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Aurora Hills: Chapter 1

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2024

Should you play it?

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 is the first part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!

What works

  • Beautiful and realistic graphics
  • Engaging and challenging puzzles
  • Strong atmospheric and immersive story
  • Helpful hint system
  • Free initial chapter with good value

Things to keep in mind

  • Some puzzles can be confusing or unintuitive
  • Navigation and interaction hitboxes can be clunky
  • Limited customization and social features
  • Short length for initial chapter
  • Occasional immersion breaks due to puzzle logic

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Room 4: Old Sins

  • Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit

  • The Room Three

  • Meridian 157: Chapter 3

  • The House of Da Vinci 3

  • Dark Fall: The Journal

Less continuation-driven

Games that feels like Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 but with less of a pull toward endless continuation

  • Blameless

  • The Guest

  • What Never Was

  • The Room VR: A Dark Matter

  • Rhome

  • Red Matter

Choose your own criteria ->

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Aurora Hills: Chapter 1. These titles are not in What to play next.

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026