The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition

“The graphics settings don't allow much choice, so if I wanted higher framerates, I'd need to lower the resolution.”

“This game is very frustrating, I have encountered graphical bugs and also glitches in puzzles that require you to reboot the game to try again.”

“Puzzles are convoluted and graphics seem poor for this day and age.”

“The odd thing is that there is quite a bit of scenery built for the game, so it kinda feels like they set up to do a lot, but ran short on ideas or budget for the actual puzzles and threw in some mechanics from the Room series to make you sorta feel like you're doing something.”

“I genuinely enjoyed this game, I had previously blitzed through the House of Da Vinci series (loved it) and was looking forward to see what this one had to offer. I liked the idea of working with electricity but, to me, it wasn't utilized enough, it was more of a visual mode of progression (like unlocking a door and going to the next room) aside from at least 2 puzzles (and I'll be honest at least one of them is a bit arguable). I really enjoyed most of the puzzles but some did frustrate me in terms of mechanics, and the hints only made me more frustrated as sometimes they just repeated themselves. Yes, I'm looking at the cup puzzle, that one, PMO I'll be honest, the solution left me feeling stupid instead of accomplished. No matter what I did I just couldn't solve it in a timely manner. 'Look at the patterns,' 'Maybe the patterns have the solution,' 'Did you see what patterns were on the bottles?' were all the hints gave and yes I see the patterns, yes I tried following them but the order didn't make sense. I was honestly asking the game at one point 'what order do you want these in???' Six random sized bottles with 3 patterns each, what did you want?!”

“Gameplay is clunky at best, control isn't optimized for Steam Deck at all.”

“Overall, it’s a collection of individually interesting ideas held back by clumsy execution and design decisions that made the experience more tedious than engaging.”

“One half of House of Tesla feels like a proper sequel and evolution to their previous work, then there is the other half: for every fun mechanism, clever puzzle, or surprise reveal, there is a puzzle that lacks any sort of context or defies logic, hides interactive elements or useful tools in the background so you won't notice them, or hits you with a tedious manipulation puzzle that takes 10-20 minutes of fighting just to put all the pieces where they obviously belong.”

“Awful puzzle design (often unclear goals, endless tedious fiddling, and/or just plain illogical nonsense that may succumb to brute force...sometimes).”

“The music, writing, voice acting, and animations are all very good.”

“Performance is good so far, good effects and pretty visuals, nice touch on the theme to represent the building and interiors, music won't bore you or be a nuisance.”

“The mysterious vibe combined with the music is definitely there throughout and I'm sure over time Tesla will become a gem.”

“However, I think the performance and optimization could be better.”

“For the rest, it's just fine for audio, graphics, and performance. I might add as a side note that it's about time to up the resolution for textures; some looked really stretched out.”

“Smooth Steam Deck performance; I could nearly finish a chapter before the 10% battery warning.”

“I would definitely not pay the full price for the game and with all the glitches they had to fix along the way it just simply wasn't worth it and I am deeply disappointed.”

“The game is buggy, making you restart chapters.”

“Unfortunately, this game is far too buggy, and there are several puzzles whose solutions make no logical sense.”