Title: Strange Antiquities Series: Undermere #2
Publisher: Iceberg Interactive
Developer: Bad Viking
Release Date: September 17, 2025
Genres: Indie, Narrative Adventure, Puzzle
Platform: GeForce Now, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Steam
Where to Buy: Amazon, Steam
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Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Review
Strange Antiquities is an atmospheric puzzle horror game where you attend to an antiques shop that specializes in occult objects and other oddities. I picked up Strange Antiquities after falling in love with its predecessor, Strange Horticulture and WOW. Strange Antiquities absolutely blew me away.
Where Strange Horticulture flirted with the occult, Strange Antiquities dives in head first. From the very first day I felt unnerved upon seeing the locked shelf and the story makes clear from the beginning that there is danger around the corner. The atmosphere in this game is full of dread and I felt like I was looking through things I shouldn’t be. A few familiar faces return from Strange Horticulture and I was really delighted to meet these characters again.
The basics of the game remains the same: you take time identifying objects, follow clues and explore to find more, and make decisions that impact the outcome of the story. It’s not an understatement to say though that this game massively expands the complexity of the puzzles from it’s predecessor. There are layers upon layers of puzzles and things to discover, even within the little shop that you run. There is a short tutorial in the beginning to get the player acclimated with the game, but after that the kid gloves are off. The puzzles were fairly intuitive, but some were really difficult and required creative thinking to solve. The feeling of figuring out one of the harder puzzles and hearing something click into place was unmatched, and there were many jaw dropping moments.
Finishing the game made me lament leaving Undermere, I loved both games in this series. They’ve become some of my favorite puzzle games and I want so much to play more games like these.
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“The ravens were an omen… A circling unkindness of black wings and cheerless cries that seemed, even then, to signal the start of a rising dread.”
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