Mirrors of Epiphany
Sigmund Hoien · 2025 · Casual, Puzzle, Logic, Minimalist, Relaxing
PC
5 user reviews100% · 5
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About Mirrors of Epiphany
Mirrors of Epiphany is a puzzle game where you guide light beams to their designated goals by placing mirrors on a board.
Light sources and detectors (paired up by colours) are placed around an empty board. The challenge is to place mirrors in positions and orientations so that each source and detector pair is connected.
Portals are very cool! And for sure, portals have been used in many fascinating and clever ways in a lot of puzzle games. But they don't have to be a part of "every" puzzle game. Sometimes less is more, so Mirrors of Epiphany contains exactly zero portals. In fact it doesn't contain colour splitters, blockers or any other peculiar stuff either. There's just mirrors; two-sided mirrors behaving perfectly normal, redirecting light beams as in well-known, classic physics. But beware; you cannot always place the mirrors exactly as you would like to...
There are 100 unique puzzles, ranging from the simplest possible to larger boards with multiple pairs of light sources and detectors.
Most puzzles have a lot of workable solutions, but each puzzle has only one optimal solution (i.e. using as few mirrors as possible). Explore and play around to find solutions that just get the job done, or satisfy your puzzle solving instincts by reaching for perfection.
You can place mirrors, change their orientations, and remove them again as many times as you like. The number of moves are not counted. The only scoring measure is the number of mirrors placed on the board when all pairs of light sources and detectors are connected.
The automatic progress saving keeps track of all mirrors placed on every visited puzzle board. That means you can leave a clever and promising solution halfway, and then come back to finish it later. Or if you return to a previously solved puzzle, the mirror setup you used is still there waiting for you, to be optimized or admired.
There are no time limits. You can enjoy solving all the puzzles at your own pace.
Core gameplay
Light sources and detectors (paired up by colours) are placed around an empty board. The challenge is to place mirrors in positions and orientations so that each source and detector pair is connected.
No portals!
Portals are very cool! And for sure, portals have been used in many fascinating and clever ways in a lot of puzzle games. But they don't have to be a part of "every" puzzle game. Sometimes less is more, so Mirrors of Epiphany contains exactly zero portals. In fact it doesn't contain colour splitters, blockers or any other peculiar stuff either. There's just mirrors; two-sided mirrors behaving perfectly normal, redirecting light beams as in well-known, classic physics. But beware; you cannot always place the mirrors exactly as you would like to...
Rich in content
There are 100 unique puzzles, ranging from the simplest possible to larger boards with multiple pairs of light sources and detectors.
Choose your own challenge level
Most puzzles have a lot of workable solutions, but each puzzle has only one optimal solution (i.e. using as few mirrors as possible). Explore and play around to find solutions that just get the job done, or satisfy your puzzle solving instincts by reaching for perfection.
Unlimited number of moves
You can place mirrors, change their orientations, and remove them again as many times as you like. The number of moves are not counted. The only scoring measure is the number of mirrors placed on the board when all pairs of light sources and detectors are connected.
Extensive progress saving
The automatic progress saving keeps track of all mirrors placed on every visited puzzle board. That means you can leave a clever and promising solution halfway, and then come back to finish it later. Or if you return to a previously solved puzzle, the mirror setup you used is still there waiting for you, to be optimized or admired.
Relaxing
There are no time limits. You can enjoy solving all the puzzles at your own pace.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Extremely low tech (production value? what production value?), but pretty decent level design.1 found this helpful
good1 found this helpful
This is really a fun rewarding game. Teaches some good lessons about problem solving approaches.1 found this helpful
[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 6.5/10[/url]. A fairly spartan laser-and-mirrors puzzle game with a casual difficulty level. You’ve almost certainly seen something like this before. Mirrors can be pointed in one of two directions and laser light must be guided to a specific destination. The only elaboration is that some grid positions are blocked from having a mirror, or only allow a single orientation. Every level has two goals: getting the laser light to its required destination, and (optionally) doing so with the minimum number of mirrors. The first goal is fairly easy even all the way to the last level, though not trivial. Usually you just make all of the obvious reflections, and then see how this breaks down and make a few more tweaks to get the desired result. 1-3 minutes per puzzle is typical. Achieving the minimum number of mirrors is a good bit harder, but feels overly fiddly to me and is not motivating enough to be worth achieving consistently. Meanwhile the game’s presentation is the absolute minimum for a playable game. You can judge this for yourself from the screenshots, but know that also the audio is equally bare-…1 found this helpful
great game, finding the optimal solution for every level takes a bit of time, but still fun
This is at least refreshing and new
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