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The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a adventure, puzzle and action game
developed by Simogo
and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Released on May 16th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 2,271 reviews of which 2,151 were positive and 120 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-540 or AMD Phenom II X4 965
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB or AMD Radeon HD 5670, 2GB or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: If playing on Steam Deck, there's a small issue with line rendering not being pixel perfect in the latest revisions of Proton. Proton 7 is verified to work as intended.
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Blue Prince minus the annoying RNG. Seriously folks, this is a fantastic puzzle game with incredible atmosphere that reeks of David Lynch and Guy Maddin.
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8/10 If David Lynch ever made an escape room puzzle game, this would be it. What is it: A surreal/horror escape room full of riddles, but technically it’s not an escape room, nor horror. You’re invited to a strangely empty hotel, and your goal is not to get out, but to get in. Almost all the doors are locked, and you must find the right key or code to open it. To help you with that, there are lots of things for you to inspect, letters, books, posters, strange writings on the walls, maps, and other things. Remember everything you see, therein lie the solutions to all riddles. Luckily, you don’t have to remember the actual words you see, since you have “perfect memory”, the ability to look at every relevant item you encountered, but you should remember that you saw “an invitation letter”, or “a book about locks”. After unlocking the first few doors, you start meeting the other inhabitants of the hotel: the strange host who invited you, the old woman with shining eyes in your bed, the dead girl, the magician from the past… From a simple “let’s unlock perfectly normal doors”, things take a turn for the surreal. Is this real, or are you hallucinating? Which year is it? What does it all mean? Who are you and what is your purpose in this game? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411197606 The riddles are very varied, from simple math problems, spotting the hidden meaning in letters, figuring out what the movie posters mean, and many others. An added level of difficulty comes from figuring out how to use a lock, from the simple number dial locks you get buttons in strange configurations, lights, clocks… And from having one clue right next to the door it opens, you have to figure out clues from one place helping you in another one, then back and forth. Figure out which document you’ve seen is relevant for solving the current problem, which item you’ve collected can fit in the object in front of you. Then the game goes beyond basic riddles and opening locks: mazes, memory and observation tests, in-game games you can play, figuring out which phone number to call, collecting and using objects in the right place, and other things to do that keep this game fresh for a long time. Although the game says you need some real-world knowledge, that isn’t true. There are puzzles involving roman numerals, for example, but you don’t really need to know how they work, there’s no roman numeral math to do, everything you need is contained in the game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411197532 The presentation is strange too, with a black and white (and red) theme that is both realistic and sketchy at the same time, sparse music and sounds, creepy before the creepy stuff starts showing up. It may be a bit too scary for children, but not really scary. At some point the puzzles do get deadly, though, so save often. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411198924 There are a few things that aren't very good though. First is that progress needs to be manually saved at computers you can find throughout the hotel, which aren't too far apart, but still would be nice to have some kind of autosave, or at least allow saving when having to quit the game without the need to find the nearest computer. Second, the controls use just one button (other than directional keys) for everything, so opening a map requires a lot of clicks, and then closing the map and going back to playing requires just as many clicks, since there is no close or back button, just X (close) items in menus. Combined with the fact that you have to go through each list item by item, and there are frequently more than 10 items, that means 20+ button pushes just to go and look at what year a movie was made. The directional keys aren't frictionless either, there is at least one in-game game that I found terrible to control, and in the regular world since the environment is 3D but with invisible walls, I would often snag a corner and stop moving. One other thing that I would change is that some parts can be deadly, one wrong answer and you have to go back to the last manual save, and there’s no undo or autosave right before you had to answer the question. But these are minor shortcomings of an otherwise excellent game. This has often been included in top 10 from 2024 lists, and rightfully so. It’s a great puzzle game full of interesting riddles, in a unique presentation, and with a story that’s strange but intriguing. One piece of advice, try to finish it in one go, since most of the game requires remembering what you saw and read. How hard is it: It starts easy, but gets very challenging. While many individual puzzles are trivial, completing the overall game and getting all the achievements is very hard. Although some basic math skills are required, there's also a lot of in-game help with descriptions of roman numerals, the greek alphabet, quasi-hints disguised as books. There are no real hints though, and no level skipping since there’s no actual levels, just a free roaming world. How long is it: A big hotel to explore plus many other virtual worlds, the total time depends on how good you are at solving riddles, but probably more than 20 hours. Puzzle design: Good. The puzzles are diverse, as well as the different activities you have to do. Personally I found that too many are too trivial. Quality: Good, but some design decisions lead to frustration. Great variety of things to do, good riddles. Unique presentation. A take on the escape room genre that stands out from the rest. Interesting story and atmosphere. Manual saving at specific locations required, unsaved progress will be lost. 1-button control scheme is both easy to use, and really frustrating when you need tens of button pushes just to open a document. Multiple save slots. A few settings. The game is very dark, with flashes of light, and wavering text, which isn’t very accessible. Cloud saving, very hard achievements. Worth the price: Yes. Most positive aspect for me: Good variety of things to do. Most negative aspect for me: Awkward menu navigation. What would make it better: Improved controls. Autosave. Improved accessibility settings. A hint system. Also consider: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20773/The_Room_Collection/]The Room Collection , great escape room/puzzle box games with a dark atmosphere and story. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41988/Myst__Riven_The_Definitive_Collection/]Myst and Riven , great puzzle games. For more puzzle game reviews, news and everything puzzle-related, follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25928931-Puzzle-Lovers/]Puzzle Lovers and check out our [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/puzzlelovers]Steam group . Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]IndieGems for more reviews like this one.
