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LEAVES - The Return
Developer ZAR 21
Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way. From the Steam store page
163 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Oct 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
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143 positive · 20 negative
95% range 82–92%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
379 of 445 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 163 · most liked firstThis second Leaves game is just as delightful as the first. While the structure/objectives are the same, the scenery and puzzles are different and it is a very nice way to continue enjoying the world of Leaves. If you are a fan of whimsical puzzles, you should not miss this one!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked this game. If you are fond of indie or point and click games this product is for you. You will find lots of puzzles to solve and riddles to settle. During several hours you wont be bored, the rich gameplay throws you in the magic world of Leaves. This game reminds me famous Samorost 3 Recommend to every indie game lover Here you can check First look and first part of the gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iWpWy2EH6o
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MY RATING: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ✘ ✘ ✘ 7 / 10 The sequel to [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/569800/]LEAVES – The Journey and again the Treefruities are in trouble... .. why does the tree have to sneeze and lose its leaves again? As in the first part, this challenging point & click puzzle game takes place in a, but this time different, surreal and artistically designed world. Again on the search for the lost leaves, there are quite a few new and again quite challenging puzzles to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a great puzzle. the essence of the game is to solve all the riddles and collect all the leaves
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tree has lost all its leaves. Let's help find the leaves while traveling through a surreal world full of aesthetic delights. 🍃🍃
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a game breaking bug in this game at the Hanoi puzzle that the developer has never addressed, in spite of repeated requests. For this reason alone i will not recommend unfortunately
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Playtime: 2.3h (100% achievement, finished the game) Grindy Achievement(s): No. Optional Achievement(s): Yes (6 achievements). Difficult Achievement(s): No. Intro LEAVES - The Return is a point-and-click game with puzzle solving as a focus. It's the second installment of the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2887/LEAVES__The_Bundle/]LEAVES series with the same gameplay. Since it doesn't have any notable stories, you can jump right to the second series without any issue. Pros: -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A sequel to LEAVES - The Journey which reuses a lot of content and has the same drawbacks as the original: clunky UI, a lot of unnesessary travelling (why can't you just travel to already visited locations via the map which is in the game?), and some pretty boring puzzles like the crossword with numbers that require only patience, not wits. Overall, the game is not bad, but it's not great either. You can get it on sale along with The Journey, but I don't think this 3 hr game is worth it's full…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't give you any controls. No hints on wtf the puzzles are supposed to do. No keys to follow. You just end up clinking aimlessly. Menus pop up sometimes but not others and u have no clue how to call them back. Stupidest game ever
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like the first game this one is full of bugs which bring you to the point where you have to restart the game. In one puzzle a piece was so buggy that it turned white and I couldn't move it anymore. I recommend to save just after and/or before every puzzle. But on different save files, because they can be buggy aswell. I had to restart the game several times. Also I never found out why I am doing what I am doing. It's like they had ideas for puzzles and wantrd to put them into something…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nope, that's not the way to go. This is just a ripoff of the first part. Zero story, much more linear with a lot of backtracking, studded with idiotic puzzles, of which many of are "copy this pattern" ones.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty cool puzzle game. LEAVES The Return 8/10 Heisen
