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The Last Curator

A first-person jigsaw puzzle game set in a museum that has been closed for thirty years. Find the scattered pieces of 39 real paintings and fit them back into their frames. Each finished painting brings light and music back to its room.

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About the Game

A museum to put back together

The museum closed after a flood and stayed shut for thirty years. The lights are out, the benches are under dust sheets, and the paintings lie in pieces on the floor. Pick the pieces up, carry them to the empty frames and fit them in right on the wall. Every painting you finish changes its room: the lamps come back on, the sheets come off, plants return and the music starts again.

Real paintings

39 public-domain works by Vermeer, Van Gogh, Hokusai, Monet, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Klimt, Dürer, Hiroshige and others. Pieces come in five cuts: classic jigsaw, straight grid, tiles, irregular shards and broken glass. The museum journal keeps a short note on every work you restore.

The curator's letters

The last curator left letters around the building. They explain why the doors were chained shut, and they mention a room that is not on the map.

Easy or hard, your choice

Relaxed gives strong hints and unlimited storage. Challenge makes the puzzles bigger, hides the preview and gives you pieces already rotated. Restoration Points buy upgrades such as Focus, Memory and Curator's Eye.

Once the museum reopens

Free Play, challenges with modifiers, New Game+ and puzzles made from your own pictures. There is a photo mode too.

Interface in English, Russian, German, French and Spanish. Reduced motion, sound captions, UI scaling and fully rebindable controls.

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