Lilly Looking Through

The art used for the game is really nice. It's nice to look at and works well with the calm vibes and music it offers. The concept is pretty cool, too.

The puzzles are simple and easy to figure out once you understand it.

I don't know if it's worth the price though...

I'd give it it a 7/10

This is cute. It starts and ends quite abruptly and some puzzles are not to be solved by logic but trial and error which makes gameplay a bit tedious at times. Anyhow, it's a magical little game, with a cute story that doesn't really need words, a truely magical surrounding aaaand - time travel, tadaa! I like the style and I would like a second part of it, I mean, the end was not really THE end, was ist?

Though it has a nice art style to it and inventive puzzles. The drawn out animations and none ending keep me from recommending this game.

Running Windows 10 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.00 GHz 16GB RAM
And the game is unplayable for me. Extremely slow and choppy with "no response" Windows errors popping up constantly.
Searched the games discussions and did some troubleshooting steps but gave up after awhile.
Fair warning, perhaps it'll work for some but it isn't for me. Maybe if i'm smart enough to figure out a working solution i'll update this.

I don't know why I waited so long before playing this game. Even if the game itself, the puzzles, the story are great, it's still too easy to solve and too short to play. Not to mention the ending... is it really the end? Not sure to have a part 2 now as the game was released in 2013. How disappointing...

I bought this for my 9 year old niece to play. There have been several parts I have had to come and help her with, but she has been doing it mostly on her own.
Cute visuals, and a simplistic style that makes her think more than most of her games or toys.

Very much recommended for bringing new players into the genre

I loved this game all the way to the last section... and then was very disappointed. When a game is so well paced, the puzzles fun and well thought out throughout, to then give you an "oops, now we are done!" ending is incredibly disheartening.

This game is beautiful, interesting, and fun for 99% of the playtime- but the final 1% makes you wonder why bother, there is no pay off. So, if you are a "it's not the destination but the traveling" kinda person, have fun. If you like to have an actual ending to a game that tantalizes you with all kinds of intriguing bits of possible story lines, get ready to be let down.

Still recommend it, but know you will be left feeling unfulfilled.

A very sweet little game with some interesting puzzles and really gorgeus visuals. It has a simple story; Lilly encounters an odd scarf-looking piece of cloth, which springs to life and takes her brother away. With the help of her glasses, which teleports her to another time when she wears them, she has to follow the scarf and save her brother. It's concise, never wastes your time and unlike some other adventure games, all the puzzles actually make some sense. It's a really good example of how to make a game short and sweet, and actually use that to the game's advantage by keeping only the really good elements, with no need to "fill" with unnecessary content. This makes for a slim and very well executed game overall, with a good interaction between premise, drive and pacing.

However, as many other reviews have said, the ending is quite abrupt. I think we get enough information to imagine what happens next, but it is quite a cliffhanger. This might put some people off, but in my opinion the journey is good enough to make it worth it in the end. Well worth the buy.

The game is very cute, and relaxing. I like the style, but there are two things that make me not recommend this game.

a) The ending is very abrupt, and is not an ending. It's like an episodic game, but there is no second episode. The story is not complete, and ends with a giant cliffhanger.

b) The puzzle mechanics involve unskippable cutscenes that can be at times very tedious. Three to five second animations between every step make trial-and-error guessing of what you're supposed to do very exhausting

First off, know that this game ends without a real resolution, and there's almost complete silence from the developers about creating a sequel.

Beyond that, I originally bought Lilly Looking Through for the same reason I buy a lot of adventure games: compelling artwork and interesting characters. While Lilly delivers on that score, there's some pretty heavy issues beyond that.

If you're looking for a lot of narrative, this is not what you're looking for.
If you're looking for a lot of character development, same deal.
If you're looking for a lot of the conveniences of modern adventure games, look elsewhere.

Lilly Looking Through presents almost each screen as a puzzle box that needs to be solved in order to move on to the next screen. It's very rigid in this fashion. The thing is, that's the entire game. I'd be fine with that, accepting the game for being more limited than expected, except for that fact that it makes this process of trial and error very cumbersome.

Lilly's movement involve long, languide animations. Lilly is slow, as you'd expect a child dealing with these devices to be. But when you're dealing with a ton of repetition, trial and error, and experimentation, these unskippable animations become a bit of a nightmare. There are adventure games from 20 years ago that let you skip cinematics and animations that you've already viewed, so there's not really a good argument for its absence here, unless the creators just hated the idea of you not caring.

And the saves only occur at the beginning of each screen, something I discovered on accident when I quit the game. It's just another thing hurting ease of use.

Lilly is one of those failed adventure games where watching a Let's Play on Youtube would be preferrable to playing it.

This review takes into account that i bought this game under full knowledge that it's a very short game. Also, it was on sale.

Lilly Looking Through is a classic Point and Click adventure game with very classic puzzles (do things in right order, color puzzles, ...). I guess that's why i had trouble on a few on them.
Very early on you acquire an item that lets you "switch between worlds". This mechanic is well integrated into the puzzles. The music is very serene and the animations are cute. Sadly it doesn't scale all that well to higher resolutions (i'm using a 1440p monitor).

My other gripes about the game are the very long, non-abortable/interruptable animations. You often need to click on the same objects a lot in a row to solve some of the puzzles and the animations - while cute - can last quite a long time. This sadly got me frustrated quite a bit.
Also, it's not clear what the game wants you to do sometimes in order to progress. You clearly have things to click on, but to what end? You almost always find that out after the fact.

