Lorelei and the Laser Eyes preview: Overclock your thinking cap

Annapurna Interactive finally gave us a release date for the upcoming title Lorelei and the Laser Eyes at this week’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase. The moody, noirish puzzler releases on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch on May 16. I got the chance to preview the title, and from what I saw so far, it’s quite the brain teaser. What it lacks in accessible story or spoken dialogue, it makes up for in puzzles — so, so many puzzles.

In Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, developed by Simogo, you play a mysterious woman who arrives at a hotel, invited by a mysterious patron for a mysterious project. Using only context clues and good old-fashioned clues-clues, you must piece together who you are, what you’re doing, what the mysterious person wants from you and how you’re going to go about doing that.