Puzzle your way through an eerie hotel in The Spectrum Retreat, releasing on PS4 July 10th.

Dan Smith, developer, designer, and lead "Dan Smith" at Dan Smith Games, announced the coming release of his new game The Spectrum Retreat with a recent post on The PlayStation Blog. According to the post, Smith has been working on this game since he was 15 years old (though we have no indication how old he is now, we have to assume that 15 was a while ago). After years of work, and a publishing deal with Ripstone, the game is now ready for prime-time.

The Spectrum Retreat is a slick-looking puzzle title that takes place in the mysterious Penrose hotel. Though Smith is keeping mum about the story, it seems pretty clear from the trailer and accompanying screenshots that individual rooms in the hotel hold environmental puzzles that involve pattern recognition and color manipulation. Smith promises to introduce new puzzle elements to the player organically through play and exploration, trying to avoid slowing down the action for tutorials.

I love the look and feel of this trailer. I don’t know about you, but I immediately felt that the pattern on the face of the creepy white-headed character will come into play somewhere along the line. We can all find out together on July 10, I suppose.

The Spectrum Retreat is available right now for the extremely reasonable price of $12.99, with PS Plus members getting a 10% discount. Folks that pre-order will also receive a free PS4 theme, which is always nice. Getting pretty sick of that Jessica Jones theme I've been rocking for the last two years.