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Mindlock - The Apartment

Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

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Developer
Roof Cut Media
Publisher
USM
Release
November 26, 2024
1 year and 249 days ago
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Overwhelmingly Positive677 reviews95.7%

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About the Game

One surreal morning, Colin’s apartment door disappears just as he is getting ready for his monotonous job. The apartment turns into a chaotic labyrinth and some inexplicable phenomena shake Colin’s worldview.


A cryptic message written on the bathroom mirror, a mysterious puppet in his bedroom, and some emotional challenges terrify Colin. New visitors constantly appear, making Colin question his past, present and future. Will Colin discover a new meaning to his life? Or was it all just a bizarre dream?

Features

Locked in your own apartment

Rooms transform, familiar faces appear as creepy characters - and there is no way for you to hide. Face the horror in your own apartment.

Solve multifaceted puzzles

Help Colin escape from his apartment and decipher hair-raising puzzles, convert household items into useful tools and free yourself from your nightmare.

More than 4 hours of exciting and fully soundtracked dialogues

Experience a professionally dubbed adventure with many interesting characters - brought to life by professional voice actors.

Lovingly hand drawn and animated

Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn masterpiece - full of loving animations and interactions, crazy characters and a constantly changing game world.

Face Colin‘s fears

Meet Colin and help him face his fears. Experience a complex adventure full of dry humor between harsh reality an mystical changes.

Relive Colin’s memories

Dive into Colin’s complex mind and find repressed memories, hidden thought processes, and long-forgotten dreams.
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