
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 What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software?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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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 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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了不起的作品,超过我的预期。想法创意非常好,解密难度适中,加上解密思考的时间差不多十小时流程,中后部分稍微有点脱离了开篇的解密节奏,但仍有很多很好的创意。可能是我玩得比较晚,基本没有碰到bug,很幸运。 剧情中规中矩,整体风格有点电波系,也很摇滚。 由indienova进行的本地化适配度相当高,完全不用在解密过程中有这方面的困扰。
Fantastic game with so many clever puzzles. I think this game has the most clever and satisfying to figure out puzzles in any game I ever played. Most the puzzles I was able to figure out on my own and were not overly frustrating or challenging, although a couple I did have to look up help to figure them out. The style of the game is also fantastic. They nailed the feeling of an old Windows 95/98 desktop. The level of depth of the simulation for a desktop environment was a pleasant surprise for me that I wasn't expecting.
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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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A really clever, and occasionally creepy, detective game with some really cool puzzles that use the OS environment very effectively.
游戏好玩,难度适中,也很新颖。 最出彩的应该是剧情细腻的描写,以及与之匹配的汉化。能切实的感受到角色的心境和性格,汉化也非常的优秀。 最终 [spoiler]也没有强行包汉堡 [/spoiler],这一点十分满意,总之是近期玩到的非常完整成熟的作品,制作组中应该有跟max一样心思敏感又复杂的人吧。 鸡蛋里挑骨头的话:在游戏厅玩游戏后切的太快会卡动作,max得一直举着图片文件,像是体罚
I don't ever write reviews for a game but this one is just different. The puzzles are hard, the story is good, the ambiance is spooky, and there is enough game play for 10+ hours. Truly a great game, The Sweaters need to be a real band making real music too.
what a game well thought out puzzles that take time and actual thinking to figure out, could maybe use some more in game hints as some are pretty tough, all very solveable and quite fun to figure out. aesthetic is incredible, everything feels like it belongs, and the creepy / light horror vibes are perfect. the story is good, had me trying to figure it out from the start, didnt get there till the end, a very well written mystery. music and sound design are top notch, agree with others that there needs to be a way to buy the soundtrack. didnt run into any bugs, pretty sure all the major ones were patched out while i was playing. overall really enjoyed desktop explorer, dont really have any criticisms, highly recommend.
This is the best "desktop simulator" since HypnoSpace Outlaw. Just play it.
A wonderful retro themed puzzle game
Absolute brain befuddling banger, don't go into this expecting something along the lines of Hypnospace Outlaw because it very much stands on its own and it's better for it. Definitely agree with other people that this game's puzzles have a STIFF difficulty curve at times and you'll want to legitimately take notes in a few cases but the story and themes beneath all the tough challenges is written and presented beautifully, genuinely one of the best in the already sort of niche puzzle/mystery genre.
loved this!!! officially my new favourite game :) super immersive + engaging story. felt like i was actually on an old PC solving a mystery about my family. Perfectly mixes horror with fun and tenderness. Almost teared up at certain points (in a good way). highly recommend.
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