The Spectrum Retreat is an adventure developed by Dan Smith Studios, released 10 July 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Spectrum Retreat is
The Spectrum Retreat is an adventure game developed by Dan Smith Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Ripstone. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You awake at The Penrose hotel, a peaceful yet unsettling refuge from the outside world. All is not as it seems, and your desire to unearth the truth is obstructed by an array of color-coded puzzles, mind-bending physics challenges and the growing fear of exposing your true intentions.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Spectrum Retreat holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Spectrum Retreat launched on 10 July 2018, within three weeks of Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and Sonic Mania Plus. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Sonic Mania Plus.
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