
If you want to uncover the mysteries surrounding the Penrose Hotel, then you can download The Spectrum Retreat when it's released on the Switch on September 13th for £9.99/$12.99. And it's especially admirable that Ripstone would be willing to take a shot at helping a young dev kick-start their career. It's great to see such young person displaying a lot of talent and that leading to good things. Smith's game was picked up Ripstone Games, who helped him fully realise his vision and release it this past July. The game also comes from humble circumstances, initially being a prototype from Dan Smith who was only 18 when it won a BAFTA in the Young Game Designers Award in 2016. There is a real sense of style in the hotel's design and it looks like everything I want and expect from a dystopian sci-fi hellscape. As a valued guest, your existence is embedded into the corridors and. You awake at The Penrose hotel, a peaceful yet unsettling refuge from the outside world. Like in Portal you enter a room, solve the puzzle, and move on to the next.Īesthetically, the game is a cool fusion of art-deco and near future sci-fi. The Spectrum Retreat is a challenging, first-person puzzle game set in the near future.


To solve this mystery, you have to complete increasingly complex colour-coded puzzles. You seem to have always been at this hotel and have to find out why. The Spectrum Retreat is a challenging, first-person puzzle game set in the near future. You play as a guest at the lavish Penrose Hotel, but things are not quite right.
