The Spectrum Retreat
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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.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
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 despite the only relevant choice being at the very very end. 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.
Steam User 0
This is a pretty difficult game to beat, tbh. I don't know the people who says it is "easy" -- are you trolling or something? This is not easy, it requires high IQ to make it fast.
Personally, I take +22% than the average to beat.
Steam User 0
Very good puzzle game. I was recommended to me by ChatGPT when I asked for games like Portal or Talos. I was not disappointed. Good puzzles and moving story. Only thing that I would add is more puzzles. Definitely recommended if you like puzzle games.
Steam User 0
It's not hard to figure out the basics of what to do, however, knowing what to do and completing each level are two different things. It takes a shift in thinking as the levels get more complicated. It kept my interest though due to the puzzles, even though the story behind is forever not going anywhere. Hopefully all will be revealed later.
Steam User 0
5/10
Lots of filler between puzzles, the story was alright for such a short game. There are a surprising amount of soft-locks in the game so expect to go through some levels a few times from scratch (especially the last level which is multiple puzzles stuck together).
Steam User 0
Love the design and atmosphere. Exactly what I'm looking for in a first-person puzzle/mystery.
Steam User 0
This is a good puzzle game.