Otherwise it's a quite enjoyable, short little puzzler!

Spoiler? About the ending:
The ending is quite open and kinda hints at a sequel.

After playing the demo, there was a big need to buy the game! I can't leave Lilly without his little brother. p.s. I looooovvvve the goggles idea :)

Though very short (expect between one and two hours of gameplay), this is an adorable game. Gorgeous designs and animations, cute story and protagonists, this is a good variation on the point&click genre.

However, the last two puzzles became tedious as they gained in complexity: unclear and requiring more trial and error to get clues than real understanding of the logic. Still, nothing too bad for an otherwise good little game.

"Took longer to get the cards than to finish the game. "

That basically puts the game in perspective. It was a fun game with nice interaction but it was incredibly short for $10. I finished it in 2 hours and I don't consider myself particularly gifted at puzzles. Two hours for $10 is rediculous no matter how much fun with NO replay value.

The storyline is non-existant and does not even 'end' when you finish it, making me believe there was a second chapter or something (which I believe there is not).

There are no side quests, no mini puzzles, no achievements. These are basics for a game for its value. I recommend getting it in a bundle or when its < $5.

It's cute but the ending and gameplay fall very short of my expectations, if it's cheap it's an ok time waster but don't pay full price. The puzzles are hard per se just not well explained, I spemt a lot of time just randomly clicking during the color changing ones with no clue what I was doing. There is practacally no plot and game is unfinished in my opinion, maybe there wil be a patch so we can get some closure. It really is sad because I feel the idea of mini time travel is great but wasn't really used much a little under half the game(which isn't long) you don't have use of the goggles. It had so much potential.

A delightful puzzle adventure, Lilly is a good mix of logic puzzles, soothing music and wonderful animation. Lilly's journey to save her brother reveals her to be resourceful and determined. The color themed puzzles require a bit more than the standard "combine this item and that one to move on" problems of this genre. The game's one drawback is its length - it ends long before you're ready to leave Lilly's world. Hopefully, this means there's a sequel or DLC in the works to expand the story further.

It's cute, it's fun, it's utterly wonderful.

If you grew up with games like Simon the Sorcerer, Monkey Island, Discworld and all the other myriad pointy clicky games I can't even remember the titles of, then this is for you.

Even if you didn't (How young you are!), this game is amazing. The visuals are absolutely gorgeous, the animations smooth (as long as your pc runs it) and the atmosphere is almost perfect. I haven't played a game that's captivated me through its beauty like this for a long time.

In short: Buy this game. And then play it through.

Irresistibly charming and magical adventure prime brave girl in the world beyond time and space, the classic quest, not inferior to the masterpieces of world animation.

This is a beautifully atmospheric game. It is best taken at a slow and relaxed pace. The art is fantastic and the gameplay mechanics suit perfectly. I enjoyed this game from start to finish.

Lilly Looking through is about the tale of a brother and a sister. You don't know where they are from, where they are, or why the world is like what it is. Some may consider this lazyness, but I however, find that this actually helps emphasis the characters themselves. They're sweet and charming. Throughout the game the single minded child like nature of the characters is evident and enhanced by the simplicity of the environments of the world.

Even though the art style is simple and beautiful the puzzles this game present can be quite cunning. Given the short length of the game the difficulty curve is quite steep. However, the basic premise of most of the puzzles makes solving them challenging, but never threatening. It doesn't aim to increase the difficulty by providing lots of places to click, or by confusing you.

My one warning with this game is that you cannot rush it. You must not rush it. To fully enjoy it you must be willing to enjoy the art, ask yourself what has happened and why. This game rewards freedom of imagination. If you want a game which fully explains itself this is not the game for you. However, if you are willing to let a game absorb you, if you are willing to let your imagination be free then this game becomes an experience full of joy and emotion.

A point and click adventure that has ups and downs. The story and artistic style are charming and cute. The puzzles are not that hard to figure out but are pretty tedious to complete. A lot of guess work and going back and forth between switches. The game is also a bit to short for my likings. Normal price might not be fully worth it but its worth a go when its on sale.

Note: Appearantly a GTX580 is not a good card to play this game. You can play it in special software/hardware modes but the game runs real slow at points and/or lacks high graphics.

+A very children-friendly "point and click"-adventure with colorful levels.
+Unlike to another "p'n'p"-game,
where in real time you have to do sometimes strange things ("Deponia"), the puzzles make sense.
+The feature of moustly puzzles is to using GOGLES to switch between the present and the past.
By manipulating with objects from the past (repeatedly), to open the path
that leads to the "kidnapped by scarf" friend.
*Try the demo, worth.
*I have support this on Greenlight & it's my 5th game from GL.
*I'm little sad, because there aren't have achievement,
so I actually stoped, and finish at another time.

Short and relatively charming adventure in the vein of Samorost and Botanicula. No inventory management, no verbs, no dialogue, just clicking hotspots on the screen in the right order. Nice animation and graphics, soothing music and the puzzles occasionally provide a challenge. Sadly the challenge is more about trying to figure out what you should be doing than actually solving the problem itself - the age-old Myst™ curse. You find yourself spending lots of time flipping colored switches with no concept of what you're supposed to accomplish.

The story doesn't really make much sense or seem to be going anywhere. When it finally does the game just abruptly ends, and the said anticlimax just seems to underline the already short length of the game. If you've already played all Amanita Design games and still want more, then and only then consider Lilly Looking Through. Lilly doesn't quite fall in the same league, but is pleasant enough to waste a couple of hours with.