The Spectrum Retreat

Now you are thinking with colours

It is a decent enough first person puzzler to recommend playing, even though I have some nitpicks to its structure. Due to the nature of the puzzle elements, it is very easy to 'brick' yourself inside a puzzle without any indication, having to restart the whole puzzle. It's usually not a big deal, as the puzzles are pretty short, but the last puzzle of the game spans a few pretty big rooms with no checkpoints, so if you mess up with a puzzle piece, get stuck in the jumping physics or accidentally walk off the edge due to the floaty walking physics, you have to restart the whole thing again. Redoing what you just did is not a very satisfying experience. The endings kinda follow the same pattern - you have to redo the whole game over again to see the other ending and get the achievement for them [spoiler]despite the only relevant choice being at the very very end.[/spoiler] Yeah you can speedrun the game in about an hour when you know the puzzle solutions, but still, kind of annoying that you have to do that instead of just loading a checkpoint (the game deletes your save file after completion). Still, the puzzles are novel enough and the story, while pretty predictable and not very innovative, was interesting to follow. If you like first person puzzlers, you will enjoy this game.

Jeu d'enigme basé sur des boucles de gameplay simple mais rigoureuses. Une erreur et vous devrez recommencer l'épreuve en entier. L'histoire est passable mais impossible pour moi de m'attacher au héro. A petit prix, je recommande en tout cas.

First-person puzzler with great storytelling. The puzzles are the right level of challenging and are satisfying to complete. Only takes about 4 and a half hours to play through. Too short for full price but well worth it when you find it on sale for 70% off.

What an OVERRATED puzzle game. Possibly the worst I've ever seen. NEVER pay full price. Fortunately I got a key for just 2 bucks (and I still feel like I overpaid) After completing 8 rooms there's barely any progression in complexity and puzzle elements and it's BORING. The story is not interesting and the voice of the guide is extremely annoying. She thinks the more you hear her make different noises the better she performs, so she's huffing and puffing and moaning with a heavy brit accent. Hell no. Using the mouse to look feels TERRIBLE. How do you move mouse movement so rough? The game runs at stable 165hz and walking is smooth, but camera movement using the mouse feels like 20 fps. My eyes hurt. No detailed graphics settings. No anti aliasing, no anisotropic filtering, no screen modes, no vsync control.

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It is nice. Nothing extra. The story is not too much, as you can hear voices but can't interact. The puzzles are mostly finding the proper sequence type. I can't recommend it truly, only if you like the slow burn, try-and-fail type of puzzle solving.

Fine little puzzler, I liked it overall. But the women in your ear starts giving guidance on where to go way too soon and frequently. Lemme look around, relax! Also the last puzzle room was a little annoying because there were no saves inbetween so if you make a silly mistake (or dont notice that's an abyss and DIE) you gotta restart it :') Overall nice tho, and the story was solid too. One room with the hospital bed was... upsetting. Turned the sound off while i was in there :')

Another chamber-based physics puzzler. Which is fine as I love this style of game. The puzzles are good although, by the end I felt that the game mechanic had been stretched to its limit. And the story that builds through the game was intriguing. However, the story-based, walking-sim activities and the chamber-based puzzle activities, didn't really go together. But all-in-all I enjoyed it; it's not in the Portal or Talos league, but it's a solid 7/10.

nice puzzles and a really well told story