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LEAVES - The Return the second of the LEAVES point and click puzzle/adventure games with a whimsical, esoteric theme not unlike Samorost. You click around a mysterious forest full of strange creatures and statues solving somewhat simple puzzles based on clues you can collect on leaves. I think there's some kind of niche for these games, but the quality of this game in terms of implementation can't be saved by the intriguing theme and artwork. This sequel is very much a copy + paste of LEAVES…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite a good little PnC puzzle game. But it was more fun the first hour or two, and got a bit tedious towards the end of the game. Mainly because of the very long distances you have to travel back and forth, and confusing pathways. Stylewise visually it reminded me a bit of Samorost, but Samorost I found more enjoyable - as each main area was more self-contained, and avoided all that boring back-and-forth. The in-game map helps, and there's a Tips function in main menu also (behind a quite…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely amazing and I highly recomend it if you are interested in puzzle games that will have you tinkering and thinking. I also recorded the gameplay since I found that it was such an amazing game and concept I wanted to record it for others to view as well. Here is the video link and I hope you enjoy the game as much as I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDAg5_NGITk
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kq4OtRsdXls&pp=ygUTRGVzdGluYXRpb24gdW5rbm93bg%3D%3D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game suffers the same issues as the first. There are some unique puzzles, but most of them are stupid hard to solve. Like "open a guide or die" hard. It does look a bit nicer in my opinion and the paths aren't quite as long and windy, which is cool. It feels a bit more put together map-wise. There's pretty much no story whatsoever, same as the first
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely worse than the first part, for me. There's more going back and forth between locations, especially with the bird puzzle- you have to type in paths over and over again to go back to certain places which is very annoying and unnecessary. I had a feeling that some of the puzzles were not very well hinted, rather - go try everything 1000 times until you figure this out or watch YT for help. The inside-game hint puzzle (i mean hints were you filled one puzzle and your "prize" is a hint,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://cthulhuscritiques.com/2018/11/20/video-game-review-leaves-the-return/]Link to Full Review Major Pros: Diverse puzzles Minor Pros: Strange hidden characters to find Wordless storytelling Major Cons: Tedious movement Minor Cons: Memorization Short
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LEAVES - The Return has some different puzzles than the first game, but there are a lot of reused assets. It's still a an awesome puzzle adventure, but it's almost like playing more of the first game. They were great the first time around, but dang couldn't the developers come up with some other content. It would have been a lot better if all of the inhabitants weren't all the same, the end puzzle wasn't exactly the same, and a few other puzzles weren't almost indentical to LEAVES - The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fabulous! puzzles are whacky and whimsical for the most part. artwork is a visual panolpy of joy. music to dream to. i liked that the help button (esc. key) requires a little puzzle to open and that the help is not direct and overt. i liked the different rhythms to the puzzles, some were quirky and easy, others were tedious, some goofy and fun, you get the idea. i liked that it mirrored Leaves (I) somewhat but differed in key areas. Having felt the vibe of Leaves did help direct some of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A worthy successor to the first Leaves. If you liked it, you will be entertained by this one, although this successor borrows heavily from its big brother.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like leaves 1 this sports a nice range of various puzzles. However I cannot recommend this as it feels like an inferior game to the first. This game is having more backtracking, some puzzles that must be repeated to traverse. Also there are some none obvious interactibles, two of whom caused some frustration.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LEAVES – The Return is a delicate, dreamlike puzzle adventure that embraces an entirely handcrafted sensibility, inviting players into a world that feels less like a traditional video game and more like a living art installation. Developed by ZAR 21 and published by Daedalic Entertainment, the experience continues the surreal journey begun in LEAVES – The Journey, bringing players once again to the strange land of the Treefruities, whimsical forest creatures whose home has lost its precious…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was an awesome experience and a very delicious meal for my brain, I highly recommend for people who like abstract artsyle/worlds, puzzles & point and click games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Less areas than the first game, some repeated backgrounds and puzzles from the first game as well. Shorter and even less remarkable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →╱▔▔▔▔▔╲ ╱ ╱▔╲╲╲▏ ╱ ╱━╱▔▔▔▔▔╲━╮ ▏ ▕┃▕╱▔╲╱▔╲▕╮┃ ▏ ▕╰━▏▊▕▕▋▕▕━╯ ╲ ╲╱▔╭╮▔▔┳╲╲ ╲ ▏╭━━━━╯▕▕ ╲ ╲▂▂▂▂▂▂╱╱ ▏┊ ┊ ╲ ▏┊ ┊▕╲ ╲ ╱▔╲▏┊ ┊▕╱▔╲▕ ▏ ╰┈┈┈┈╯ ▕▕ ╲ ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ▕▔▔▔▔▏ ╱╲╲╲▏ ╱▔ ▕ ▏ ▔╲▔▔ ╲▂▂▂╱ ╲▂▂▂╱
