Hollowreach

Hollowreach is a quiet exploration adventure. You descend into an old mine, tap to move and examine, and slowly piece together what happened to the people who worked there. There's no combat — the tension comes from the dark and from a hand-drawn map you fill in yourself.

The puzzles are environmental and fair. You find a lever here, a note there, and the game trusts you to connect them without flashing hints everywhere. I got genuinely stuck once and the solution turned out to be sitting in my own map notes the whole time.

It's a short, memorable game — four or five hours — and it runs beautifully offline. A great candidate for a single long journey.

What we liked

• Atmospheric sound design
• Fair, note-based puzzles
• Perfect length for a trip