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I have slightly mixed feelings about this. I loved the game and the atmosphere. BUT I think I was expecting something else going in. The game is very intriguing and teases you in the beginning saying things like "you have to know some information about the outside world, such as roman numerals, greek alphabet, etc." This is a lie. Not only is this a lie, it will lead you to believe some puzzles are way more complex than they actually are. I've 100%-ed the game and I don't think there's a single puzzle that relies on you figuring something out using your external knowledge - in fact, it can be detrimental to try and do so. The game does have roman numerals and greek alphabet and hex numbers and more. But if you don't see a clear solution - it's very likely that you don't have enough information and you have to search for a clue somewhere else. And by a "clue" I mean "an straight up answer written down somewhere". I think I've spent at least 20 minutes at the Greek Door puzzle trying to come up with a way to solve it - but you can't solve it. You have to find a solution somewhere else. So my advice to you: if you can't figure out a puzzle - don't overcomplicate it, go the other way and try to think of the most straightforward solution you can think of. And if you still can't solve it - go explore some more. And do take notes! I have several pages of those and they look like scribbles of a madman, I love it. The name of the game here is "pattern recognition" and "having a big context window to remember what you saw and where". At least the first ~60-70% of the game is like that. However, as you get closer to the end the puzzles begin to ramp up in difficulty and become more convoluted. I really liked some of those and I loved the final one. The other sticking point are the controls. The game is intentionally very clunky: there are LOTS of padlocks with digit wheels that only rotate forward, you have to press 6-10 buttons to get to the map screen and to back out of a menu you have to scroll to the top of the list each time. And to back out of the puzzle you have to select the "confirm puzzle" button, press it and then watch how the puzzle fails to be solved. This has been brought up numerous times in reviews, community discussions, reddit posts and more. The devs clearly either don't care or think that this is "the proper way to do things". I disagreed, so I made a mod to fix this: https://github.com/graynk/LoreleiAndSaneControls. It's also not perfect, but at least it addresses the issues above and I've beaten the game with it. All in all, I still like the game. It's not perfect by any means, but it scratched my puzzle itch and it was stylish and intriguing enough to keep me hooked. Plus it gave me a good excuse to learn Unity modding!
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It's like if David Lynch made a puzzle game that is structured like Resident Evil, but without the zombies. The puzzles are really well designed. Pen and paper is basically required and is one of the reasons it's so good.
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This game is exceptional; it grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. Imagine a game with the map layout of Resident Evil 1, the puzzle focus of a Professor Layton game, and a spooky/surreal/self-referential tone that brushes up against Alan Wake 2, and you're like 90% of the way there. The entire thing is a meticulously-crafted puzzle box containing a very well-paced mystery. I have a few minor gripes about some of the puzzles in the endgame; their fiddliness hurts the flow of the climax and interrupts the pacing a bit. But overall, strong recommendation for anyone who likes puzzle games and mysteries.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is currently priced at 22.99€ on Steam.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 22.99€ on Steam.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes received 2,151 positive votes out of a total of 2,271 achieving an impressive rating of 9.03.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes was developed by Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is not playable on MacOS.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is not playable on Linux.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a single-player game.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes does not support Steam Remote Play.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Simogo
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Annapurna Interactive
Release
16 May 2024
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