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Think of yourself as someone who just wants to crash after a long shift, not deal with otherworldly nonsense. That’s your start in Veins of DARKNESS, a 2025 adventure and action game from Langonier that turns a work trip into a waking nightmare. You’re a shift worker, sent to some rundown house on the edge of nowhere because your company’s too broke to spring for a motel. You pull up at night, half asleep, figuring you’ll unpack and pass out. Wrong. The second you step inside, it’s clear this isn’t a normal rental something’s alive in there, something dark and nasty that’s been waiting for someone like you to stumble in.

Think of yourself as someone who’d fall for a prank video, then laugh it off until it’s you in the hot seat. That’s where Jumpscare Simulator System Breach puts you, a 2025 adventure, horror, and puzzle game from Durultay Games that’s pure nostalgic fright. You’re dropped into a messed up simulation, echoes of those «Scary Woman Jumpscare» days bouncing around, except now you’re the one walking through the doors. No grand mission here, just you, a regular soul, trying to make it through a pixelated nightmare without losing it. Three modes keep you guessing: a story path, a speedrun rush, and a random room slog where every step could be your last.

Imagine you’re just a regular person who’s always dreamed of playing detective, piecing together clues like you’re in your favorite crime show. That’s the pull of Detective The Test, a 2025 adventure and simulation game from k148 Game Studio and Jandusoft that drops you right into the thick of it. You’re not some slick pro with a badge here, just someone thrown into three messy cases—a mysterious house with secrets in the walls, a quiet street hiding a dark truth, and a third spot that’ll keep you guessing. There’s no guide, no glowing hints, just you, a pencil, and your gut, trying to figure out who’s the victim, who’s the killer, and when it all went down. It’s like sitting down with a puzzle where the pieces don’t even tell you they fit until you make them.

Imagine Earth — is a real-time strategy game in which you will create colonies on a wide variety of planets. You have access to 9 planets, more than 10 races and factions, many tasks in single-player mode and free matches, with endlessly procedurally-generated planets. You will populate planets in order to create on them the production of certain materials or objects that you need. Each location has its own pros and cons, climate, as well as opportunities for building buildings or settling on the territory.

Inspector Schmidt The Ebbing is a detective RPG set in 1870, where you investigate a mysterious death in the coastal town of Havstedt. In the role of Valentin Schmidt, a civil servant whose vacation is interrupted by a murder, you will explore the open world, interrogate suspects through an engaging dialog system, and uncover the town’s dark secrets. Gameplay combines classic detective work with enhanced stealth mechanics, puzzle solving, and skill testing that can be customized according to the difficulty you choose.

Projekt Passion is a visual novel set in a science fiction setting. In the world of the far future mankind has stepped very far and managed to conquer more than one planet and galaxy. The protagonist lives on one of the not so long ago colonized planet and enjoys life, regularly having sexual relations with human girls and representatives of other races. He has never encountered any worries in his life, much less problems. Everything changes when the house of the protagonist of Projekt Passion is attacked by unknown people. They not only make a mess and steal a lot of things, but also attack the guy, knocking him out. Together with him, a beautiful person spent the night, and after the character came to himself, he did not find the girl near him

Voidborn is a fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements set in a dark fantasy world. Developed by Xekvera, the indie action game combines visceral combat with unlimited replayability. Players take on the role of a Voidborn, a powerful being created by the Divine Overlord tasked with eliminating corrupt world leaders to maintain the cycle of life, death, and power. The game features devastating weapon and character customizations, a variety of enemies including demigods, and a permanent skill boost with each death.

The Stalked 2 is an atmospheric horror game inspired by the classics of the genre, where you live a frightening story through the eyes of a brave female traveler. Every action and choice influences the development of the plot, forcing you to get 100% into the role of Rachel. Travel toward the mysterious cabin, facing the growing anxiety and unnatural silence of the forest. Pay close attention to your surroundings, read character behavior and react to alarms — they may be the key to salvation. As the plot develops, you will explore places where many secrets lie. Show your wit, collect clues and analyze what’s going on to get out alive from the frightening journey. The plot is presented cinematically, with an emphasis on suspense.

Enter the unforgiving world of REDACTED, where intense hack-and-slash action meets survival in a stunning sci-fi setting. Developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by KRAFTON, this 2024 release challenges players to battle through a dystopian landscape teeming with lethal foes. With its gripping storyline, REDACTED takes you deep into the fight for survival, where every decision matters, and every encounter could be your last. Designed for fans of high-energy shooters and tactical combat, this game delivers an adrenaline-pumping experience that keeps players coming back for more. REDACTED offers a seamless blend of hack-and-slash and shooter mechanics, set against a backdrop of sci-fi chaos and danger.

MUSYNX — the main advantage of this game is the widest range of music tracks in a variety of genres. Here you can go through levels with complex tracks, and levels accompanied by soft blues, and even levels with modern dance tracks, in which there will be more rhythms than you can imagine. Another advantage of this game is the availability of a huge number of visual themes. Each theme is unique in its own way, and each offers the player to independently dream up on a topic of the very level and where the player ended up. Somewhere bright cloudy landscapes will be waiting for you, somewhere you will have to rush forward at a tremendous speed forward along a futuristic tunnel, and somewhere you will at all have such a visual background that you will be delighted with. There are more than enough options. And the rest MUSYNX, this is a typical musical rhythm game. Go through the levels, set records, open new visual themes and just enjoy the gameplay.