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Studio Oleomingus · Published by Studio Oleomingus · Official site ↗
Mostly Positive — 77% positive (173 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
a Museum of Dubious Splendors, is a storybook from the world of Somewhere. A quiet game about prosaic objects and spurious histories, it is an irreverent rumination on the nature of an archive and forms of recollection.
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Adventure, Indie, Free To Play, Casual · 2018 · More free games
Delve into the quirky tales and questionable curiosities of a Museum of Dubious Splendors, an enchanting adventure where every object holds a hidden history. Created by Studio Oleomingus, this free-to-play game invites you to ponder the nature of memory in a casual, yet thought-provoking journey through Somewhere's eclectic exhibits.
About this game
The Museum of Dubious Splendors is half a storybook and half an exploration game.
It is a collection of folklore and oral tales, punctuated by peculiar rooms, that you wander through.
These tales, have been recreated from a collection of stories by Mir UmarHassan, a Gujarati poet whose works have proven notoriously difficult to translate because of the mellifluous use of Urdu and Hindi in his compositions.
The collection, entitled "in Dubious Splendor", was written (in Gujarati) in nineteen sixty two for the Malwa Chronicle, but the stories therein were mangled and edited without the author's permission prior to their publication in serialized form.
This contested collection of stories, became momentarily infamous as the subject of the first court case to arbitrate authorial ownership in Independent India.
Even today, despite countless restorative efforts by scholars, it cannot be said with with any certainty that the text that we used for this adaptation was the original as written by UmarHassan.
It is a collection of folklore and oral tales, punctuated by peculiar rooms, that you wander through.
These tales, have been recreated from a collection of stories by Mir UmarHassan, a Gujarati poet whose works have proven notoriously difficult to translate because of the mellifluous use of Urdu and Hindi in his compositions.
The collection, entitled "in Dubious Splendor", was written (in Gujarati) in nineteen sixty two for the Malwa Chronicle, but the stories therein were mangled and edited without the author's permission prior to their publication in serialized form.
This contested collection of stories, became momentarily infamous as the subject of the first court case to arbitrate authorial ownership in Independent India.
Even today, despite countless restorative efforts by scholars, it cannot be said with with any certainty that the text that we used for this adaptation was the original as written by UmarHassan.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS *: Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Core i3 +
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 560 & 1 GB VRAM+
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 900 MB available space
- Sound Card: Headphones recommended.
Supported Languages
English
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