Forgotten Hill on This Site: Story Order and What Each Game Is

The Forgotten Hill games are first-person point-and-click horror puzzles by FM Studio. Six of them are on this site. Four belong to the main story about Mr. Larson. The other two come from The Wardrobe, a separate series set in the same town. Below is the order the developer gives them in, and what we found inside each game's files.

1. Fall

This is where the story starts. Your car breaks down a few miles from the nearest town, your phone has no signal, and you leave your girlfriend waiting in the car while you look for help. The hints for this game's puzzles give a sense of what to expect. In one, Roman numerals tell you where to start counting. In another, a door shows insects (six legs) and spiders (eight legs). You also rotate masks to match symbols carved into a bookshelf and turn valve wheels to match the symbols on a cross.

2. Puppeteer

Puppeteer picks up right after Fall. You come back to the car to find it empty, apart from bloodstains and a strange ticket. A sign leads you to the puppet theatre, and you go in to look for your girlfriend. In one puzzle you rotate tiles to rebuild a picture. In another, pressing a button flips it and the ones next to it. The developer says The Gambler first appears in this game.

3. Surgery

The third game takes place in the clinic of Colonel McMillan, where the staff call you Mister Larson. The clinic has a list of rules, including “Obey the nurse”, “Don't look in the mirrors” and “Follow the rules”. Someone asks you to find marbles, and someone else wants you to play a game. In the puzzles you rotate pipes to get the plumbing working, move blocks so a light beam reaches every valve, and place coloured tiles next to tiles of the same colour.

4. Disillusion: The Library

Disillusion is the fourth chapter of the main story. It takes place in the Forgotten Hill Museum, which has four sections: The Library, Flora and Fauna, Mysteries of the Abyss and Sculptural Art. The developer's Steam page says the full game has more than 50 locations and over 60 puzzles. The browser game here covers The Library only. The rest is sold on Steam, mobile and consoles.

The Wardrobe chapters

The Wardrobe is a five-chapter series of its own. The game listed here as The Wardrobe opens with a story about two brothers. One of them, Waylon, makes “friends” who live in the wardrobe, and before the wardrobe can be closed you have to get all the Evil Imps back inside. The Wardrobe 4 is the fourth chapter, which the developer calls The Price of a Smile. Its notes include a receipt for a two-dollar dental procedure.

How they play

All six games work the same way. You click around a scene, pick up items, use them where they fit and solve each room's puzzles. Fall, Puppeteer and Surgery each have a short hint for every puzzle, and the browser versions also have an option to unlock all the hints. The text is translated into several languages, and you can switch language in the game.

If you want the longer versions

FM Studio later put Fall, Puppeteer and Surgery together in Forgotten Hill First Steps (Steam, June 2021). That version has redrawn graphics, new scenes and puzzles that link the three games into one story. The official Forgotten Hill site lists the full series.