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Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Developer Ubik Studios, Stratera Games
Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery. From the Steam store page
138 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
108 positive · 30 negative
95% range 71–84%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
609 of 671 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 138 · most liked firstIt's been a while since I played a game that combines unique and high quality puzzles with such good storytelling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →havsala: into the soul palace is a 1st-person point & click adventure. while not a mobile port, the cursor doesn't change over interactable hotspots, only over ui elements, so it very much feels like one. no hotspot indicator either, so you'd expect it to cost about 2 bucks, yet it's somehow 10. it's also annoying that most things move when clicked, but only few actually do anything. it's cute in putt-putt and freddi fish, not so much here. the logo on startup is unskippable, as are the quotes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why can't we have good point and click adventure games any more? either they're far too easy or chock full of moon logic that would make guybrush blush. for example, one of the earlier ones. You find a page in a book showing the simplest pythagorean triangle (the one usually, as here too, depicted with three boxes filled with smaller boxes, for a^2 + b^2 = c^2) with symbols for each side. Somewhere else is a sliding puzzle where 3 of the blocks have the same symbol, 3 have alchemic symbols and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I greatly respect the amount of research that went into the storytelling aspect of this game and the puzzle complexity, I found little enjoyment in the copious amount of reading and obscurity of some of the puzzles. If you're looking for something light and relaxing, this isn't it. If you want a challenge and some history, culture, mythology, philosophy, geometry, music, astronomy, with a touch of frustration-go for it. The game plays fine. No hiccups. Negative only due to personal…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Havsala: Into the Soul Palace is an escape room adventure with astonishing hand-drawn art and an ancient Greek thematic revolving around the lives and works of several Greek personalities that are presented in the game as reincarnations of Phyrne - a famous and controversial courtesan who lived in the 4th century BC. The whole game spawns over four chapters, but happens in a single room, described as Phyrne’s Soul Palace - a place full of mysterious puzzles, astronomical and musical devices,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More interesting reviews on [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33843777//] Fenol Baron Approves Curator Page A very compact and tightly knit puzzle game that skillfully combines the complexity of the tasks and the smart presentation of the plot. The main theme here is ancient history and science, the connection with puzzles is very beautiful and natural. Even though everything happens in one room, it seems to expand due to the skillful use of the player’s imagination, which allows…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a great puzzle game with great attention to historical and cultural details, also it has a really cool art style!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never taken particular interest in the puzzle genre and as a result have never developed a "knack" for the games (read: zero skills). After seeing Havsala: Into the Soul Place in my friends activity feeds for a few weeks, I decided the beautiful art and seemingly immersive story would make this title a great choice for trying my hand at the category. Wrong. So, so wrong. This game is HARD. Maybe it's my peanut brain, but I did try some easier titles recommended by friends to help restore…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzles were too obtuse and way too much reading journals. I am a big adventure/puzzler and this one just did not taste good to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played the game when it was on beta. Its a cool puzzle game with hand drawn graphic art style. Definetly worth the purchase if you love puzzle click games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →VERY difficult point and click game from the very start. Quite obscure things mixed with those really annoying trial and error "puzzles," makes for a very frustrating and unenjoyable game. The good things? The music and sound is lovely and calming. The art style is very appealing to the eye (which is why I picked this game up). But for me, unfortunately, I'm not enjoying this game at all :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are many such games that are quite good in Steam. This is not one of them. It breaks my heart, because the art is very nice and the general idea is also clever, but ends up being just poorly developed. Puzzles are obscure and often made way harder than fun by the UI and often extend their welcome. It's not very expensive though, so maybe you can give it a try...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Havsala is a colorful point-and-click puzzler with some interesting historical references, classic art, and a bit of mysticism (tarot, astrology, etc.). The entire game takes place in a single room with straightforward puzzles and a raven to give you hints, as needed. The game auto-saves on exit but I do not believe partial progress on a puzzle is saved. Completionists will need to play through twice, as some achievements are mutually exclusive. If you are thorough your first time through,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a puzzle game that ranges from frustrating to easy. you have to read everything (it will be summarized) and trial and error your way through. i like the art style of the game.... but the game it self... dunno ....i just....i didnt get my self to like it. despite being short...i was more frustrated and want to get over it than entertained (im looking at you spinning circle puzzle). i am sure that the devs poured love into it... but it is a mild no for me. maybe get it on sale if you really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the artwork is excellent! The clarity of what to do with the puzzles is what I don't like.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't even give you a proper clue what the puzzle is supposed to be. Hint system is terrible. It is not playable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is very chill and good point and click
