The Last Door

About The Last Door

The Last Door was made by The Game Kitchen, the Spanish studio that later made Blasphemous, and first released in episodes before the Collector's Edition gathered the first season on Steam in 2014, with new scenes and puzzles, enhanced graphics, unlockable bonuses and remastered sound. A second season continues the story.

Jeremiah Devitt receives a letter from his old schoolmate Anthony Beechworth with a hidden, cryptic message, and knows something is wrong. His journey to an abandoned manor is only the beginning. Across four episodes he travels through Victorian England's manors, decaying tenements and underground warrens, remembering a secret from their school days and discovering things man was not meant to know.

The pictures are made of very few, very large pixels, and the game uses that to make you imagine more than you see. Sound carries much of the fear: creaking floors, birds, music that rises at the wrong moment. You play by pointing and clicking, examining, collecting and combining items to solve each scene's puzzles, with little more than a lamp and a magnifying glass.

It suits players who like old-fashioned ghost stories and Lovecraft, and point-and-click adventures with atmosphere over action.

How to play The Last Door

1. Click to walk Jeremiah through each scene and examine objects and people.
2. Pick up items and use or combine them to solve the puzzles in your way.
3. Read letters and listen carefully; the story and clues come through text and sound.
4. Work through the four episodes of the first season in order.

Tips

• Play with headphones; the sound design matters as much as the pictures.
• Hover over everything; small pixels can hide important objects.
• Read the letters twice; the cryptic message is a puzzle in itself.

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