The House of Da Vinci 2
The House of Da Vinci 2
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The House of Da Vinci 3
Developer Blue Brain Games
The grand finale to The House of Da Vinci trilogy is here! Solve numerous new puzzles and mind benders and explore new mystifying locations of ravishing beauty. From the Steam store page
199 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 11, 2026 · last updated Oct 12, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
82
LovedLoved
150 positive · 32 negative
95% range 76–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 150 | 32 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 0 | 16 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
548 of 625 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
82% recommend · 153 yes, 34 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,247 of 1,397 positive).
Players praise the puzzle design and satisfying mechanical animations. [1][2][3][4] Some reviewers find puzzles illogical or frustrating, with pixel hunting issues. [5][6][7][8] The game is seen as a weaker entry in the series but still enjoyable for fans. [9][10][11][12]
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- [7]
Third one in the series, third one with the same issues, unfortunately cause there seems some passion behind it and had potential. Puzzles are usually okay, story and atmosphere is fine for an indie game, even if the ending seemed unfinished. The major problem is frantically hovering my mouse over every part of the screen to see what I can actually interact with. For me puzzle games are supposed to make you feel …
- [1]
Bought all 3 house of Da vinci games during a sale. If you do like puzzle games, I would recommend giving it a try, especially on discount. However, I do have a few things to say about the game. I came upon this series when I was looking for more similar puzzle games after completing the room series. As expected, it did resemble the room in a lot of ways. It has a great story, good worldbuilding, excellent theming …
- [5]
More of the same. I did not enjoy this one as much. The courtyard puzzle with the windmill had a lot of backtracking, which is boring. Some of the other puzzles had no obvious clues how to proceed, so I had to sit and wait for hints, only to learn the next step made no logical sense. The time travel depiction here, unlike in HoDV 2, is nonsensical: people are frozen in time but you can still manipulate objects, open …
- [17]
A good puzzle games similar to the likes of The Room series. The puzzles and level design are good with enough complexity most of the time to be challenging. No solutions felt illogical or impossible to arrive to/find. And the hint system was good at progressively giving more detail without flat out spoiling the solution until the very last clue. I look forward to the next game being developed by this group.
- [4]
Over-designed machinery whirring, spinning, rotating and raising into action will always be a satisfying reward for me solving a puzzle. The House of Da Vinci series is one of the few clones of The Room that has the animation chops and mechanical creativity to truly impress me. I'll note some rough edges that persist in this third game. The complex & detailed environments get in the way of smooth, casual gameplay …
Summarised from 34 of the 207 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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The House of Da Vinci 3 sits at 82% positive across 182 opinionated reactions from 2 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 199 · most liked firstwaiting on mods for confirmation, but i did a world-record speedrun of 'The House of Da Vinci 3'! (PC)
positive · AI labelView post →Third one in the series, third one with the same issues, unfortunately cause there seems some passion behind it and had potential. Puzzles are usually okay, story and atmosphere is fine for an indie game, even if the ending seemed unfinished. The major problem is frantically hovering my mouse over every part of the screen to see what I can actually interact with. For me puzzle games are supposed to make you feel smart for figuring out a solution, not 'pixel hunting' until you give up and let…
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neutral · AI labelView post →Just tedious. I completed volumes 1 and 2 and kind of convinced myself that they were somewhat satisfying. At least the graphics were good. Kind of a poor mans version of the "The Room" series which I also played most of them and actually enjoyed. Maybe House of Da Vinci 3 is not that different from volumes 1 and 2, but I played 5 chapters so far, and very few puzzles are actually what I call fun. Very heavy emphasis on simple "find the hotspot/interactive part" puzzles which I find…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish i stopped playing at the first one. I have found myself more and more frustrated by the size of the levels and the seeming irrelevance between each puzzle step. The two problems combined make for a frustrating experience and by now i am experiencing more pain than pleasure. The camera angles and weird mouse controls do not help with this at all. I earnestly advise a skip, or go in with a stomach for jank.