Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is the latest work from Simogo, a small videogame studio from Sweden. I bought it without hesitation, and soon I was immersed in a mysterious story about a young woman exploring a deserted hotel, in Germany in 1962.
It’s about modern art, and cinema, and time jumping, and magic, and coffee, and a creepy girl with an owl mask, and possibly cosmic horror. And puzzles. Lots of puzzles.
In short, it’s like it was written just for me.

I’m not a very constant gamer and, as I mentioned recently, my Nintendo Switch has been inactive for a long time; I even left it at home during my short railroad trip last Spring. For the Summer holidays, on the other hand, the perspective of longer train rides convinced me to find alternatives to watching films and journaling, so, finally, during this second part of the year I have played a few games.

During my summer holidays I dusted off my Nintendo Switch after several months, if not years, of inactivity - mainly to pass the time during long train journeys.
I still like video games (I feel extremely old just using this definition - are they still called that way?), but they don’t relax me in the way I need to de-stress between a long day of work and a reasonably early bed.