Astral Lodge

Fun little game to click your way through...maybe on a lunch break, although given the setting of the game, maybe more a midnight snack break. You'll match the vibe a lot better if you play with the lights off; it's eerie, but not what I'd call scary (for an adult). The logic for all the puzzles is almost universally solid. There's one solution that I think colors outside the lines a little, but in practical terms it's not a big deal because of how short the game is (in other words, having to brute-force is always bad, yes, but in a short game you can overlook it because there's only so much space to brute-force in...it's not gonna take that long). The one improvement I'd suggest is quality-of-life improvements to the cursor. It's small enough that it can be hard to see in some of the more complex scenes, and the color change (when hovering over a hot zone) is also too subtle (although if the cursor were larger/thicker, that might cease to be an issue). My suggestion, for what it's worth, is to make the cursor larger (and maybe thicker), then see if the color change is more pronounced and make the two colors more contrasting if the larger cursor size isn't enough. If you're using Proton, you may have to switch to version 9.0-4 to get it to start. On my Intel GPU it wouldn't start with the default Proton, but after I switched to 9.0-4 as far as I can tell everything works perfectly. Not much else to say that isn't said by the store page information; it's a very short game -- in a good way, that it doesn't last longer than its novelty justifies -- and I enjoyed it.

I laughed, I cried, I Lodged. Astral Lodge is a simple, free game that is intuitive to pick up and play. I enjoyed it and saw the creator has another bigger game in the works - definitely adding to my wishlist!

Игра Astral Lodge — это настоящее погружение в мир загадочных ритуалов и оккультных тайн. С первых минут она затягивает своей атмосферой, густой и пропитанной мистикой. Визуальный стиль, выполненный в приглушенных тонах и с причудливыми деталями, идеально передает ощущение чего-то потустороннего. Геймплей, основанный на исследовании, решении головоломок и взаимодействии с необычными персонажами, постоянно держит в напряжении. Каждая найденная подсказка, каждый разгаданный символ — это шаг ближе к пониманию мрачной истории, разворачивающейся на экране. Музыкальное сопровождение также заслуживает отдельной похвалы, оно ненавязчиво, но создает нужное настроение, подчеркивая напряженные моменты и моменты откровений. Astral Lodge — это не просто игра, это путешествие в неизведанное, которое оставит после себя множество вопросов и приятное послевкусие от успешно пройденных испытаний.

Astral Lodge is an extremely short room escape game, but it has a striking modernist art style that makes it worth a play.

short and barebones but cool artstyle, hope to see future projects :)

Deep beneath this game I believe it specifically exists for occult purposes. There is a machine that has you matching up tarot suites that's randomized every time you engage with the machine. It seems reminiscent of other games I've played regarding occult decks of cards, but this one seems to explicitly use tarot suites as a mechanic. I had two decks next to me, including one I seldom use (Tarot de la Niot by Alexandra V Bach) I happened to buy one day. it wasn't the deck I was looking for but it was between this and a cottagecore deck. I figured since I use Tarot de la Nuit for shadowwork, I'd use your spread to see what comes, and boy did it come up virtually immediately. I figured out a new way to read tarot--I can use this machine as a fixed spread where I can use the minor arcana suites to augment specific themes of the drawn cards. I quite liked the experience. To be honest I put this game in my cart on a shopping spree during the last Steam Summer Sale because of its title--it quite set in my mind that this game was hiding a secret. I had no idea that it was a simple flash game, I just got it because of the name. A few months ago, I think either shortly after or shortly before I bought this game, i did dream that I was drawn into a Lodge (cable-tow and all) and [REDACTED]. I think about Lodges often, but like, I never get dreams. I showd up in the *SAME* room, and well.. . the original dream had yellow and green wallaper and it looked very eeriely like vines, except it was a marbled yellow wallpaper with green pinstripe ropes and some crest-shape... I have the dream recorded in a journal somewhere (man I just heard brakes squeak in a Jaws sting as I'm typing this). Then in my dream I'm in the Lodge again--the same location, IDK if it really exists, but all the wallaper is a very normal rec room with normal off-white paint, like a very standard Lodge. Something something I'm a trans man but I had to meet once in the astral lodge. I'd been considering playing the game lately but really didnt' feel like it? I have dozens of other games I could let sit in my steam games list foreveer and all of eternity LMAO so like, the game was ASKING me to play it I think. Now I see why, it's got that tarot machine with that strange old CD pluged directly into what appears to be the entire purpose of the game. I have... experience with certain machines and what it did to my astral. Needless to say I'll prob be spending a lot more time using that machine to divinate with The AIs That Are Surveilling Me For Reasons I Cannot Express Except In [REDACTED] I swear I'm not joking this is real. So uh yeah, thanks for the tarot spread cover story video game! I will legitimately be playing this game for that purpose. That being said I think your game injected itself into my dream world before I knew much of it, and then I see *THAT* thing in it, actually protecting *FROM* it, while having its benefits, so uh, yeah, thanks, I actually have history with the thingy thing so uh, ueah. Your game is very haunted 17/10 can confirm many thanks! Edit: The Viridian Room traumatized me as a child. I made a let's play of it covering the whole weird stuff I went through bc that game jdidn't just drag me into its weird hellhole, its soundeffects drove me insane for many years and honestly, the game is super depressing and it's REALLY creepy once you realize what it *really* symbolizes. IK there were a lot of bs allegtions about that game but honestly I remember it fondly, if only a creepypasta that became a core memory that never stopped echoing LMAO

A little short but the style is impeccable.