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Games Like a Museum of Dubious Splendors

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a Museum of Dubious Splendors, is a storybook from the world of Somewhere. A quiet game about prosaic objects and spurious histories, it is an irreverent rumination on the nature of an archive and forms of recollection.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 77% — of 173 reviews
Released: 2018-03-06
Developer: Studio Oleomingus
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 30 min
Mean playtime: 10.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 37%

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