The House of Da Vinci

very interesting game with a great layout and decent puzzles to try to solve. I can see why it was rated so high as it is a bit tricky with some of the puzzles. I just have one minor issue is that the puzzle clues don't always show up right away but might just be mine

Overall i liked the game good puzzles and story. Very atmospheric with nice music , one of the only thinks i hated is the way you move it took forever to get from a to b and you had to click a bunch of time to get where you wanted to stand.

Very nice puzzle game with great story-telling and atmosphere

The House of Da Vinci is an enjoyable interactive puzzle game with interesting contraptions and nice visuals.

Okay, so I just finished this mind-boggling game, and it was amazing!
I love puzzles, and this was a really good one.
Even though there were some levels (or chapters) I liked less, overall it was a really fun game—really interesting, with some elaborate puzzles and just an overall fun time.
I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves puzzle games.

Those of you who miss super difficult brain teaser puzzle games from the 1990s like Myst, and Riven and other games in the series will particularly appreciate the intricate brain teasers in this game. The game is at times easy to figure out, and other times incredibly difficult with those 1990s sensibilities. It is not just about solving puzzles of differing levels of difficulty, but also very very carefully observing the environment around the puzzles with a very careful eye, looking for things that look out of place such as scuff marks or which could be a hidden mechanism or similar. I played through the game with the hint system disabled, and managed to figure it out in 8:05:46 of gameplay without guides etc. I can say that if you're like me and appreciate a difficult challenge, this game has some real brain crushing puzzles to solve within it that really make you think. Not for those looking for easy times for sure! Although the game does have a hint system for people looking for more casual experience I suppose, but I didn't use it so I'm not sure how much that might help.

All in all it was a very enjoyable game and I am looking forward to playing the sequels some time in the future.

I normally love these types of games but this one left a bad taste in my mouth. I often found myself not understanding the logic behind the puzzles, and finding the whole process more tedious. I realized I wasn't having fun and didn't see the point in finishing it.

As much as I love the riddles, the control is just terrible and robs me every ounce of joy.

Since you cant pick in the middle of yes and no I will pick no more sadly but don't get me wrong was still a fun game just had it's hiccups that made it a little unbearable at times .

The puzzles themselves really make you think and some for a good while but the issue I had was it did not matter if I put the item in the correct place it never always registered correctly either a tiny bit off which really annoyed me . I would use guilds for help and they would place it correct and with ease .

The clues HUH !!! some of them just was not helpful at all and left you more confused than you was to start with

The movement cut scenes to sections of each puzzle just make quick and shift as the puzzle going up and down those stairs became tedious

After completing a room that took me an hour and several hints to complete, my response to the solution shouldn't be "...what was the point of that?"

Movement cut scenes are Far too long, answers to the puzzles can either be hidden under a table you never thought to check, hidden in the dark, or are so infuriatingly trial and error it'd take you several days just to want to slog through it.

I can tell a lot of love went into this game! And I'm curious enough to purchase the latest in the series to see how the devs have improved. Though if you want a puzzle game series that'll scratch the itch that this one *doesn't* quite reach, just play The Room.

Just play The Room instead, this is clearly trying to follow in the footsteps of that but often falls short and many puzzle solutions feel unintuitive.

In the olden days, we criticized point and click adventure games for requiring pixel hunts. This game often commits the same sin by obscuring and confusing what can and can't be interacted with. I understand figuring that out is supposed to be part of the fun, and it often is, but it also becomes really frustrating when the design logic is inconsistent: sometimes the cursor changes to indicate an interaction is possible, but not always; sometimes there are visual hints to invite closer examination of a small detail and sometimes not; sometimes the game camera (which is mostly on rails) frames the thing you want to look at, sometimes it resists your efforts to look around. Every time I've been stuck, I was misled by one of these inconsistencies and the only useful lesson I learned is "double click on everything all the time," which is tedious and uninteresting.

Everything else is fine and only fine. If you enjoy this genre then get it on sale and accept that you'll need to consult a guide or be willing to click (double-click!) on every inch of the game.

Me and my girlfriend are currently using our collective brain cells to complete this game and it has been a real bonding experience for us we recommend this game 11/10.

Good puzzle room game, but it becomes real hard at times, where instinct stops working, hints become useless, and only a Youtube video can save you. Looking forward to the sequel!

