Hi! I'm not totally sure if this kind of question is okay to post here, but at this point I'm really not sure where else to look so I figured I'd at least try. I played this game a few years ago. I'm pretty sure I played this game during COVID. I remember most of the plot and a lot of the puzzles, but I can't rememember the title or the names of any characters. I'm like 99% sure I played it from itch.io, so I'm hoping someone here has heard of it/played it.
This was a free-to-play PC game that I played at least a couple years ago. It was an adventure/puzzle game in third person where there were a variety of areas you went through. The overarching storyline was a young girl (young teen/preteen?) trying to find her father who left their car after it ran out of gas in a storm, and learning about her mother and supernatural powers along the way. It was at least a few hours long.
The game starts with a girl and her father on the road, driving somewhere. The car runs out of gas and they have to stop, and the dad goes off to search for help. There's a storm going on. The dad doesn't come back for a while and the girl starts to worry. She starts talking to her teddy bear, and he talks back. They end up deciding to go in search of the dad, and stumble across a weird hotel (I'm like pretty sure it was a hotel but it could have been a mansion, some kind of big house type thing anyway) that's seemingly abandoned. She calls out for her dad but he doesn't answer. The elevators are like locked and she has to go through all the rooms to progress via puzzles through the hotel. Eventually she runs into two people who are talking about supernatural powers and seem to want to kill her.
The game was mostly pixellated, but it might have had some drawn out CGs. There's one visual thing that I remember super distinctly, which is a part in the first area, an abandoned hotel (?), where you had to climb through vents to advance. They were drawn out and gray with repeating lines, and there was a metal clanking noise each time you advanced through them.
There was an overarching theme through the game of supernatural powers. We find out that the hotel which the girl first runs into to find her dad was actually a base for this secret organization that did research into ESP and kidnapped children who had supernatural powers, and that they were trying to kidnap her because they thought she had the same supernatural powers as her mom did. I can't remember what these powers were exactly but they were something to do with the fact that her teddy bear could talk to her, and they were super strong.
I remember there were parts where you had to push boxes and other things around to block doors and solve puzzles. Aside from those types of puzzles there were various other ones, but I don't remember the exact details of most of them. There was one specific one in the lower part of the weird hotel where the game started that had prison cells where the girl had to follow the shadow/ghost of a kidnapped child that ended up committing suicide, based on certain times that I think were written in a journal of some sort. At some point I think she had to like, zip line out of the hotel to get to the next area?
There was also some sort of mirror or box or wardrobe where you could change the main character's outfit, which ended up playing a part in a puzzle in a later area which was a business of some sort, where you had to make your outfit certain colors like the uniforms of different types of employees (like white outfit for a chef) in order to get into different rooms. The game ended in a car chase. There's a part where you have to move through some sort of field while avoiding the gazes of characters who are patrolling and trying to catch you. There's another puzzle where there's like a bunch of spots in a circle like a clock and you have to set the right time. There was a part where the girl's stuffed bear got stuck in a claw machine, and she had to find a missing part for the machine to save him.
She continues through the hotel and eventually gets out and heads through some kind of hedge maze into a small town. There's a boy who has disappeared and she's asked about him. People try to lock her in a house but she escapes through the window and runs off. The she makes it to some business-like thing, solves more puzzles, and eventually heads out into a car chase scene. Somewhere in there (either slightly before the car chase scene or after) there are flashbacks to her father and mother. Her mother had some kind of incredible superpower/ESP that made her targetted by the secret organization that used the hotel as a base, and they were trying to kidnap the girl because they thought she had inheritted that power.
Would really appreciate if anyone knows what game this is or how I could go about finding it beyond what I've already tried (google, looking through my downloads, posting on other forums, etc).