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought all 3 house of Da vinci games during a sale. If you do like puzzle games, I would recommend giving it a try, especially on discount. However, I do have a few things to say about the game. I came upon this series when I was looking for more similar puzzle games after completing the room series. As expected, it did resemble the room in a lot of ways. It has a great story, good worldbuilding, excellent theming and aesthetics to boot. The puzzles aren't too difficult, there are a handful…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a decent continuation of the franchise, with a few issues preventing me from giving it a honest thumbs up. The most glaring issue is the technical side- the game has no frame limiter or even at least a vsync option, so you're stuck with your GPU going full tilt for no reason, spinning its fans, eating extra energy and heating up the room. Yes you can limit FPS through your GPU control panel, but that makes the game sorta choppy. It will report that it outputs 60 FPS, but will drop some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was really hard to give this a thumbs down, and if you played 1 & 2, you probably should play 3 as well, even if it has a lot of problems going for it. I appreciate the strong story-driven narrative of the game, but it has quite a few large questionmarks left unanswered, and also weird and frustrating puzzle design directions. The story: SPOILER It picks up at where the 2nd game ended. The structure of the story completely falls apart. 1)We do not know who the mysterious Order member is,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Didn't know solving puzzles would be this phenomenal! Shoutout to the devs for making this fun little game! Indie game studios have been releasing based games lately. Worth giving this series a play tbh.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone said before: 'we get hours of "find the button to press or the handle to turn, congratulations"'. Awful dialogue, repetitive, not logical and unoriginal "puzzles", no new mechanics. THOD 1 and 2 are good, this one is.....ehhh forget it! Don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the previous two games, the first one in flat and VR, and I didn't care for this one. The game doesn't really have the same vibe as the first two. And it didn't feel intuitive. I'm not expecting the game to be easy or answers to be obvious, but the previous games had a flow that this one just didn't. I occasionally got stuck in the first two, but this was a regular occurrence in this game. And what you are can and cannot or are supposed to interact with didn't feel natural. I ended up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzle not quite make sense... Camera movement killing me. I can't play through chapter 2...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just the sort of game I love playing. Relaxing, thought provoking, attractive, no stressful goals that are time limited. I'm looking forward to many more like it. Give it a try; you won't regret it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Argh, same mixed feelings I had with the sequel: it is nice that a Room clone tries to spice it up with higher difficulty and less hand holding, but on one hand it sometimes goes too hard with the pixel hunting and on the other it feels a bit too much like going through the mechanical motions. There is more pure storytelling, with characters and dialogues and stuff, and yet it feels just a bit more gamey, a bit more doing a then b then c, a bit more housework than it should be. Yet, I cannot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I should have stopped at The House of Da Vinci 2. All of the elements that aggravated me in the first game made a return in this one. I solved many of the puzzles by accident, and the ending left much to be desired.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of the same. I did not enjoy this one as much. The courtyard puzzle with the windmill had a lot of backtracking, which is boring. Some of the other puzzles had no obvious clues how to proceed, so I had to sit and wait for hints, only to learn the next step made no logical sense. The time travel depiction here, unlike in HoDV 2, is nonsensical: people are frozen in time but you can still manipulate objects, open doors, and put out fires? Pttth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately cannot recommend this game. Even though first 2 were quite good and intriguing this genuinely feels like just a cash grab. Re-used puzzles, boring room design and a story that noone cares about. I would say play first 2 and skip this one and play The Room series instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post-holiday Monday got you down? You're welcome to come decompress in my channel while I point-and-click my way through The House of Da Vinci 3 (and sip on Death Wish coffee at 9PM because I have Tuesdays off, suckas). XD www.twitch.tv/observerherb
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're a fan of games like Myst and The Room, this game will feel somewhat familiar. However, the range of puzzle difficulty is wide from moment to moment: some puzzles will be so obvious you'll wonder if you're a genius or the developers just couldn't think of anything clever, and then in the next moment a puzzle will be so obscure you can't help but wait for a hint to pop up. What ultimately became clear to me is that many of the puzzles are illogical, and so your job is not to "logic your…
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neutral · AI labelView post →If you like puzzle games with cool devices and gadgets that open and operate in a way that's fun to watch, you would enjoy this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good puzzle games similar to the likes of The Room series. The puzzles and level design are good with enough complexity most of the time to be challenging. No solutions felt illogical or impossible to arrive to/find. And the hint system was good at progressively giving more detail without flat out spoiling the solution until the very last clue. I look forward to the next game being developed by this group.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate the thought behind leaning into the story-driven aspects of this game. However, the added extrinsic motivation of trying to do these time-sensitive high-stakes things completely ruins the normal joy of solving puzzles. It turned what should be the joy of discovery into the annoyance of impediment. Regardless of how good the puzzle is, the story is telling me to Accomplish Goal Now and demanding I rush through whatever is put it in front of me, making it an obstacle rather than…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1 and 2 were good but 3 was far from being fun. Uninstalled at the last chapter. Still recommend if you are a die hard puzzle fan. Bear in mind most puzzles are hidden object style.