People are vanishing from an island community, then turning up with their memories erased. Can you find out who’s responsible without becoming a victim? Follow the Meaning is full of peculiar characters and hand-drawn art that teeters between quirky and unsettling. As you track clues, you’ll infiltrate a weird nightclub, brew potions in a cauldron and even get kidnapped by aliens!

What we love: The inventive puzzles. One moment you’re making a bogus call for an ambulance so the speeding vehicle will open a locked gate; the next you’re solving brain-teasers inside a tree trunk. Don’t ask too many questions – just go with the flow!

Quick tip: When navigating the submarine maze, look carefully at the instrument panels scattered around the interior. The position of the blinking green light on each panel – first, second or third – tells you which door to go through next.

Meet the creator: Based in Toruń, Poland, HiKing Mind Studio was founded by brothers Marcin and Jakub Malinowski, who used their backgrounds in escape-room design to develop Follow the Meaning’s offbeat puzzles.