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Fans of fantasy adventures with a little retro flair need wait no longer for their next fix, as Rogue Quest: The Vault of the Lost Tyrant has just been launched for PC.

In space, no one can hear you scream... especially if you're the only person around, as so often seems to be the case. This is true once again in No Wand Studios' The Fall of Lazarus, newly-released on Steam with a free standalone prologue.

And now for something completely different... Yorkshire Gubbins!

Portugal may be the third best country on the Global Peace Index, but for the second time in four years, it's got a serious crime problem! Fortunately, Detective Case and Clown Bot are on the job again, or will be when their second adventure, The Express Killer, is released early next year.

Kids lose their stuffed animals all the time, and it's always traumatic for them. But what about for the toys themselves? In White Lie, an upcoming adventure from indie Brazilian developer Ambize Studio, we'll get to experience one plush bunny's emotional journey back to its owner for ourselves.

Most murder mysteries include fresh crime scenes to scour and multiple witnesses and suspects to question. But what if the murder case you're investigating is four years old and occurred in a town that has since been mysteriously abandoned? That challenge is yours if you wish, in EQ Studios' recently-released The Painscreek Killings.

Warning: Giddiness alert! Read no further if your medical condition cannot withstand uncontrolled giggling, intense befuddlement, and bouts of sheer, unadulterated joy. That's because Amanita Design, the creators of such whimsical classics as Samorost, Machinarium and Botanicula, have just revealed their latest "comedy adventure" named CHUCHEL, which looks like it could be their zaniest game yet.

You might equate ritzy hotels with comfortable beds, room service, and helpful bellhops, but gamers can expect a whole lot of weirdness from Cosmo D's newly-released The Norwood Suite.

Imagine that you find yourself on an island, with no knowledge of past events. However, you soon learn that your arrival was foretold by a mysterious message, and as you explore you begin to discover connections between yourself and one of the first “victims” of a mysterious creature vital to the island’s existence. This is the situation presented in Seek Not a Lighthouse, an upcoming point-and-click adventure game by Judah Mantell and his one-man indie studio, MidnightCoffee, set for release later this month.

In life, we all want to avoid a collection of bad moments, but in gaming they can make for grand entertainment, as indie developer Sky Trail Studios hopes to show us later this year with their appropriately-named latest sci-fi adventure.

If you ever visit the Canadian north, expect to do a lot of shivering. But it's not just the cold that will have players quaking next month, when indie developer Kowai Sugoi Studios abandons us in an eerily deserted national park in the upcoming horror adventure Shiver.

It's been a whole century since the first World War, but its horrors have still (rightly) not been forgotten. Helping to keep those memories alive is a new episodic adventure called Within Whispers, set to debut next spring on PC.

It may still be September, but with fall just around the corner, it's right around that time we start to hear more of black cats, ghosts, and other haunting themes. One of the first off the mark is COCOSOLA's indie puzzle-adventure, The Witch's Isle, newly ported to PC after an earlier launch on mobile devices.

What do you get when a wisecracking demon finds himself in the crosshairs of demon hunters hired by his arch nemesis? If you said, a comedic “tribute to late ‘90s point-and-click adventure games,” then congratulations, you’re absolutely right! If not…read on to learn more about the newly-released Darkestville Castle anyway!

What if you were destined is to become a hero, but were held back by a crippling fear of heights, of danger, or even of being noticed? Indie developer Librarium Studios aims to answer these questions and more in the recently-released puzzle-adventure, The Müll Littoral.