Max: The secret of Grandpa's letter

A treasure map and a notebook full of riddles - that's everything Max inherits from his grandfather, and it's your job to make sense of both. Five minutes in, you're already climbing toward the Island of Lost Ships, following clues instead of a straight line, and figuring out what each cryptic note actually means before you can move on.

Max is a young wolf who wanted adventure and got handed one in the mail. His grandfather loved riddles enough to keep playing them from beyond the grave, and that's the whole hook of this Adventure games outing: every step forward is really a small puzzle solved. Simple tasks, sure, but each one nudges you closer to the treasure and deeper into the notebook's secrets.

Controls are straightforward - WASD to move, space to jump, mouse to swing the camera around and take in the scenery - so nothing gets between you and the mystery itself. If you're the sort who likes collecting clues and stacking them into an answer, Max's journey to the Island of Lost Ships is built exactly for that kind of patience.

Find the treasure. That's the win condition, and you get there by completing the tasks Max's grandfather left scattered through his old notebook, following each clue to the next.

On desktop, move with WASD, jump with space, and hold the right mouse button while moving the mouse to rotate the camera - scroll the wheel to zoom in or out. On phone, a mobile joystick handles movement.

Read every clue carefully before rushing off. The notebook's riddles usually point at something specific in the scene, so slow down and look around before you start climbing.