Dimhaven: The Lost Source marks the long-awaited return of Zadbox Entertainment, the team behind the cult first-person puzzler Quern – Undying Thoughts. Co-published with Blue Brain Games, it carries the same DNA: a richly modeled, explorable world where every door, mechanism, and scrap of text is a thread to pull. This time the setting is Dimhaven, a fog-wrapped estate haunted by the legacy of the Ravenwood family, and the central mystery concerns a vanished “source” whose disappearance has frozen the place in unease.
Gameplay is pure first-person exploration and environmental puzzle solving. There is no combat and no fail state — only locked rooms, encoded notes, optical contraptions, and layered logic puzzles that reward patient observation. The Ravenwood manor is built as an interconnected space rather than a corridor of discrete rooms, so solutions in one wing frequently unlock understanding in another, and backtracking with new knowledge is part of the rhythm. Zadbox has emphasized readable, fair puzzle design over obscurity, with an in-world notebook that tracks clues so you are never stuck for lack of a reminder.
Visually it pushes well beyond Quern, with detailed lighting and material work that make the act of simply looking around feel rewarding. The narrative unfolds environmentally — through documents, audio fragments, and the architecture itself — building toward the truth behind the Ravenwood name and the lost source at the estate’s core. Releasing June 23, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Mac, and Linux, Dimhaven is shaping up as essential for anyone who counts Myst, The Witness, or Quern among their favorites.
