仍然保留了和操作系统的互动,但这种形式让我的新鲜感一下消掉大半。而最终导致我玩不下去的,是连线小游戏——它对鼠标太过不友好了。 如果只有第一部分的操作系统解谜和第三部分的命令行解谜,我的评价还能更高。 而如果本作能像一些meta类游戏一样真的对现实中玩家的电脑进行文件操作的话,那便可称神作。
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 1.5K reviews with recorded playtime.
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非常不错的解谜游戏,虽然有的谜题有些牵强但是不影响整体的游戏素质
I LOOOOOOVE THIS GAME This was so much fun, I played the demo and immediately fell in love. Bought the game shortly after it's release and it's so much fun. The puzzles have a lot of different mechanics and each "level" (account) has a different story and way to make puzzles. Talking about puzzles, they are so clever and fun, I loved almost all of them and never really was frustrated by them as when you find the answer after 2hours it's so rewarding and all makes sense. Good job to the team who worked on the puzzles !! 15euros well spent for 15hours to complete the game and i still have achievements to complete. I can only recommend it especially if you investigate with someone else !
I bought it since it seemed to be inspired by Hypnospace Outlaw. I was pleasantly surprised that it's really its own thing, only superficially similar to Hypnospace Outlaw. It's ultimately a narrative-driven puzzle game, generally well put together. The puzzles trend more toward riddles and complex problem solving that make it considerably more difficult, so be aware of that if you're attracted to this game for the same reason I was.
Hal叔叔第一阶段部分的模拟电脑性质的解谜玩法特别特别喜欢,进入Maxine的就没那么有新意了。虽然还保留了一定独特的复制粘贴的玩法,但主体聊天室完全变成老套的探索解谜了。结局惊喜地很暖心。美术风格,以及每个人的谜题私人定制化细思很有趣。本作综合下来值得一玩,质量不差,但是搞得我非常想玩一款像第一部分一样从头到尾比较纯粹的电脑解谜游戏(? [spoiler] Hal的谜题叽里咕噜一大堆,除了交代玩法对刺激hal有用的点是火烧自己手加木乃伊哥哥的脸大跳脸;max商场案掉出来的尸体是自己、结合水族箱是“孤独地死掉”,斧头案嫌疑人形象非常像emmett,而拍立得鬼图闪回是她推开爸爸;emmett高塔、皇后拦白王出走主打用塔罗代表他家庭破碎,自视甚高,所做无用。 [/spoiler]
Despite being an incredibly inventive puzzle game with a lot of very clever twists, Desktop Explorer is very approachable! Given the earnestness of both design and writing - and the way the game walks back and forth between very endearing silliness and very heavy tragedy - I suspect I'll be thinking about it for a while. Are there rough edges? A couple. But the developers and design folks behind Desktop Explorer have thought through a tremendous number of details, and typos in the game script here and there are about as bad as the rough edges get. The sheer number of little hidden things that are stuffed into corners for people paying attention are really phenomenal. As always, go in blind, solve the puzzles yourself, and be patient. And for goodness sake, pay attention: there are so many things that the folks in the credits have put their love into, and it shows.
近年来玩过相当优秀的一款解谜游戏了!!!虽然比我想象的没那么恐怖hhhh 解谜虽然很费脑但也没那么难,剧情演出,美术风格的脑电波都对上了!!!!全对!!!!
So much fun! The puzzles were hard at times but you just had to think outside the box and use all the clues available to you. The storyline was so heartbreakingly good and the soundtrack was A+. Need me a The Sweaters album now! 100/10
THIS GAME IS FANTASTIC!!!!
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