9 Clues 2: The Ward
Released Jul 2015
Solve the mystery of Mnemosyne Asylum!
91% positive · 989 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
9 Clues 2: The Ward is a self-contained mystery adventure game that released on July 23, 2015. The store description presents a complete, finished product — a single narrative experience set in a psychiatric hospital with a defined set of locations (42), mini-games (19), and achievements (39). There is no DLC listed, no season pass, no roadmap, and no developer statements about future content additions for this game. Notably, all 49 developer news posts scanned are entirely about a different game (Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love), which was published by the same publisher, Artifex Mundi. None of the news posts are relevant to 9 Clues 2: The Ward. This is consistent with the game having launched as a complete, standalone product with no post-launch content cycle. The game shipped as a finished package and has remained that way.
Evidence
Store description presents a fully featured, self-contained game with specific counts of locations, mini-games, and achievements — consistent with a complete product shipped at launch with no additional content planned.
All 49 developer news posts scanned relate to a different Artifex Mundi title (Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love), not to 9 Clues 2: The Ward. There are no developer communications of any kind about post-launch content or updates for this game.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Artifex Mundi
Achievements
39
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
"The Ward" is the second installment in the 9 Clues series, in which a young detective and her partner respond to a distress call from a psychiatric hospital on a secluded island.
The island is isolated by freezing waters and constant, brutal storms. Upon the detectives’ arrival, one of the hospital’s therapists falls out of the window to his death.
As their investigation begins, the detectives learn much darker things are happening at Mnemosyne Asylum than they could have guessed. None of the patients are willing to speak about the devastating fire that engulfed the hospital four years ago, or the fire’s victims. The staff do everything they can to obscure the asylum’s past, and keep the façade of peace and order intact.
Each new clue only raises more questions. Who killed Doctor Crow? What drove one of the male nurses insane? Who is Zed Rascov? Why is the name of a little girl, Ginger, carved into the wood-paneled wall of the dead doctor’s office?
The island is isolated by freezing waters and constant, brutal storms. Upon the detectives’ arrival, one of the hospital’s therapists falls out of the window to his death.
As their investigation begins, the detectives learn much darker things are happening at Mnemosyne Asylum than they could have guessed. None of the patients are willing to speak about the devastating fire that engulfed the hospital four years ago, or the fire’s victims. The staff do everything they can to obscure the asylum’s past, and keep the façade of peace and order intact.
Each new clue only raises more questions. Who killed Doctor Crow? What drove one of the male nurses insane? Who is Zed Rascov? Why is the name of a little girl, Ginger, carved into the wood-paneled wall of the dead doctor’s office?
Features
- Detective Mode: solve crime scenes by intuitively placing clues
- Eerie story set in a psychiatric hospital in 1950s America
- 42 atmospheric locations
- 19 challenging mini-games
- 39 achievements to unlock
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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