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Forgotten Hill: Surgery is a point-and-click horror puzzle game set in the run-down hospital of a creepy village. You are not fighting anything. You are looking, clicking, collecting and thinking, while the setting does the unsettling work. It is a slow, tense kind of scare, quite different from watching a camera feed and rationing power.

A session is built around one question: what does this room want from me? You search the scene for items, pick up what is useful, work out where each thing belongs and slowly open a path through the building. Progress comes from noticing details rather than from quick reflexes, so it suits a quiet, focused twenty minutes better than a frantic one.

For a fan of Five Nights at Freddy's, the appeal is the same dread of being somewhere you should not be, with the pressure coming from atmosphere and sound instead of timers and doors.

How to play

The game is played almost entirely with the mouse. Click to move between views, click objects and buttons on screen to examine or take them, and open the inventory from the bar the game shows to use or combine what you are carrying. There is nothing to memorise on the keyboard.

A typical stretch goes like this: enter a room, click around every corner and piece of furniture, collect anything you can take, then try items on things that look locked, broken or incomplete. When a puzzle stalls, the answer is usually an item you passed earlier or a spot you have not clicked yet.

Tips

• Turn the sound up. In these games you often hear something wrong before you see it, and audio is part of the mood.
• Re-check earlier rooms after you pick up a new item. Puzzles in this style often send you back.
• Try combining items in your inventory before hunting for a hidden object elsewhere.
• Keep a scrap of paper for codes and symbols you spot, since you may need them a few screens later.

Similar games on FNAF Plus

The same site has several other games from this series and this style. Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe and Forgotten Hill: Puppeteer keep the same click-and-solve approach in different settings, and The Left Behind: A Forgotten Hill Tale is another entry in that world. If you would rather have pressure from a clock than from puzzles, Five Nights at Freddy's and its sequels are the more reactive choice, while Fear Response leans toward exploring and surviving.

It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and the game keeps progress in your browser so you can return to it later. A mouse or trackpad is all you need, which also makes it comfortable on a laptop or Chromebook.