Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a puzzle-mystery from Swedish studio Simogo (Sayonara Wild Hearts, Year Walk, Device 6). A woman is summoned by an eccentric man to a remote baroque manor in Central Europe — possibly a hotel, possibly a museum — to take part in a project that grows increasingly surreal and dangerous.

The game is non-linear: you explore the manor freely, and a dense network of handcrafted puzzles unfolds in whatever order you uncover them. Each riddle solved opens new rooms, documents, or memories, and the path through the central mystery is yours to assemble.

The visual style is austere — predominantly black and white, with occasional bursts of red — and the soundtrack is sparse and unnerving. Tonally it shares more with European arthouse cinema than with most adventure games.

The team has explicitly designed the puzzles to be solvable but unguided; expect to keep a notebook open beside the screen.