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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
74 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Incredible atmosphere. Genuinely one of the coolest vibes in any game I've played. Puzzles are very brain-teaser coded, the kind where each room is a self contained thing and you have to identify patterns to get codes.…”
“probably my new favorite video game of all time. a good balance of really easy to figure out puzzles and incredibly complex multi-step puzzles, ranging from literal math to riddles and perspective pieces. 10/10 would…”
“Yo dawg, I heard you like puzzles. So I put some puzzles inside your puzzles to go with your puzzles. Yeah, this game is puzzle crazy. My first thought was this game plays like a classic Resident Evil game but without…”
37 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Lorelei is a great piece of art, but a frustrating puzzle game. At its high points, the noir style was slick, I shouted "Eureka!" when solving puzzles and it felt like there was a much deeper meaning that I was chasing.…”
“Incredible atmosphere. Genuinely one of the coolest vibes in any game I've played. Puzzles are very brain-teaser coded, the kind where each room is a self contained thing and you have to identify patterns to get codes.…”
“Yo dawg, I heard you like puzzles. So I put some puzzles inside your puzzles to go with your puzzles. Yeah, this game is puzzle crazy. My first thought was this game plays like a classic Resident Evil game but without…”
27 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pros: -One of the more challenging puzzle adventure games I've played, with some thrilling moments of insight: almost needing a walkthrough and then figuring something out at the last moment. -A vast nonlinear world of…”
“A stylish mystery that really got its hooks into me. The world of Hotel Letztes Jahr is quite interesting in how it manages to cohere enough as an explorable space and repository of information, without ever truly…”
17 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“probably my new favorite video game of all time. a good balance of really easy to figure out puzzles and incredibly complex multi-step puzzles, ranging from literal math to riddles and perspective pieces. 10/10 would…”
“[i]My word[/i], what a game. It had been on my list of games I’ve desperately wanted to play since release, but always kept putting it off as I worried I’d be too dumb for the puzzles. And believe me, did feel exactly…”
“[b]⭐️ 8.75/10 ⭐️[/b] This may have been the hardest puzzle game I've played to date. That's not because the puzzles were poorly written or unfair, quite the opposite actually. There's a clear intense love for games by…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Yo dawg, I heard you like puzzles. So I put some puzzles inside your puzzles to go with your puzzles. Yeah, this game is puzzle crazy. My first thought was this game plays like a classic Resident Evil game but without…”
“[h2]A [i]wonderful[/i] piece of interactive art! 9.5/10[/h2] I can't fault this much at all. Its dripping in its own distinct style, it's puzzles are all solvable without stupid logic or genius level IQs, the music is…”
“this game was a solid experience froms tart to finish: the atmosphere is well crafted, the plot is captivating and well sewn into the game progress, and the music was unexpectedly not a background prop but an integral…”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Lorelei is a great piece of art, but a frustrating puzzle game. At its high points, the noir style was slick, I shouted "Eureka!" when solving puzzles and it felt like there was a much deeper meaning that I was chasing.…”
“What I liked: - DA is amazing - some spooky atmosphere, culminating in death if you try to bruteforce the game - documents are autosaved in your ingame memory without the need to printscreen yourself everything What I…”
“In a word pretentious, in another tedious. This game has intentionally poor UI that causes endless tedious menu navigation, no back button, no ability to exit puzzles without inputting a solution, gameplay segments with…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“In a word pretentious, in another tedious. This game has intentionally poor UI that causes endless tedious menu navigation, no back button, no ability to exit puzzles without inputting a solution, gameplay segments with…”
“Really disappointing experience, dont get at all the fuzz with the game. Controls are horrendous. Story feels more like "I am 15 and this is deep". You could not care less about the characters and you see the story…”
“If SUDA51 made a puzzle game but got pulled off the team near the end and someone else came in to make the story actually make sense and do their best to salvage the gameplay, Lorelei is what you would get. Visually…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“What I liked: - DA is amazing - some spooky atmosphere, culminating in death if you try to bruteforce the game - documents are autosaved in your ingame memory without the need to printscreen yourself everything What I…”
“In a word pretentious, in another tedious. This game has intentionally poor UI that causes endless tedious menu navigation, no back button, no ability to exit puzzles without inputting a solution, gameplay segments with…”
“Really disappointing experience, dont get at all the fuzz with the game. Controls are horrendous. Story feels more like "I am 15 and this is deep". You could not care less about the characters and you see the story…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Lorelei is a great piece of art, but a frustrating puzzle game. At its high points, the noir style was slick, I shouted "Eureka!" when solving puzzles and it felt like there was a much deeper meaning that I was chasing.…”
“What I liked: - DA is amazing - some spooky atmosphere, culminating in death if you try to bruteforce the game - documents are autosaved in your ingame memory without the need to printscreen yourself everything What I…”
“Very intricate puzzle box with a unique presentation and great atmosphere. Can be overwhelming at the beginning with the pile of unsolved puzzles that quickly accumulates, but once the pieces start to click together it…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Lorelei is a great piece of art, but a frustrating puzzle game. At its high points, the noir style was slick, I shouted "Eureka!" when solving puzzles and it felt like there was a much deeper meaning that I was chasing.…”
“What I liked: - DA is amazing - some spooky atmosphere, culminating in death if you try to bruteforce the game - documents are autosaved in your ingame memory without the need to printscreen yourself everything What I…”
“probably my new favorite video game of all time. a good balance of really easy to figure out puzzles and incredibly complex multi-step puzzles, ranging from literal math to riddles and perspective pieces. 10/10 would…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“You know who really deserves a puzzle game? Librarians. So I’m glad Loreli and the Laser Eyes came thru with its document and math based puzzles. Do you like solving math riddles and combing thru a binder of documents to answer a question? Because if you do then about 70% of…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“[i]There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia A white house in a red square…[/i] (The Sisters of Mercy – Dominion / Mother Russia) If ever there was a puzzle game that deserves the label [i]Lynchian[/i], this is pretty much it. A game that is simply art, that doesn’t want nor…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“my mother, who is not anything of a gamer, loved playing this game so much that she would wait until i woke up and would text me to ask if i wanted to start playing. the puzzles in this game are so incredibly well done, i don't know if any other puzzle games top it. it's just so…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Annapurna Interactive Puzzle Bundle
Hello Lorelei and the Laser Eyes players! Today we're launching the Annapurna Interactive Puzzle Bundle, featuring four acclaimed, puzzle-centric games we've published. The games are... https://store.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Releases May 16th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abx4_UzW-uc https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008920/Lorelei_and_the_Laser_Eyes/ A woman, summoned by an eccentric man to participate in a project in an old hotel som
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Puzzle · Action · Exploration · Action-Adventure · Horror · Mystery · Stylized · Indie · 3D · Psychological · Dark Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Official site | https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/lorelei-and-the-laser-eyes |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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.