Finding Lake Chewaucan

Finding Lake Chewaucan is an educational mystery game in which you play a temporal forensics specialist investigating a broken fossil bone from Oregon’s sagebrush deserts. Use your ability to travel to the past, search for clues and solve puzzles through minigames to discover where an ancient animal came from, how it lived, and when and how it died. Your client needs the answers to solve the case and get paid, and a little girl’s birthday party is at stake.

Explore the Fort Rock Basin

The game explores Oregon’s Great Basin Desert and its ancient past, drawing on over 50 years of scientific research in the Fort Rock Basin. The bones and clues are real, and the game shows how they help modern scientists unlock the past.

Solve scientific puzzles

You play science-informed minigames, including a 3D platformer where you sample tufa rocks for radiocarbon and a Match 3 game used to identify fossil animals.