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the puzzles were interesting, some felt like the information in the game was misleading, and some puzzles were just figuring out that the item I got in the first 5 minutes of the game would be used an hour later on a puzzle that has no indication that I should use that item on that puzzle. The in game hints felt extremely necessary because sometimes I would just never have been able to figure out what items needed to interact with what parts of the room. A lot of the puzzles didn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I could give a neutral rating, I think I would. I like puzzles; this is a puzzle game. I don't mind reading lots of text; this game has lots of text. I like mythology and history; this game has lots of both. But this game is unrewardingly obscure in places. I finally gave in and followed a walkthrough. There were lots of steps that were "yes, that's obvious" but also quite a few steps that were "How did you get that instead of a dozen other equally plausible things?" Toward the end of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bir ruhun farklı bedenlerdeki yolculuğuna tanıklık ediyoruz sanatsal bir oyun yenür
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A beautiful puzzler with an intriguing story. The puzzles, while all tying in to the theme well, never felt repetitive, and were pleasantly amenable to trial-and-error solving. Interactions were easy as well - nothing frustrates me more than a puzzle-based game that nit-picks your clicks and motions to the point that you might miss a correct solve by being slightly imprecise with your cursor, and this did nothing of the kind. I did find myself wishing that it was a longer game - I was able to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The art is gorgeous. It makes you feel very sophisticated and deep, right up until the moment you realize you’ve been clicking on a vase for ten minutes hoping it’s a secret button. Unlike games where you just pull a lever, Havsala requires you to comb through diaries, scrolls, and ancient texts to find specific dates, symbols, or astronomical data needed to unlock the next area. I haven’t read this much since I accidentally opened the Terms and Conditions for a software update. If you like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't really enjoy this game. The art style was pretty, but the puzzles were a mix between ultra predictable and absolutely no clue. There is a hint feature, but using them didn't give answers that made you feel satisfied. Half the time I knew what the puzzle was getting at, but understanding the game mechanics of putting it together was difficult. The story also fell flat for me - felt like the developer was trying so hard to be philosophical but it just didn't come together in the end.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool art, decent puzzles. A LOT of reading (I think most of it is optional, and they give you cliff notes of the important stuff).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was refreshing and surprisingly deep. The riddles were not too hard and there is a hint system if you are truly stuck. I think i either bruteforced one or two riddles but it did not break the game or progression. Overall a good experience and perfect to just chill and wind down while playing. If you got the coin to spare then toss it to the small dev team and grab this short but sweet game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The extremes of this game's puzzle difficulties - ranging from blunt trial&error to cross-referencing in-game texts with assumed advanced knowledge of astrology - make this a difficult game to recommend. The graphics are lovely, the music is fine, the voice acting is acceptable. If the puzzle quality wasn't so all over the place this would be easier to recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe i'm just too dumb but the puzzles don't make sense to be. That's too bad because i really like the graphic style. Also, way too much books reading.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hard to describe why this game didn't do it for me. The art style is okay and the puzzles looked like they were going to be interesting but there was loads of pretty dull reading to do in order to get any sense of what the puzzles were about - which is okay if you enjoy that kind of thing but I wouldn't have bought it if I'd realised this. I didn't find it particularly logical even when I thought I'd found the info I needed in the text. The solutions to the puzzles still had a layer of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best games I've played - beautifully drawn and atmospheric. The puzzles are NOT too hard - just pleasingly tricky and the hints work fine. My only tiny niggle was that the English translation of the text could do with a proof read - only because it jars slightly with the perfection of the rest of the game. 100% worth playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I highly recommend this game, if you liked other games in the genre like the Rusty Lake series. Although the puzzles were a bit too dependent on reading texts for my liking, I found the general art style and a lot of the design choices phenomenal. Overall a good puzzle game with no flaws, if you have no problem with reading some texts.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a beautiful atmosphere, an immersive story telling, fun an interesting puzzles. Very authentic experience and definitely recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game first lost me at the abysmal opening narration. "I am the sexiest sexy woman and I love being sexy for men, but I'm also a supergenius who has studied everything and I will now list for you every -ology word the writers know, and also I'm going to keep repeating these facts over and over and over." It was bad fanfic. It reminded me of Phantom of Manhattan actually, in that way that a character can't just be special by virtue of being the protagonist, they have to be the specialest…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand why this game is so highly rated, i just couldn't really get into it. There is a lot of reading, a lot of information to consider and work into solutions, a lot of very different puzzles to get into. All of these are in and of itself positive traits of a game, here in combination it was overwhelming for me. I did enjoy some aspects of Havsala that were more decorative, for example the different art print books you can look through and historical references but they didn't manage…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you never played games with a lot of riddles before, maybe start with another one and if you don't like them at all, don't even blink in this direction. I personally enjoyed it very much - finally my dusty brain cells had to do some work and not just connect the dots on standby. The raven is a lovely detail for hints and if you're stuck, do yourself a favor and feed it. In the beginning I didn't get, that I could turn around, so yeah... that. Glad my feathery friend could explane to me,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The constant ginormous wall of text that I need to get through to get a glimpse of the next task makes my whole experience very unenjoyable. I almost gave up couple time playing it as it was very frustrating If those does not affect you, the game itself hold a well researched story and pretty art.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puzzles are way too obtuse. This is a point-and-click puzzle game from a few decade2 ago, gameplay wise frustrating and boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good point and click puzzle game. Got exactly what I expected