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed this game. I think the first game was the hardest. There were two puzzles in this game that made no sense: the roman numeral puzzle, and the puzzle with the scissors and wood squares. Ending was ok, could have been better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can You Solve The Mysteries of The House of Da Vinci 3? Escape to the past, solve intricate puzzles and uncover the mystery in The House of Da Vinci 3, a 3D puzzle game from Blue Brain Games. treatyourgeek.co.uk/can-you-solv... #HouseOfDaVinci #Game #Review #Gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →An alright conclusion to the House of Da Vinci Trilogy. For me personally, I could not follow the story in this game nor the previous. I'm sure if I took the time to really go through the events, I could make sense of it, but otherwise the story is a bit hard to follow. Some of the puzzles make no sense at all and really frustrated me. Also, the fact that the characters all pronounced Giacomo differently broke a bit of the immersion and seemed like quite an oversight. I think, overall, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good puzzle game :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have played all of the House of Da Vinci games and have enjoyed each one. I just finished this game and had to review. I love puzzle games, and this one feels like an actual computer game, not a cheap phone game that also sells on steam, like many others do, This series has given me about 8-9 hours of game each installment, and I have never felt so sad beating a game. The levels were at your own pace and while challenging not to hard, beautifully animated, and always fun! I cannot wait for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game was the best. Second was okay but tedious. Third is just plain tedious. Puzzles don't make sense and using hints is almost required in order to make sense of it. I am disappointed but not surprised.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just the type of puzzle game I love. No chases, time limits etc. Try and challenge yourself not to look at the clues as some just give the puzzles away. I'd say it's probably the easiest out of all 3 of them, but a good engaging game never the less - if you enjoy the puzzle format.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I kept thinking about how you could skip 90% of the puzzles by climbing around or just smashing stuff open with a hammer
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neutral · AI labelView post →lots of "filler" puzzles, some are quite tedious (skip button option would be nice) Story really didnt resonate with me at all
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neutral · AI labelView post →Many puzzles but the journey was worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very well balanced if difficulty yet doable even for beginners of this type of puzzle with built in hints
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →t starts off fine but in the later chapters the puzzles become more and more tedious to do.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I did have fun doing the puzzles for this game, much like the previous two, I ended up sitting through so many cutscenes during this one that I lost track of the story for most of it and just became bored (for example, both chapter three and chapter six were basically just cutscenes with like two things you can do in them each). There also was not as many puzzles that involved the time travelling mechanic, which is strange for a game that focuses so much on time travel. It is definitely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The House of Da Vinci 3 drops you straight back into where the previous game ended and then pushes you to conspiracies, science, magic, and Vatican-level secrets. The puzzles are the heart of the experience, and I won’t spoil how they work because discovery is half the joy here. But the variety really stood out. You’re constantly bouncing between number puzzles, mechanical contraptions, and that classic loop of “put this object here so that thing opens over there.” It never felt stale. Just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Over-designed machinery whirring, spinning, rotating and raising into action will always be a satisfying reward for me solving a puzzle. The House of Da Vinci series is one of the few clones of The Room that has the animation chops and mechanical creativity to truly impress me. I'll note some rough edges that persist in this third game. The complex & detailed environments get in the way of smooth, casual gameplay because it's tough to know what's interactive. The environments are nice…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic graphics , storyline and puzzles. Highly recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the house on da vinci games were great. Too bad the Telsa one kinda sucked
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have bought and played all three Da Vinci games and I really liked them. I have no dislikes about all three games. just likes!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its an OK game, but there´s too much running around looking for where I can use this item I just found. Many puzzles are barely puzzles, its about moving around finding what spot to click next. Not having free movement gets annoying too. I bought it on sale to get an idea of how the upcoming House of Tesla might be since Im an electrical engineer and big Tesla fan. I wont be buying it after playing this.
