Dyer Expedition

Dyer Expedition

Monkeys With Jobs · 2025 · Lovecraftian, Atmospheric, Exploration, Pixel Graphics, Retro

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About Dyer Expedition

Dyer Expedition is a puzzle adventure game with light Lovecraftian horror elements and a story inspired by Lovecraft's 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness.

It's 1931 and Antarctic continent is still a new scientific frontier. The Miskatonic University of Massachusetts has launched an expedition, led by William Dyer, to excavate fossils and find concrete evidence for scientific hypotheses about the land. The expedition arrived on an island in the Antarctic region but contact was soon lost as their supply ship returned to an all but abandoned base camp.

You not only fear the worst for your colleagues but you also have an inexplicable sense of dread surrounding the expedition. Without support from the university anytime soon, you begin a rogue mission to find out what happened to the team. You make your way to Australia and find a fishing boat that is willing to drop you off and pick you back up after two days.

Features


  • Explore atmospheric levels and solve puzzles to progress.
  • Immerse yourself in the story.
  • Reveal the fate of the expedition.
  • Retro graphics (can be disabled in the settings).
  • Original soundtrack.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Dec 27, 2025
The style and puzzles were nice. It's not a long game but it is about the right length for what it is. I would rate it highly for a game that adapts H.P. Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness"
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Recommended Jul 2, 2026
Love that you have to figure out how to solve the puzzles by yourself, some quite tricky, but original. Foreboding atmosphere with liminal, alien spaces, great ambiance and sound. You don't need to slap the word Necronomicon in there to get it; the cosmic horror comes through anyway. I'd like more story. More weird jumps to random offices. The mix between our tangible reality and the vastness of the unknown. I'm sorry it was cut so short, hence the refund.
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Recommended Mar 22, 2026
[b]Built by a single developer, and it shows in all the right ways.[/b] The style suits the pixel horror format well. I finished it in about 50 minutes; the puzzles are enjoyable, and the atmosphere holds throughout. The [spoiler]three-sound[/spoiler] puzzle may stretch believability in context, but that is a minor grievance. The dark ambient soundtrack drew me in once I learned it was on Cryo Chamber, I had to try it. For a one-person project, the craft here is considerable. Support these games.
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Not recommended Jan 3, 2026
Great visuals and fantastic atmosphere. Interesting lovecraftian concept, but it could have had way more. And the game is way too short, completed it in 56 minutes and was honestly baffled that it ended so soon and thus expected more even given its 7 dollar price range. Had this sitting in my wishlist for a while so overall I was pretty disappointed, the visuals and good sound aside.
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Recommended Jul 29, 2026
Quite a trippy experience.
Not recommended Jun 29, 2026
It's a fairly immersive, hour-long, one shot adventure. Which makes it an enjoyable little game to kick back and decompress with after work. However, there is no way I can recommend anyone buy this game for $8. I picked it up on summer sale for $2.39, which feels okay for the value.

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