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Cotton Game releases Shattered Dimension, a surreal mobile puzzle mystery

Shattered Dimension turns CottonGame’s surreal style into a tabletop detective mystery across restaurants, police stations and a hidden lab.

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Cotton Game releases Shattered Dimension, a surreal mobile puzzle mystery
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CottonGame released Shattered Dimension with a pitch that should land quickly for puzzle fans: an overhead tabletop mystery, a labyrinthine investigator story and a border world that looks unstable enough to make every room feel like a clue. The game is already on Google Play and the App Store, and its first impression is clear. This is not another generic hidden-object shuffle; it is a surreal adventure built around exploration, item collection and puzzle solving.

That matters because CottonGame has spent years building exactly this kind of lane. The Shanghai-based studio was founded in 2013 and says its mission is to combine gaming with new media art and visual arts. Its debut title, Mr. Pumpkin Adventure, was described by the company as mainland China’s first game to collaborate with Sony PS4 for online sales in 2015, and CottonGame says that game later appeared on Xbox One, PlayStation Vita, Wii U and Steam. The company’s Chinese profile also says the Isoland series has passed 10 million downloads, which gives Shattered Dimension a credible pedigree before a player even taps in.

On mobile, the hook is not just the art direction. The Google Play listing describes Shattered Dimension as an overhead perspective tabletop puzzle game set in a mysterious and fantastical border world, with the player cast as an investigator drawn into the mystery. That setup suggests a pacing built for touch screens: moving through rooms, checking objects, and piecing together how each space connects to the next. The environments matter too. Restaurants, police stations, grocery stores and a hidden laboratory give the game a run of everyday spaces that slowly turn uncanny, which is exactly the kind of structure that can make a puzzle game feel larger than its scene count.

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For a crowded premium puzzle market, that combination gives Shattered Dimension a real shot at attention. It has CottonGame’s established taste for dream logic, a readable detective premise and a visual identity that does not blur into the usual mobile puzzle noise. Google Play also lists the Android package name as com.cottongame.FrontierSpace and notes in-app purchases, while the App Store carries the game under ID 6743739470. Released on May 7, 2026, it looks like the sort of mobile puzzler where the surreal presentation is doing real gameplay work, not just cosmetic work.

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