From a solo developer, Radiolight casts you in the role of Ethan, a police officer in the town of Ashwood Creek in 1985. A boy is missing, and Ethan ventures into a vast national park looking for answers. Strange radio signals are the first sign that this is not a routine investigation.

I am two hours in and while at times there has a bit much wandering the forest, I am enjoying myself.

It plays in the first person and uses the keyboard extensively, including to get around, although you can map keys to suit and get the mouse more involved. You will have a map and a flashlight (I recommend leaving that on) as well as a walkie-talkie which you use to report things to 'head office' and a separate radio that is important in terms of the signals you begin to hear. Puzzling to date has been finding and using things, and exploration is a significant part. Objectives will pop up, cutscenes will punctuate events, and you can save at will, but only to a single save point. It isn't a visually pretty game, but its perfectly fine for the environment and atmosphere created, helped by the muted colour palette. It is voiced, and ambient noise and a not-there-all-the-time soundtrack rounds things out.

On the basis of what has come to date, I will definitely play this through to its conclusion.

21. beeswax

Thanks Marian!

One solve per person please
Update: No longer capped at one solve per person.
Go forth and solve!

Thank you, BET 😑

Nope! Doesn't say anything about locking the home screen that I can see. As for knowing how manage the icons, for today I do (don't know if I'll remember next week).

Excellent close

Ah ha...I made the (incorrect) assumption I had to modify as many words in the saying 'where possible' with rhyming words

Great mind twizzler!!

As you say Jimbo, a nice alternative. Cigar goes to Sherlock however

Sherlock - (And it was the name S & G performed under until 1963)

Koala - many thanks!

Actually, I have tried to use the new 5.0 Game Manager on an old Windows 7 computer as well as on our Windows 11 computer, and it would not run on Windows 7 but instead gave me an error message.

If you are referring to Lucas Fish's posts, he is well aware that Dire Grove and some other titles do not run on Windows 7.

I finished Tormentum 1: Dark Sorrow. I liked the game but I did not know at the beginning that there were different ways to solve the puzzles and that I was being judged or tested so I ended up "bad" from the get-go.

I think I am going to play Nancy Drew #24: The Captive Curse next.

That is a new one for me soot. I'll have to check it out.