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Game
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Lorelai
Developer Harvester Games
The little she had was taken away, but Lorelai refuses to give up, she will fight. And not even death will stop her from getting it all back... From the Steam store page
259 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
156 positive · 13 negative
95% range 87–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 156 | 13 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 19 | 3 | 65 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
755 of 845 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
92% recommend · 162 yes, 14 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 176 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,520 of 1,677 positive).
Players praise the game's emotional depth and beautiful art style. [1][2][3] Some find the story dark and depressing but still compelling. [4][5][6] A few reviewers criticize the pacing and technical issues. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
TLDR: A disappointing finale. This game feels much more like a ‘choose your own adventure’ type interactive fiction than a game type one. General Thoughts/Overview: Lorelai is the closing whimper of the devil came through here series. Having played Downfall, I eagerly put Lorelai and The Cat Lady on my list of games to play. It was a brooding and deeply thoughtful piece. This… well, this just isn’t. We are Lorelai, …
- [2]
Oh damn, what a ride that was I loved everything about that game The story, oh how my heart felt heavy through the whole gameplay and how my face was wet with tears at the end The artstyle is incredible and changes so often, it was such a wonderful sight and made me sit in front of it with awe The music is awesome too, really good picks All in all, well, I wish I could experience it again without knowing anything …
- [3]
Lorelai, developed by Harvester Games and published by Screen 7, stands as the haunting conclusion to a trilogy that began with The Cat Lady and continued with Downfall. Like its predecessors, it blends psychological horror with deeply human storytelling, using surrealism and emotional intensity to explore themes of trauma, despair, and resilience. This final chapter shifts its focus to a new protagonist, Lorelai, a …
- [17]
I have to agree with other players that reviewed this before, this title is quite darker than the rest of Harvester Games collection, The Cat Lady and Downfall were both heavy and dark games but there was some aspect of redemption and conciliation before the end, Lorelai can feel quite unredeeming. Also found the whole nursing home work a bit unnecessary and overly grim. That's all I can criticise it for, it's still …
- [1]
Cloaked in blood, horror, and grotesque surreal imagery, this game is, at its heart, a painful and desperate story about growing up and refusing to give in.
Summarised from 34 of the 259 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Lorelai sits at 92% positive across 169 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 259 · most liked firstMagica Riot game where Claire goes to the food cart pod for meal buffs but must play a minigame to successfully survive the Flirting Gauntlet with Delilah and Lorelai without having her useless little lesbian brain implode
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on Get Played Siobhan Thompson joins Heather, Nick and Matt to discuss the 2025 adventure game Lorelai and the Laser Eyes! Listen wherever you get your podcasts headgum.com/get-played or ad-free + DLC at Patreon.com/getplayed
neutral · AI labelView post →Its our first TTRPG Casting Call of the year! Pantsless Tables Presents I Want Your Bite Season 2, featuring @theagentp.bsky.social as DM and @aadimk.bsky.social as Lorelai the Vampire. Sign up to play in this fantastic game created by @ilananight.bsky.social pantslesstables.tv/i-want-your-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Two characters I designed for class! Lorelai and Silvie, a reaper and a ghost locked in a cat and mouse game of reviving and quelling lost souls. Also totally not enemies to lovers what could you possibly be talking about #art #oc #ocs #myocs
neutral · AI labelView post →Cloaked in blood, horror, and grotesque surreal imagery, this game is, at its heart, a painful and desperate story about growing up and refusing to give in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very unrealistic that Lorelai Gilmore doesn’t know what’s happening at the Havard Yale game, considering her parents say they go there every year. As if they didn’t drag her along as a kid. Doesn’t make sense at all
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow, I get to release a small game for the Halloween season that i’m extremely excited about. It started off as a test project to help with Lorelai Development, but ITS A WHOLE LIL GAME NOW AAAAAA #indiegame #indiehorrorgame #spookygames #pixelhorrorgame
neutral · AI labelView post →It's really not a Jacob Geller game, and I don't say that with any dismissiveness towards the game itself! I am not a big puzzle guy. I couldn't get into Lorelai last year or Blue Prince this year. Note that the list is games I *finished,* not just games I started.
