Items6The creator’s order
  1. 1The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (2010)The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (2010) 7.1/10 on IGDBReleased Feb 17, 2010The Odd Gentlemen frame a pie thief's mischief with rhyming intertitles and black-and-white sets inspired by silent comedians including Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. You record your own movements and then play alongside a copy of yourself. Getting three versions of the same thief to work together…0
  2. 2Charlie Chaplin (1988)Charlie Chaplin (1988)Released Dec 31, 1988In the 1988 DOS edition, pick a script and guide Chaplin across a monochrome set while the scene is being filmed. Then you can review the take, edit it, or reshoot it before you show the whole movie. The attraction is seeing whether the gag you planned still works when you watch it back.0
  3. 3Karateka (2012)Karateka (2012) 6.0/10 on IGDBReleased Nov 7, 2012In the Apple II original, Jordan Mechner borrowed cross-cutting, tracking shots, and rotoscoped movement from his study of early film. The game can leave the fighter to show what is happening elsewhere, then return to the action. Watch how that cut gives you something to care about before you take…0
  4. 4Projector Face (2016)Projector Face (2016) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased Jun 1, 2016Illustrated cards tell the story of a voiceless figure who tries to make friends by showing movies. As you solve puzzles around the town, you repair film reels and find surfaces to project onto. The form of the story fits its subject: a character who can't explain himself looks for an image that…0
  5. 5The Eyes of Dr Kautzmann (2022)The Eyes of Dr Kautzmann (2022)Released Oct 1, 2022The developer draws on German Expressionist cinema for a mystery in a town whose streets and rooms look deliberately out of balance. You'll search those spaces for evidence and solve environmental puzzles to learn what happened. If the sets of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari drew your eye before the…0
  6. 6Ealu (2021)Ealu (2021)Released Aug 31, 2021In Éalú, a clockwork mouse searches for a way out of a wooden maze, with each movement photographed frame by frame on physical sets. The makers conceived it as an interactive silent film. Watch how the mouse moves around a choice you've made, and listen for when Will Wood's instrumental score turns…0