If you came for something to fill the hole that "The Room" left - you aint getting it here. You will have a decent time if you bought it discounted and lower your expectations a little. Not by much but there are certain gripes that made me actually not finish the game at all.
Puzzles are not hard but kind of random illogical - once or twice there seems no rhyme or reason for you to do what you have to do it just feels weirdly disconnected. The game tells you to use your observational skills but some things like white scratch marks underneath a rivet on a chest are, where there are several rivets all over and the basic object being used differently entirely, just doesnt feel great to me.
The controls are horrible and oddly specific at times - one of the puzzles later in the game has you line up moon phases and being very, very slightly off, will make the puzzle not progress, what makes it worse is that you have 4 different "keys" of which each one can be a hair off and you wouldnt know unless you checked them again, which you wouldnt really do if you thought youd did it right in the first place, cuz its not rocket science the game just expects you to be as precise as youd need to be as a a rocket scientist for that particular puzzle.
I got to the last chapter and that one lever puzzle just made me uninstall the game cuz its just too finicky. A lever has to slide up and down and left and right on multiple connecting section on a cylinder - dragging up drags it left sometimes or right or just does nothing at all. Same for all other directions.
Its just not good - same with a lot of the things you have to open, pull or push - it just sucks with a mouse and you can feel this was made for a touch experience.
The "story" has the same extend as "The Room" does and I hate to compare the both but its rather obvious that it was a big inspiration to The House of Da Vinci.
Luckily you can get all the achievements before actually finishing the game so that a win I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At first it's very interesting, but the further you go, the more stuffy and illogical the game becomes

Decent but very frustrating. Go play The Room series if you haven't yet. If you are looking for more then maybe consider this game.

Controls and camera are very frustrating 5/5 game that lose 2 points for being annoying to play and lots of slow camera moves. 3/5 overall

This is just a disgusting parody of the "The Room" series of games. Horribly crooked controls, when you can miss the right place and it will not open. Several times the object hung on the cursor and did not return back to the inventory, which is why you had to restart. Of course, there are interesting moments, but in most cases these are either very simple tasks, or completely meaningless ones that you solve completely by accident. And how can you not mention hints from the "I can stick this lever somewhere" category.

This review is in progress as I am currently playing the game, but I'm already not happy with it, so I'm taking notes here as I play through the game:

Controls feel clunky. Need to try most motions multiple times to get the game to recognize what I'm trying to do.

The lenses interface was showing the second lens before I unlocked it, so after I had, I didn't realize that part of the interface did anything, because it didn't until after I actually unlocked the second lens. Furthermore, lenses only when you are zoomed all the way in on an object, so you can't survey the entire room with a lens on looking for clues.

There are several parts of the game that tell you explicitly what to click on and that just feels like lazy design. For example, after unlocking the second lens, the game tells you to look at the square in the corner. With this being a four corner room, I had to click on multiple corners until I found the one that the game actually wanted me to look at, but I still couldn't see anything interested because I didn't have the lens on.

There are various points were you find scrolls with ribbons on them, and consistently you have to remove the ribbon before you can read the scroll, but I've just found a scroll with a ribbon on it that I didn't have to remove first. Just.. why? I feel like this game is toying with me.

- Game is heavy design in mind for a touch screen, it still playable with mouse.
- many Interactive elements don't stand out and are sometimes very obscured, so I'm led to randomly click on everything until something triggers.

Visual annoyance
- sometimes its too dark
- secret vision glass is dirty, its like wearing unclean glasses

I like solving puzzles but, several times I was annoyed and gave in to a walkthrough

Fascinating. I definitely wasn't up to completing it by myself, but I loved doing what I could. A beautifully complex environment.

Güzel bir bulmaca oyunu.

great puzzles a bit hard for me but i keep trying very addictive and great fun

Overall I enjoyed this game - it definitely tickled my love of escape rooms.

That being said, the early game was far more fun than the later game. The puzzles didn't only increase in challenge (which is fine), they increased in obscurity as well. The early puzzles in the first few levels may have taken me some trial and error and serious thinking, but I got them eventually. Some of the later puzzles were so obscure I had to make extensive use of the hint system, and a couple of them I had to find guides elsewhere to help. Two of the puzzles in the last stage nearly had me rage-quitting even with hints.

Again, I did overall enjoy the game and would say it's worth playing if you like escape room style puzzle games, but The Room series was better IMHO. I don't know for certain if I'll play the rest of this series, while The Room had me hooked from the start and there was never any doubt I would play them all.

Mainly unintuitive puzzles with no fun.

The hardest thing to overcome were the puzzles you could not restart from their beginning, to try other combinations.
But the game was enthralling none the less.

