The Spectrum Retreat
Dan Smith Studios · 2018 · Puzzle, First-Person, Adventure, Indie, Strategy
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 22468Metacritic
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About The Spectrum Retreat
Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.
The Spectrum Retreat is a challenging, first-person puzzle game set in the near future. You awake at The Penrose hotel, a peaceful yet unsettling refuge from the outside world. As a valued guest, your existence is embedded into the corridors and guest rooms of The Penrose.
Exploration of the striking art-deco hotel will begin to uncover the mysteries of both The Penrose and the uncertainties surrounding your current stay. Your desire to unearth the truth is obstructed by an array of colour coded puzzles, mind-bending physics challenges and the growing fear of exposing your true intentions.
The Spectrum Retreat is a challenging, first-person puzzle game set in the near future. You awake at The Penrose hotel, a peaceful yet unsettling refuge from the outside world. As a valued guest, your existence is embedded into the corridors and guest rooms of The Penrose.
Exploration of the striking art-deco hotel will begin to uncover the mysteries of both The Penrose and the uncertainties surrounding your current stay. Your desire to unearth the truth is obstructed by an array of colour coded puzzles, mind-bending physics challenges and the growing fear of exposing your true intentions.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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.1 found this helpful
I wish there were more ways to adjust the graphic settings, because even though I wanted to try this game the graphics gave me a huge headache.
This game has one of the best narratives of a puzzle game I have ever seen. Every level guarantees new lore and new mechanics to be had. For it being an almost 8 year old game (at the time of this review), it is an underrated gem of a game.
You can do the entire 5th floor puzzle and waste all your time if you accidentally do it backwards, locking you in a room. This game overstays its welcome by a longshot. Maybe get it if you can get it for 90% of more of a discount because otherwise this game just is NOT worth it, and jesus, what a slog to get through near the end. I don't even want to finish the game due to being hard-stuck now and having to restart the level if I want to finish. Edited to say: ♥♥♥♥ this game and its lack of compassion for your time. I unlocked the last level and storyline completion with SAM. This does not deserve to be bought.
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 :')
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