Underplayed Gems

Ten Bells (2024)

Ten Bells cover
Developer
Hillfort Games, Acrylic Pixel
Publisher
Hillfort Games
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation
Rating
4.8 of 5, 583 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 2.3 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

an unsettling escape room that gradually pulls you from casual curiosity into immersive, tense puzzle-solving in a hauntingly real English pub

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What players say

Players praise Ten Bells as a standout anomaly game with quality-of-life improvements that make finding all anomalies and reaching the full ending rewarding instead of random. They like the two modes, including a harder nightmare mode, and the tense atmosphere. One player found it boring and not scary.

Screenshots

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