Lost Wiki: Kozlovka (v2026.04.10)

An anonymous tip sends a journalist toward Kozlovka, a small Eastern European town whose secrets sit not in alleyways or crime scenes, but inside an unnervingly detailed online encyclopedia. Lost Wiki: Kozlovka is an investigative indie puzzle game built around reading, comparing, and questioning a network of fictional wiki entries. Its mood starts quietly, with local history, biographies, organizations, and civic trivia, then grows steadily more disturbing as supposedly harmless details refuse to line up.

Most of the action takes place inside the database, where you follow hyperlinks, inspect connections between articles, and keep track of facts that may become essential later. Puzzles revolve around deduction rather than reflexes: identifying suspicious omissions, spotting recurring names or dates, and using one piece of information to unlock a deeper layer of the investigation. Completed challenges provide new knowledge and push the story forward, while reports to your unseen contact give the investigation a sense of direction. Progress depends on patient reading and a willingness to revisit earlier articles when fresh evidence changes their meaning.

Its strongest idea is turning the familiar, dry format of a wiki into the entire game world. Rather than presenting a conventional map to roam or a list of inventory items to combine, Kozlovka makes research itself feel like exploration, with every link potentially leading to either a solution or another unsettling loose end. The premise should appeal to players who enjoy the information-hunting side of Her Story, Return of the Obra Dinn, or detective escape-room games, though it trades visual action for close attention and critical thinking. Newcomers to mystery games can follow its gradually unfolding clues, while puzzle veterans are likely to appreciate chasing the town’s hidden logic through its increasingly tangled archive.