negative · AI labelView post →1. #Char_Roleplay (December 2024 🔵🧵) LORELAI: *all bundled up in her big winter coat as she hangs out at a small seating area near the where the busses are parked at the secure lot across from Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville* *smiles as she sees Haven let through the gates* *waves to her* 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks for watching! 💜 Today's game was a scuff start but good, we managed to get gold 2! Thanks Arashikami_Jun & Simpai Shoutout to the lovely Raiders! 🎉 Its_Elegant_ MaxyMuze KokonoKokori We raided @chococotv.bsky.social playing Lorelai ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright. I feel like trash but I'm doing a low effort Twitch stream tomorrow. Saturday the 30th. 2 PM ET, 11 AM PT. I'm streaming "Lorelai and the Laser Eyes". That's the Simogo X Annapurna game. I reserve the right to cancel the stream at the last minute if I feel like trash. www.twitch.tv/mcc111
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh damn, what a ride that was I loved everything about that game The story, oh how my heart felt heavy through the whole gameplay and how my face was wet with tears at the end The artstyle is incredible and changes so often, it was such a wonderful sight and made me sit in front of it with awe The music is awesome too, really good picks All in all, well, I wish I could experience it again without knowing anything Go, take the ride 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simogo’s games are bigger and bolder now, Lorelai and the Laser Eyes is one of the best games I’ve ever played and one I’d recommend to people who don’t normally game in a heartbeat
positive · AI labelView post →23. Game with the best graphics or art style I prize art style over fidelity. The games with the art style that most fully conveys the mood the developer wants to communicate are made by Harvester Games (The Cat Lady, Downfall, Lorelai, Burnhouse Lane). Grungy depression and desperation.
positive · AI labelView post →I will be attempting to dualstream to Youtube again. Hope it goes well. ⭐ Okay we WILL play Lorelai ⭐ More Observation Duty 7. I really wanna clear a map. ⭐ I hear this game is nice Art by @miomochirou.bsky.social Twitch: twitch.tv/chococotv Youtube: youtube.com/@chococotv #vtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →TLDR: A disappointing finale. This game feels much more like a ‘choose your own adventure’ type interactive fiction than a game type one. General Thoughts/Overview: Lorelai is the closing whimper of the devil came through here series. Having played Downfall, I eagerly put Lorelai and The Cat Lady on my list of games to play. It was a brooding and deeply thoughtful piece. This… well, this just isn’t. We are Lorelai, a teen that didn’t make it into university and has just embarked on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was such a letdown for me. I initially bought it as a bundle after playing The Cat Lady a bit. I don't regret supporting the developers/writers because Downfall and The Cat Lady are beloved games of mine. Downfall I even went back to try to achieve the different endings - but I'm not sure I have the motivation to do the same here. All the games are dark, sure, mental health motif and all... but it feels like there's just not really any humor or hope. - Nothing surprised me.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, how is it possible that this game makes my PC run hotter than Elden Ring ever did? It makes no sense for a game like this to push my system that hard, please fix this. Secondly, while the presentation seems decent at first, that’s only on the surface. The game itself is hollow. The story is simple, but the presentation makes it so confusing. The scenes change so abruptly that I kept losing track of what was happening. In the end, we find out that the devil got involved in this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The few times that Morgan and Lauren interact when they are alone or just with the girls not talking game they give me such Lorelai and Rory vibes #bb27
neutral · AI labelView post →#1- Klondike brings back the Choco Taco. Immediately. #2- Game Of Thrones Season 8 is re-written & re-shot. #3- More Gilmore Girls. (This is non-negotiable. More Lorelai. Now.) #4- Warner Brothers releases The Batgirl Movie. #5- McDonalds makes the McRib an every-day menu item.
neutral · AI labelView post →[Steam] Devil Came Through Here Trilogy ($2.63 / 89% off). - The Cat Lady + Soundtrack - Downfall + Soundtrack - Lorelai
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad and broken stories for sad and broken people.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →make sure you have lots of chocolate, painkillers and antidepressants with you while playing this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this one completely blind because I loved Rem Michalski's previous two games but, unless you're a diehard fan of The Devil Came Through Here series, it's hard to recommend this one. Extremely long load times, simplistic puzzles and videoclip-like sequences which distract from the experience make for a less than satisfying experience. On the other hand, there's a very high level of polish in the audiovisual aspect, especially considering it's basically a one-man show.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has zero reasons to be so heavy on the hardware. Graphics, even when set to "potato", make my laptop burn in five minutes. So unless it's purposely mining crypto, the game design is a failure. For reference - Downfall Redux (2016) and The Cat Lady (2012) had no such issues. On a personal note, I feel as though the change in graphics also stripped the game of the vibes of the previous two games. I will try to finish the game in the future on a better computer, but until then, it is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It`s sad, dark and depressing... But in a great way! You can really feel what the main character is experiencing, the story is well written and the voice acting is amazing. The 3 games of the DEVIL CAME THROUGH series are masterpieces!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last game I played was Lorelai. Why did nobody tell me how frickin awesome that game is? I thought it was a generic jumpscare 3d horror indy. But it's actually really cool horror adventure. And the previous title in the series The Cat Lady is even more badass. Got Lorelai some time ago for free on GOG and never played it because of above reservations. But somehow it always stayed in my head so I decided to actually try it and was blown away.
