Underplayed Gems

Nugatory (2026)

Nugatory cover
Developer
Cademon
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Simulation, Free To Play
Rating
5.0 of 5, 19 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 55 minutes
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A slow-burn investigative puzzle where you piece together alibis and clues through repeated resets in a quiet, sterile facility.

isolatedmysteriousrepetitivetensepuzzlingmethodicallo-fisci-fi

What players say

Players call Nugatory a short, voice acted visual novel about finding a shapeshifting alien on a space station. The writing is comedic and the art charming, though the mystery is not very hard to solve. Reviewers finish all endings in about an hour.

Screenshots

Nugatory screenshot 1Nugatory screenshot 2Nugatory screenshot 3Nugatory screenshot 4Nugatory screenshot 5

More games like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.