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The Rivergrove Files

It's 1999. You are sitting at a computer when you receive a mysterious message: “Don’t let them walk free,” along with a strange set of files. Can you piece together the truth before you run out of time?

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Ninja Chompek
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Ninja Chompek
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About the Game

The Rivergrove files is an immersive, story-driven mystery game set in 1999 and played through a simulated retro computer.

You are given access to an old desktop filled with files, emails, photos, phone logs, notes, browser pages, documents, receipts, and other fragments of evidence. By exploring the computer's programs, reading carefully, solving puzzles, and connecting clues, you must uncover the truth behind a suspicious case in the neighbourhood of Rivergrove.

The deeper you go, the more you uncover about the computer’s owner and their connection to everything.

Can you piece together the truth before you run out of time?

Game Features

  • Explore a nostalgic 1999-inspired operating system interface

  • Search through emails, files, documents, web pages, and hidden details

  • Solve narrative puzzles based on observation and deduction

  • Organise clues and build the timeline to identify the victim, the culprit, and the truth behind the case

  • Uncover the personal story of the computer’s owner and how they are connected to the mystery

  • Immerse yourself by playing retro mini-games and exploring the OS programs

  • Atmospheric retro visuals and sound inspired by late-90s desktop computers

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