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice little puzzle game presented in Surrealism art style. Kinda reminds me of Botanica or Samorost by Amanita. But they do have their own art style here and the puzzles are pretty nice in difficulty (bout level 5~6). Basically you have to spot or find the clues and use the clues to solve the puzzles, so it's more on the spotting than solving most of the time, like those hidden object games. This is the 2nd game, a sequel, with some of the ideas and art work reused from the 1st game. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →an interesting looking 2D point n click game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really fun point and click puzzle game. It is also really easy to complete and if you struggle with any part of the game, you can always get a guide to help you complete a puzzle. The art style and imagination that went into this game is just insanely awesome!! I would recommend this game to everyone. LOVED IT!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you made it through the first game and liked it, then you might as well get this one too!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I worked for days on a puzzle. I finally solved it, and then it didn't give me the red bean. Well, can't continue to go on without the red bean. I'm totally insane with anger. Just kick me in the teeth next time, I'll feel better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just like the first "Leaves" this game is also lovely. Puzzles are challenging, artwork is in a style I very much enjoy and music is relaxing. Thanks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute and whimsical, like the first Leaves. Finding the inhabitants is still a high point and the entire world is beautifully crafted. There is a lot of backtracking so this is best for gamers with patience who don't mind a non-linear path and some confusion. If you like the art-style shown you will no doubt enjoy this little world.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"LEAVES - The Return," is almost exactly like its predecessor. "LEAVES - The Journey." It looks, feels, sounds, and acts just like that game. It even re-uses several settings. The puzzles, of course, are different (and a couple were even harder than the those in the earlier game) though they're of the same type. Even the length of the game is the same (7.1 hours for me to complete it with 100% Achievement -- from the previous game, I knew there was an Achievement for completing the game in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The sequel to LEAVES: The Journey, a difficult puzzle game superimposed on evocative dadaist art. If you enjoyed the first one, you will definitely enjoy this, too. However, keep your expectations a bit low: the story is exactly the same, some of the core puzzles are the same, and the game engine is the same (including its awkward user interface). Really, this plays like a fan mod of the first LEAVES games more than a sequel. But this might be the wrong kind of complaint for a game focused on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still a good game, different puzzles. If you bought the first one then you will be dissapointed with this sequel. They just copied a lot from the first game and used a couple of photos when they should have been creating a whole new experience. Still fun, just not as much.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another fantastic LEAVES game! More like these, please :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I purchased the first game and am halfway through the challenging puzzles. So when this second part came out I just had to buy it. Both the games are very well thought out and have beautiful artistic graphics. They certainly keep you both amused and baffled at the same time. I dont normaly play puzzle games but the artistic work with these games are just outstanding and very pleasing to the eye. Watch me play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v93eCVHUzs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful artwork, challenging puzzles (at times a bit maddening)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like its predecessor "Leaves - The journey" this is a beautiful, atmospheric puzzle game with very good puzzles. Will without walkthrough take probably on the order of 8 hours each. On sale they're outrageously cheap, so grab them together: pretty much "hidden" gems and much recommended. Do use your GPU driver to limit FPS to e.g. 60 lest the game happily renders hundreds or even thousands of frames per second; it does not support vsync.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You get a monocle. I didn't find many hidden things with it, but I felt significantly more sophisticated while failing to solve the puzzles. I am now considering wearing one to the grocery store.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2nd Leaves game, and once again the pink fuzzies have lost their leaves because their tree has a cold and sneezed. Point and click, walking simulator with abstract art and oblique, if not obtuse puzzles. Either my puzzle brain is very rusty or this game is much harder than the first Leaves games. Still fun but quite the challenge. Like the first game there are no instructions for game play, hidden entities to find, leaves to gather, and an end game match the picture to the various objects found…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzle adventure game with a small bit of hidden object hunting. Puzzle difficulties range from easy to above average. Nothing overwhelmingly challenging, but there are a couple tedious ones.