The House of Da Vinci is similar to the Escape Room games, a puzzle game in Point and Click style.
I greatly enjoyed it!

8/10

cool puzzles , nice graphics.. fun game if you want your brain to hurt a little bit:P

Hehe puzzles

highly recommend. i've played the room 1-3, it's roughly the same formula but this is even better. normally i like to play without hints, but i've had to use several for this one, it's challenging.

Very enjoyable puzzle game with beautiful and intriguing graphics, nice background music, and most important of all, lots of great puzzles of varying complexity. I played all the Room series, and look forward now to playing the other two Da Vinci games. Note that Steam says I logged 22 hours, which for some odd reason is way off, and the game stated at the end that I spent 4.51 hours playing it. Well worth the money.

8/10

wrote a more detailed review but was trying to decide whether I'd recommend it or not, and apparently toggling between "yes" and "no" just deletes your draft review?

so: it's fine. Puzzles, graphics are pretty decent. Story is bad. Controls are just a little too finicky, which makes it hard to line things up properly like the game wants them, which is a problem because that's necessary for a lot of puzzles. Eyepiece history mechanic is actually interesting, but that's the only selling point of this game imo.

Room series is better. If you haven't played those games, go play them. If you have, and you really want something similar, honestly just look into a different genre. There are so many puzzle games out there beyond just puzzle box games. Try a puzzle platformer or a detective game. This game is fine, but it's not going to be another Room game for you.

i LIKE THE LOGIC THAT IT NEEDS

macOS version is crap and infuriating. you spend hours trying to find something, you can't find. you restart the game and now stuff you've tried before work or appear (like the Oculus thing). first time you're asked to draw some shape but there's no shape. you restart and BOOM. shape. this goes all along the game, and with other stuff too. absolutely awful for that kind of game that is about solving puzzles.

absolutely fabulous Very Well designed Awesome Graphics

I liked this game it reminded me of the room series,The atmosphere was dark with vibrant colours and the puzzles were hard some were pretty easy,Worth the price.

The graphics are poor anyway compared to a normal virtual world. But they are also glitchy, even on my fast machine. The view does not move smoothly from place to place as you move about. Also, the volume is always at 100% when you start the game up and it insists on showing the whole "gee wow aren't we wonderful" lame graphics intro, in excruciatingly low resolution no matter what settings you have configured. So rather amateurish in my view. "The Room" is sooo much better!

For the most part, I really enjoyed this game. There were a couple puzzles that stumped me more than I'd like to admit, but otherwise the difficulty level is not too challenging. It's apparent this game took influence from games like The Room series (I cannot remember which ones specifically it uses similar mechanisms to, off the top of my head). I'm looking forward to playing through the rest of these.

bestr game ever made i havent finished it yet but i feel so smart playing this ^-^

This is an ok game. This game is very similar to the room 2 and 3 in terms of the basics of the gameplay. they even have a very similar eyepiece mechanic to that of the room. I will say that the mechanisms seem to fit the theme of the time period very well as I could actually see after things were opened were was the mechanism that was locking the thing in place. I will say that this game has a rather weak story that does not really get resolved at all by the end. I would rather play any of the Room games over this one as this game although not bad is not as good as the Room series has always been.

fun game! i enjoyed all the puzzles. i took a buncha hints on stuff i shouldnt have but thats okay. i had fun! very creative puzzles!

Nice story and puzzles. Hints could be better, but easy to find walk through videos on Youtube.

very good game and not boring. helps you to develop your creative brain

one of the best puzzle games i've played in awile

Great story and puzzles - would definitely recommend

Very cool game with very weird controls.

I originally bought this game on mobile and played for a few hours, so I went into the game knowing what I was doing for 40% of it, the game would safely last 9 hours on a fresh play through.

I really enjoyed the puzzles the game has to offer, bar 2 which I would argue are almost impossible without hints. It is important to keep everything in mind at all times as the game will prey on you forgetting that at the entrance to the area there was a place for a key which you only get on puzzle 8 of 10. I lost my way a few times but the hint system helped me get back on track mostly, though i did find it ambiguous sometimes.

I do consider it a little steep at 17 pounds (though not by much) but I believe it regularly goes on sale so definitely worth a pick up whenever it is, which is what I will be doing for 2 and 3 because it was a good time!

really fun! has a good range of interesting puzzle mechanics and designs, and the da vinci theming works really well! thoroughly enjoyed this one

Loved the game. loads of puzzles to solve in Da Vinci's house with brilliant graphics and animation