positive · AI labelView post →No game has had me scribbling notes like this in a LONG TIME. Lorelai and the Laser Eyes from Sunoco is amazing 💕💕💕
positive · AI labelView post →This is the third game in the "Devil Came Through Here" trilogy. Each game has a standalone story with some elements that carry over, so you could play them in any order, or even pick and choose. But I think they're best experienced in chronological order: The Cat Lady, Downfall, then Lorelai. Rather than following the same protagonist like most series would, in these three games it's the villain who stays the same. The Queen of Maggots offers the three protagonists the same deal: she'll give…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looking for new puzzle games to play that I haven’t yet, and inevitably someone ALWAYS recommends “The Witness” to me and it takes everything in my power to not tell them how much I hated that fucking game lmao Also, yes, I’ve played the Outer Wilds. Lorelai and the Laser Eyes is on my wishlist too
neutral · AI labelView post →Lorelai, developed by Harvester Games and published by Screen 7, stands as the haunting conclusion to a trilogy that began with The Cat Lady and continued with Downfall. Like its predecessors, it blends psychological horror with deeply human storytelling, using surrealism and emotional intensity to explore themes of trauma, despair, and resilience. This final chapter shifts its focus to a new protagonist, Lorelai, a young woman trapped in a bleak domestic life marked by abuse, loss, and fragile…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a beautiful game I´m in love the devil came through here trilogy is the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life. I personally recommend to start playing The Cat Lady first, then go for Downfall and then playing Lorelai. I also recommend playing Burnhouse Lane after you finished the devil came through here trilogy and trust me you´ll love it. Harvester Games is always a hit fr.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The beginning was kinda boring, but then the heroine dies right at the end of Chapter 1 like ridiculously clean and crisp, almost with a ding”—~-~” and my brain just lit up, suddenly it felt insanely fun lol Playing through the whole game it was really the heroine carrying her family’s severed heads, the pig-headed dad snapping to life, maggots growing on door, corpse forcing a kiss all those touching moments and the visual style that carried me through a lot of the game’s dragging, boring…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lorelai poked her head out and saw her shadow, prepare for 5 more years of Game of the Generation Niohposting
neutral · AI labelView post →You played Downfall and TCL? What are you waiting for, vro? You know this is another masterpiece. 11/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you will never destroy that Parasite who ruined your perfect little life Lorelai.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, this was fun enough for me to finish. But it's no "The Cat Lady." That was one of my favorite games. This one by contrast didn't hook me. The plot felt a bit more boring and contrived - in particular the parts with Jimmy. And the puzzles and spooks felt more toned down. I also don't want to play it again for achievements because there's no ability to skip dialogue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lorelai Gilmore talks a big game ab not telling her parents anything, but it aaaalways comes out. I’m always like, pffft amateur. She’s got nothing on me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gatcha game....means Oulan and Lorelai summer outfits.... MORE LOOKS TO COMMISSION THEM IN
neutral · AI labelView post →1. #Char_Roleplay 💙🧵 February 2025 LORELAI: *smiles as she enters the room* Well hello. WOLF: *looks over from the tablet and sighs to himself* Hello. LORELAI: It seems like someone has it in their mind that you need to suffer again this month. *jokes as she sits on the couch* 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →So far Lorelei became my favourite game from the trilogy. Maybe it is about more colorful visual style or story that hits home or characters you empathize and simpathize. But does the reason really matter? First of all, voice cast is absolutlety amazing, all actors did great job. "Blood filled tears" by Maisy Kay perfectly fits the mood and actually gives me some vibes of Elfen Lied even tho there is nothing similar in the storyline. I also admired little easter eggs, references and memes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This INCREDIBLE song by Maisy Kay was played at the starting screen of #Lorelai. We let time stop for a moment to listen to it before actually playing the game yesterday. youtu.be/M5Aea2UZtJY
