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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.
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60 reviews found90
TheXboxHub
Jul 10, 2018
The Spectrum Retreat comes across as a great success from a special talent – one who has provided a fun, rewarding puzzling narrative game that sticks with you. The location and design are superb and it all comes in at about the right price for a game of this size.
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GamePitt
Jul 8, 2018
The Spectrum Retreat is a challenging, first-person puzzle game set within the near future. As you awake and being to explore the Penrose hotel, you will begin to unlock your memories through the various colour-based logic puzzles and various interactions you have with the mysterious Cooper. You must solve each of these ingenious puzzles as you uncover the truth behind why you are in such a place and who is behind your imprisonment. The Spectrum Retreat has AAA quality voice acting, an amazing soundtrack and the perfect amount of mind-bending and thought-provoking puzzles all contained within a single package. For me, this is the new Talos Principle/The Witness, it’s my favourite puzzle game of the year on the PS4 and it sets a new standard for smaller indie puzzle titles as it raises the bar considerably. The Spectrum Retreat£9.99 The Good: - - Very interesting setting and story, if you decide to uncover the various data-cubes and read up on what's happening/happened - - The soundtrack is amazing - - The voice acting is on-par with a AAA game - - The puzzles are all well thoughout out and satisfying to conquer - - The game scales in difficulty perfectly, introducing new mechanics and hazards to increase the difficulty gradually. The Bad: - - Cooper needs to tone it down a little, she gives you too many hints and doesn't let you figure things out on your own - - The walk speed within the hotel is a little slow in my opinion - - I noticed a few graphical glitches with the lighting - not game breaking but I did report them to the publisher - - You have to play the game in its entirety twice in order to get the last trophy but there is no extended or secret ending for doing so, just a standard second ending.
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FingerGuns
Jul 8, 2018
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Jump Dash Roll
Jul 8, 2018
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Nindie Spotlight
Sep 15, 2018
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PS4Blog.net
Aug 16, 2018
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85
PlaySense
Jul 15, 2018
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NintendoWorldReport
Sep 13, 2018
A few tweaks here and there, would assist in the overall experience, but all in all I recommend checking into The Penrose for a few puzzling nights.
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The Games Machine
Jul 9, 2018
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VGProfessional
Aug 19, 2018
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