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately just as the first game: Unbelievably beautiful, unbelievably illogical, frustrating mechanics, infuriating logic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this game improves on the first in having better puzzles and less backtracking. There are some additional bits of text to help new players with the basics of navigation that the first game did not have. A lot of the same cons have returned. There's still a lot of excessive clicking, tough not as much as the first game. The worst aspect of this game, just like the first, is the technical performance. There is no way in the options to limit the frame rate. If you have a modern-ish…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stars received: 2.1/10 _ Note: v.6 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.3] Controls & Training & Help [0.2] Menu & Settings [0.3] Sound & Music [0.3] Graphics [0.3] Game Design [0.2] Game Story [0.4] Game Content [0.1] Completion time (level/game)? is it Enjoyable & Fun? Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) BONUS point: Multi-Player related BONUS point: Review for VR - if Registration is required with providing PII [Yes = maybe] - is it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Meh rating, not a hard no but not a yes either. The problem I have with the sequel is that the issues from the first game are still here and ready to annoy you along the way. Transition-arrows leading from one screen to another again disappear, trying to open the inventory while solving a puzzle can and *will* exit the puzzle, etc. On top of that, the last (and probably the most annoying) puzzle is recycled from the first game. I haven't encountered the infamous bug others mentioned but that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exactly the same as LEAVES – The Journey. It's basically an expansion pack. Nothing was improved, not even the slow and clumsy UI.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A horrible attempt at making a Amanita Design style game. The art style is uninspired at best and gives the impression that the devs didn't have any direction or concept in mind, just photoshoping what ever image they find on the internet. The puzzles are impossible to comprehend because of the game giving you only vague hints. In the conclusion just don't waste your money or time on this. 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The puzzles here ran the gamut. The starting ones were extremely easy, but the quickly turned to essays in memorization. Plan on having screenshots of clues given up next to the game to solve about half the puzzles. One, out-of-nowhere, involved a number crossword that was much harder than the puzzles before it. And at least for me, too tough to be fun. In many places, a poor understanding of puzzle conventions made this less fun than it could have been. Lack of feedback and lack of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid short puzzle game. Very similar to the first one, and just as good. The inhabitants are the same, the puzzles are mostly new. It took 3 hours for a no-help playthrough in one sitting (all achievements) with a friend. Recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very pretty and immersive game with challenging puzzles that have a good logical progression. The music and sound effects add dimension to the characters. The story line is simple, but there are leaves and inhabitants to collect. The intuitive approach to the puzzles could be difficult but there is a hint system and other players willing to help you along.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a beautiful song that is sung every day When the wind and the leaves play together, And I hear the sweet notes as I wander along, From my low cottage home to the heather. And I fain would express the sweet sentiment there, The sweet songs of love and devotion, When the wind sighs to stay but must go on its way On its journey to the land and the ocean.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the first installment of Leaves, this is a small puzzle game about a tree who lost its leaves. Again :) Could as well copy the review from the previous game since this is just about the same game. Same style of graphics, same world. Even the exact same 'habitants'. They did change up the environments a bit of course. You'd recognize a few scenes from the previous game but most of it is new. And so are the puzzles. As with the previoius game, these puzzles include finding combinations…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Challenging and original puzzles and excellent atmosphere
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked the first game 'LEAVES - The Journey' then you will probably love this sequel. I had mixed feelings about the first game but I think I enjoyed this one a little more. The graphics are the same as the first game with somewhat odd looking backgrounds and characters that look somewhat like a surreal Monty Python but not nearly as comedic. The sound is minimalist. Mostly you hear little pings and clicks when you collect things or solve puzzles but there are some background noises…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mind challenging but awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Some things are literal exact copies from the first game, but all but one ofthe puzzles are new, and they are just as challenging as the first one. Worth a play if you liked Leaves 1.
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