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So I just remembered these games I played some years ago, a bunch of browser flash escape room games by a specific creator/dev - I think the developer had their own site (in which case would be where I most likely played it) but the games might also have been on an browser game site under an "escape room" section, in which case they were likely also tagged with the creator's name. The creator was Japanese and I remember there being occasional Japanese text in the game (at least I think so? Not in anything that needed to be understood during the gameplay, but in game over screens, help menus and such)
The graphics were drawn in what I'd call a "simple but kind of unstylized" 2D style with no shading, and were overall known for being kinda... weird compared to a lot of escape games, in terms of having weird elements and imagery appear as background objects or items. A recurring element across the games (and a big part of the weirdness) were people just standing around various places for... no real reason, sometimes dressed in costumes (I think one game had a guy in a frog costume?) Usually they had nothing to do with the scene, but a few times they would also be part of giving you hints
Several (most?) of the games also had (usually obvious, but sometimes not) ways to die or otherwise get a game over, like pushing a suspicious button, walking into the wrong room ect.
Edited by Zanreo