The Refuge: Echoes of Time
History guards the keys
Expected Sep 15, 2026 · Free · In‑App Purchases
An impossible hotel. Twenty remarkable lives. One journalist determined to learn the truth behind Elias Vale and every locked door in The Refuge.
Welcome to The Refuge - an impossible hotel where every room still belongs to one remarkable guest from history. Walk through the lives of visionaries such as Katherine Johnson, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono, Coco Chanel, Walter Russell, and many others by exploring the traces they left behind: letters, journals, photographs, forgotten conversations, and carefully preserved personal archives.
As investigative journalist Milka, you'll solve handcrafted word puzzles, decipher hidden documents, connect scattered clues, and gradually uncover the mystery surrounding the hotel's enigmatic owner, Elias Vale.
The Refuge is the first chapter of a larger story. While this game stands on its own, many of its answers open the door to even bigger questions still waiting beyond the final page.
FEATURES
• Story-driven word puzzles, crosswords, anagrams, and text mysteries.
• Search beautifully detailed rooms for hidden objects and historical clues.
• Read letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper articles, interviews, and private archives inspired by real historical figures.
• Meet more than twenty remarkable minds whose ideas changed the world in completely different ways.
• Explore an original mystery where every solved puzzle reveals another piece of the hotel's past.
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- Purchases
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- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Alnima Inc.
- Size
- 92 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Special – 400 Coins $1.99
- Platinum – 5500 Coins $29.99
- Gold – 3500 Coins $19.99
- Bronze – 300 Coins $2.99
- Silver – 1000 Coins $6.99
- Copyright
- © Alnima Inc.