neutral · AI labelView post →Compared to 'The cat lady' this one feels empty and unfinished. Even the puzzles are lackluster.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not too broken up about it tho, this game has been wildly fun to pick through thus far. Kind of the anti-Lorelai and the Laser Eyes, in that it's not as punishing and there is still a game to be played even if your progress on specific puzzles is impeded. Also the vibe is less oppressive imo
neutral · AI labelView post →honestly obsessed with this game. the nostalgic aesthetic? that deep, moody color palette? all making it even better its dark and psychological but in a beautiful way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →beautiful finale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to agree with other players that reviewed this before, this title is quite darker than the rest of Harvester Games collection, The Cat Lady and Downfall were both heavy and dark games but there was some aspect of redemption and conciliation before the end, Lorelai can feel quite unredeeming. Also found the whole nursing home work a bit unnecessary and overly grim. That's all I can criticise it for, it's still an incredible game and worth playing, as with everything made by Rem Michalski.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my favorite collaborative LPs with Samhain was Lorelai and the Laser Eyes, a puzzle game I found fascinating & quite moving. Loved the Last Year at Marienbad vibes - what a big, confident swing. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
positive · AI labelView post →Lorelai (@judgementscythe.bsky.social)'s 2024 games were a varied lot, but it's a safe bet Koei Tecmo's latest and FFXIV's expansion are on this list. What else made the cut? Find out here! gamesline.net/lorelais-top...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's been some narrative but it's disconncted chunks separate from what I'm doing on a mechanical level. I'm enjoying it mostly but as a puzzle game it's lacking compared to say Lorelai and the Laser Eyes, and I'm not seeing anything close to the depth (mechanical\narrative) of an Outer Wilds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't really tell which one was better - The Cat Lady or Lorelai, but honestly, still one of the best games I've ever played. A bit rushed ending, but meeting and getting to know The Queen of Maggots was such a great experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see Luke's left Lorelai and Stars Hollow and that it's a pirate's life for him now in the new Like A Dragon game 😆☠️. #LikeADragon #GilmoreGirls
neutral · AI labelView post →5. #Char_Roleplay LORELAI: *after parking in Atlanta, she's over at the drop box to collect her packages with Haven and a 2 security escorts* *smiles as she checks the stained glass tree topper to make sure it didn't break* HAVEN: *leans to see* That's super pretty. LORELAI: *smiles* It reminds 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep getting followers despite barely posting lately. Ahoy, I'm Lorelai. I dress like a witch, write urban fantasy fiction mostly set in a tabletop roleplaying game setting with a dying fandom, and sometimes I try to write media criticism. I'm poor and you should give me money.
neutral · AI labelView post →Harvester games has done it again! another amazing game with such a cool protagonist (her outfit and style is cool). i love this game alot and would replay to get the other endings but i need a little break from the trama T-T. i NEED more games by harvester i have played them all love them soo much <3 <3 i recommend playing their games in the following order for maxiumm enjoyment ; ~the cat lady ~downfall ~lorelai
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Device 6 was a hugely formative game for me, one of the games that made me want to make games, I never shut up about, and still one of my all time favourites. And I’m slightly overwhelmed at the thought of playing Lorelai and the Laser Eyes… What is this feeling
neutral · AI labelView post →They're unfortunately all horror. That kind of adventure game lead to survival horror with alone in the dark and it kinda ate the entire genre as a result. Lorelai and memento mori 2 come to mind. There's isometric games like beautiful desolation But most classic style adventure is point and click
neutral · AI labelView post →The Cat Lady and Downfall are both amazing, but Lorelai unfortunately does not have the same level of quality. First, the positives are that the art, graphics and music are much better than the previous two games. But, the gameplay and puzzles are boring and there is way too much dialogue. The story is not interesting at all either. There are also frequent crashes, something that never happened to me with the prior two games. Overall, disappointing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtube.com/watch?v=HcX1GpMR9n4&list=RDHcX1GpMR9n4&start_radio=1&pp=ygUPZ2FyYmFnZSBwdXNoIGl0oAcB0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can contracts with unknown devilish entities help you defeat a comically evil abusive alcoholic stepfather? Buy this game and find out what it's like to live in the UK.
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