Mindlock - The Apartment

Adventure· Puzzle· Point & Click· Dark Humor

Released Nov 2024

Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

95% positive · 673 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

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Steam Updated 12 Oct 2026 $14.99

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Evaluation

Mindlock - The Apartment is a narrative adventure game that launched on November 26, 2024. The game shipped as a self-contained story-driven experience. Following release, the developer issued one gameplay patch on December 20, 2024, revising two puzzles based on player feedback. The only DLC is the Original Soundtrack, which released on December 16, 2024 — a music pack rather than story or gameplay content. The most recent developer post, dated March 14, 2025, reflects positively on the game's reception and closes with the phrase "Stay tuned – we're far from done." This line is ambiguous: in context it reads as general enthusiasm following a successful launch rather than a specific commitment to new gameplay content. Importantly, no roadmap, named expansion, or unshipped content has been announced. There are no unreleased DLC entries on the store, and no post-launch major content updates have shipped. The game has no sustained post-launch content pattern — the single patch addressed puzzle balance, not new content. Given the genre (a finite narrative adventure), the absence of any announced future content, and the fact that the sole DLC is a soundtrack that has already released, the game reads as a complete, shipped product. The last developer communication was on March 14, 2025.

Evidence

Developer celebrates successful launch, mentions media coverage and positive reviews, closes with 'Stay tuned – we're far from done' — but no specific future content is announced.

news post · Mar 14, 2025 source ambiguous

medium

Original Soundtrack DLC released — the only DLC for the game, a music pack with no gameplay content. All listed DLC has shipped.

dlc listing · Dec 16, 2024 source content shipped

medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

Mindlock - The Apartment: Original Soundtrack

Dec 2024

Media

Details

Developer

Roof Cut Media

Publisher

USM

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS

Controller

—

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Point & Click Adventure Dark Humor Puzzle Dialogue Heavy Story Rich 2D Psychological Horror Dark Comedy Linear Horror Surreal Hand-drawn Atmospheric Mythology

About this game

One surreal morning, Colin’s apartment door disappears just as he is getting ready for his monotonous job. The apartment turns into a chaotic labyrinth and some inexplicable phenomena shake Colin’s worldview.

A cryptic message written on the bathroom mirror, a mysterious puppet in his bedroom, and some emotional challenges terrify Colin. New visitors constantly appear, making Colin question his past, present and future. Will Colin discover a new meaning to his life? Or was it all just a bizarre dream?

Features

Locked in your own apartment

Rooms transform, familiar faces appear as creepy characters - and there is no way for you to hide. Face the horror in your own apartment.

Solve multifaceted puzzles

Help Colin escape from his apartment and decipher hair-raising puzzles, convert household items into useful tools and free yourself from your nightmare.