A House in California

Cardboard Computer’s A House in California (2010) isn’t really a game you play—it’s a dream you wander through. Equal parts poetic and puzzling, it takes the structure of a point-and-click adventure and replaces logic with surrealist poetry. You don’t just turn on lights; you “teach the darkness to sing.” You don’t just move characters; you “invite them into memory.” It’s abstract art dressed up as interactive fiction, and while it won’t scratch the itch for inventory-based problem solving, it will leave you thinking about it long after you close the window.