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neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing atmosphere, clever puzzles, and super satisfying how everything connects in the end. Challenging but never frustrating. If you enjoy well-crafted puzzle games, this one's a no-brainer. Highly recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We loved this puzzle game. Many hours of fun. There are always multiple level hints to help you along. Achievements are harder to get than expected. Would highly recommend all three games in the series.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked the first two games you'll probably like this one too. I'd say the puzzles are overall less frustrating (yay) and easier (meh) than in 2. Story is a bit of a drop off IMO as there's really none of the mystery of the first two games, but it's still worth seeing the conclusion.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i enjoyed playing all 3 levels, I really like these games. highly recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game provided a nice immersive story line. The flow between puzzles was well directed. The puzzles were just challenging enough to keep you trying without becoming frustrated enough to stop playing. Have played all 3 so far and looking forward to the next story.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Unlocking Secrets in the Shadow of Genius 🔺" The House of Da Vinci 3 isn’t just a puzzle game—it’s a journey through hidden symbols, intricate mechanisms, and the mind of a master. Every puzzle feels like a step closer to unveiling the secrets of the ages. For those who seek enlightenment, this game pulls back the veil on mysteries that only the initiated will understand. 10/10—A true masterpiece of the mind.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A wonderful continuation of the series, for fans of the puzzle The Room, Da Vinci will definitely like it, the main thing is to play in order ;) :flame: :flame: :flame:
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzles and visuals of the machines. Story sections are jank and not very well acted, but it's also not the selling point of the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Spend longer in cut scenes and without control of your character than solving puzzles. Most of said puzzles are stupid simple and painfully obvious - click the one possible button or hold the one possible movable object. Game is pretty, but shallow and boring compared to the earlier ones. Most disappointing is how many rooms seem full of complex objects when you first walk in, but then it turns out you can only interact with a few minor items and move on to the next set piece within minutes.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent puzzles and a solid challenge
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed 15 hours of fun and sometimes frustration playing this game. My only complaint was that my enjoyment of some parts could have been improved by explaining where we were and why/how. However, I recommend this game and I will no doubt play it again in the future. Also when I was completely stuck, I learned that the best way forward was to leave the game and come back to it fresh another day and if that didn't work then the hints were much appreciated.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This wasn't as good as the first 2. It quickly became "Hey! I found a thing. It must fit in that other thing with that shape on it. That gave another thing. I'll find the thing that that goes in" etc.etc. VA was awful. Lots of typos in Subs and changed pronunciation of names throughout the game for the same character. Still enjoyed, but only worth it on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am gonna write a bit more thoroughly in this review as this is the current last game in this series, and seems to be the conclusion of the Da Vinci saga with them moving on to Tesla. While all 3 games were indeed enjoyable, and I would recommend everyone gives them a chance, if they like point and click puzzle games, I will say they feel worse to me than The Room series of games. I will say some positive things though before giving my criticism. The presentation, music, voice acting and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm really disappointed in this one. I genuinely love games in this genre but this was so tedious that I uninstalled the game before I finished it. The movement was slow, you are basically forced to read the notes because otherwise you're just stuck on what to do. There were also several times in which I moved the correct piece onto a puzzle and it just simply wouldn't work until I zoomed out, zoomed back in and it finally snapped into place. Lots of putting buttons/levers here and turning it…
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