Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe 2 — Play Free Online

Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe 2 is a point-and-click puzzle adventure. Instead of chasing a score, you explore a creepy, hand-drawn setting, collect objects, and work out what each one is for. It is a slow, thoughtful game, and that makes it a useful change of pace next to the fast tapping and jumping that most of this catalogue is built around.

A session is about curiosity. You look at every corner of a scene, pick up whatever can be picked up, and try items on anything that looks like it might respond. When a lock, a machine or a character blocks you, the answer is almost always something you have already seen or carried a few screens earlier. If you came to Doodle Jump for quick, repeatable runs, this plays the opposite way: no timer, nothing chasing you, just you and the puzzle in front of you.

How to play

The game lists the arrow keys or WASD for moving and the mouse for aiming and selecting. On a phone or tablet, you tap and swipe instead. In practice, most of the action is pointing: click or tap to examine something, pick it up, or use it, and move between areas by selecting the edges or doorways of the scene.

Your goal in each area is to find what you need and combine or use it correctly. If you are stuck, you have usually missed an object, so go back and check places you have already visited. Some puzzles are worked out by observation, such as a symbol or number you saw earlier that now makes sense.

Tips

• Click on everything, including background details. Items that can be taken or opened are easy to overlook.
• When a puzzle needs a code or pattern, look back through the rooms you have already seen for matching clues.
• Keep a pen and paper nearby for numbers, symbols and sequences, since you may need them several screens later.
• If you are stuck, take a short break. A fresh look often shows the thing you missed.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Doodle Jump itself is the opposite experience: one-thumb, endless and reflex-driven. Fireboy and Watergirl is the closest relative on the site, since it also asks you to solve small puzzles and work out how a room fits together, though you do it with two characters rather than by collecting objects. Helix Jump suits you better if you want a puzzle-flavoured game that you can pick up and finish in a minute.

It suits patient players, anyone who likes mystery and exploration, and sessions where you have time to think rather than react. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, on desktop or on a touchscreen.