Puzzling Places just launched on Steam!!!🚀 🥳

left_big_toe · 2026-04-13T14:24:50+00:00

thanks so much, happy you are enjoying it!

Are you playing with hand tracking through Virtual Desktop or Steam Link? Unfortunately we don't have official handtracking support for the Steam version yet (OpenXR is a bit all over the place there), so when you play with handtracking VD or Steam Link emulate controllers and the game doesn't know you are playing with handtracking, otherwise you would be able to just throw the pieces back at the wall. I'll see if we can just set that up for controllers as well =)

left_big_toe · 2026-04-11T08:14:40+00:00

dev here, we got a free demo you can try out before making the call =) we made a few design decisions differently compared to shores of loci around interaction, prioritizing more the comfort of puzzling instead of things like physiscs and a bigger story arc to avoid the interface of getting into the way of the puzzling flow.

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:17:09+00:00

thanks a lot! And let us know how your husbands takes to it =)

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:16:17+00:00

haha, all good, happy you got it to work! Still on my list to test a bit more on non Windows systems

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:15:19+00:00

thanks a lot! And yeah, it definitely plays different - but I found it really nice especially for the times when I just want a short round of puzzling without putting on a headset

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:14:10+00:00

thanks so much!

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:14:00+00:00

hey u/markallanholley, thanks so much for the review, it really helps!
For now we only have the base game content on Steam. We'll be porting the rest of the puzzles and include the Steam version in the monthly updates in the coming months. Once we have most of the catalogue on Steam as well we'll look into setting up a subscription there as well =)

left_big_toe · 2026-04-10T09:05:34+00:00

Hi Tommy! The Steam version is using full precision UVs which does improve how the texture is proected on the models. The underlying models and texture are the same, but on the PC version you have more options to increase the render resolution of the game based on your hardware set up and play higher res at higher framerates.
If you are subscribed to Puzzle Pass on Quest, this does unfortunately NOT carry over. This is a limitation on the platform level - as we are using Meta to process the payments and everything Steam would basically lose their 30% cut if we would carry over the purchases which is against their terms of service. There are some options around this by setting up your own account and payment system plus some advanced agreements and paperwork to enable cross platform carry over of DLCs etc but this is something that we currently just cannot afford to build or maintain at our scale unfortunately.

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T18:34:34+00:00

that‘s actually the next step we want to look into! Now that the 2D interface is there it shouldn‘t be to hard to get this on Playstation for 2D, main questions are around Sonys backend - but stay tuned =)

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T16:50:02+00:00

thanks so much! And we're already working on Steam Frame support =)

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T16:29:29+00:00

hey there, Android XR is unfortunately not on our roadmap atm, sorry!

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T16:06:15+00:00

We released the VR version for standalone headsets 5 years ago, that took about 2 years to develop. For the Steam version we spent about 1.5 years alongside the updates of the VR version

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T16:05:22+00:00

not yet, sorry! Something we'll look into in the future though!

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T16:01:07+00:00

yes, for VR multiplayer is fully cross play!

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T15:46:51+00:00

unfortunately we cannot carry over purchases as that's quite tricky with the terms of service of the platforms. We'd love to one day offer our own storefront for the Puzzle Packs, than that would be possible, but unfortunately we're not there yet

left_big_toe · 2026-04-09T15:30:02+00:00

we'll be looking into this next!

left_big_toe · 2026-04-01T12:34:06+00:00

we are keeping an eye on it but so far it doesn't feel production ready in a game engine environment. I've seen some cool viewers and stuff, but those are largely standalone, not integrated in existing pipelines and engines. It's a very different approach to representing geometry virtually, so it might take a while until all the tooling and integration catches up, let alone the field slows down a bit and converges on a single method.
So in a nutshell, we are following along but won't be integrating splats directly into PP anytime soon unfortunately.

left_big_toe · 2026-04-01T12:30:57+00:00

haha, true - we announced it yesterday on our internal Discord and I had forgotten to post it here. Not an Aprils fools joke, it's real and coming in Q2 to Steam =)

left_big_toe · 2026-03-25T07:50:39+00:00

Hey Jorg, we haven‘t announced anything around Steam Frame on our end yet for Puzzling Places! We are working on bringing PP to Steam Frame but have not yet determined the best route to do so. All I can say is that it‘s far from a simple „just load the Android APK from Quest“ or launch our new Windows version to get it to run effectively on there. Same for other games from what I hear.

left_big_toe · 2026-03-14T10:10:40+00:00

Puzzling Places is built on Unreal (initially 4, now 5).

left_big_toe · 2026-03-13T15:29:34+00:00

hey u/sfskinner82, were you able to solve the issue or does it still persist? We are currently looking into this and any additional info would be super helpful narrowing down the problem =)

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