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really loved the story, the visuals, and the music. I never got bored while solving the puzzles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's a unique little pnc. The English script is ROUGH, which doesn't help with the many riddles thrown in throughout the game. That said, the hint system is pretty generous and gives you a strong push in the right direction, so it kind of balances out. Only recommend for people that really like pnc's.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont play if youre dumb like me and cant figure anything out. Cool game though
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad game, but I expected it to soothe my nerves as opposed to requiring moon logic and outside help right from the get go without really grabbing my attention to be fair. I do like the art style and the atmosphere. But it requires lots of patience and attention. The guide (raven) could be a lot better (basically useless as of now), the main character annoying, but to begin with I was not the target for this game I am sure. I got it in a bundle, it is fine.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very boring game with cliche puzzles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really enjoyed playing this. It's a smart puzzle game with history, astrology, alchemy, mythology, art, spirituality and philosophy. I found it very interesting to just read the books and the story. The puzzles are fun and I had a great time streaming it. Also loved the art style and the music. Very enjoyable experience overall.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Havsala is a point and click puzzle game with a great back story. Puzzles are hard but not impossible, you need to use your brain to solve them. I really suggest to read all books for extra backstory information. Good indie game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Comfy little puzzle game, solid intermediate difficulty for puzzle game lovers (vibes like The Room but in shorter and more story) I would not recommend it for a beginner that just wants an easy short game, as some of the puzzles require a way of thinking that does not come easy to someone that isn't used to these kinds of games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely one of my favourites. I love mythology, mysticism, spirituality and things similar to that. And it is unfortunately extremely rare to come across a game where these elements are integrated accurately. However, this game manages to achieve that. If you're a pagan, you would absolutely love this game. It is mainly an information based puzzle game. There aren't any misinformation, at least non that I noticed. There are things I haven't heard of and researched thanks to the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I always struggle with games like this and I think a lot of games in this genre struggle with finding a balance between reasonably challenging and just downright stupid. This game on the other hand, found that balance. Would definitely recommend it. Perfect level of difficulty and I enjoyed learning about the history and different calendar systems especially. Very well done to the devs and everyone involved.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Havsala is a beautifully crafted game that stands out with its gorgeous hand-drawn visuals and a distinct artistic charm. The developers clearly poured love and detail into every corner of this relaxing yet mentally stimulating experience. While the game is short and soothing to play, the puzzles are surprisingly challenging and thoughtfully designed. The pacing is just right, letting you enjoy the atmosphere without rushing yourself at all. And of course the ability to feed a crow for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usually love games like this, but this one really frustrated me. Maybe I'm not reading everything enough and missing some clues but I feel the puzzles are very arbitrary and too much based on trial and error. When you fail, the start of puzzle cut scene or between scene get repetitive and grating. I'm sure the rest is clever and well thought out but I just can't stand feeling overly lost and the satisfaction of the puzzle is not worth the feeling of everything being disjointed and just beyond…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review is specially made for those who like to get all the achievements in games (minor spoilers ahead). Description: Havsala: Into the Soul Palace is an indie P&C puzzle game that takes place inside a room filled with books, strange objects and secrets you need to uncover. The objective is finding out when and where three historical figures from different eras died, and to do this you need to read books and solve puzzles, which requires finding hidden objects, using logic and listening…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This developer supports Israel . Free Palestine 🇵🇸
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice, albeit short, puzzle game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic puzzles that sure require a pen and paper beside you, a crow that gives hints in exchange for nuts in case you get stuck and a lovely mix of reality and unreality for everyone who loves a bit of history in their game. Absolutely would reccommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I stayed up all night to finish the puzzles, it was very entertaining and the soundtrack was very soothing. I only realised there was Turkish dub at the end when the credits rolled, that's a shame. I should play it in Turkish some other time...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ellerinize sağlık
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story line and the world was cleverly built. As you explore different diaries the narrative of the game gets even better. There were a lot of genius sentences, quotes, writings that made me sit in front the screen and made me want to continue playing game. The puzzles are unique and challenging. The game does a great job in explaining what the mental standing of different people with the same soul trapped in a room for endless lifetimes would become. 10/10 WOULD ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND!!!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The atmosphere is FANTASTIC, and the voice actors did a great job, it's a great point of click game involved with history and mythology (all the information you need is given to you in books so don't worry if you're not great with history) , it's really rewarding and the achievements are fairly easy to get, the game is really thought out and well worth the price AND your time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, thank you for your effort. But, hayır flüt göndermesini anlamadım :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First time i used all three of my brain cells at the same time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →doesn't work with proton play. are you planning to release SteamOS or Linux version of Havsala or at least Proton compatible.
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