Renoir Reviews

I bought Renoir on sale, especially because it was affordable and for the sake of its visual style. On my first try I did not enjoy the controls and uninstalled the game, only to return back to it three years later. Well, this has been a enjoyable experience for me. Theme music, voice acting, cutscenes, the story and puzzles were all quite decent. I played it with patience, a few levels each day, well you need patience because the characters you control walk, run and climb rather slowly and on certain levels you need to try many times. The criticisms towards the clunky controls is right. I configured the controller by myself on Steam and still, for instance, even grabbing a ladder or entering a door required precision. All in all, except poor controls Renoir has been real fun for me.

I can definitely recommend this game. Good art direction, remarkable noir implementation, interesting gameplay mechanics and characters together make an excellent atmosphere of a noir thriller. Nice choice for its price!

A fairly simple puzzle game in the vein of SWAPPER with a traditional noir whodunit story--no surprises here. There were really about 3 puzzles that got me stuck for a while but otherwise not very difficult. I feel like these graphics could've been used to better effect for a point-and-click adventure but still, not a bad little game.

This game is really frustrating. It has the potential to be so good! It relies on reaction time but the buttons are soooo slow. And the instructions aren't clear. I kept mappying my "ghosts" incorrectly and in an effort to reset them, I went back to the start of the level and lost all my data so far. I just gave up. It's not that it's hard, moreso tedious and if you make a small mistake you start over. There doesn't seem to be any big payout from getting through the levels either to motivate you. It's a good idea but would work better mapped to a controller. Annoying AF

interesting concept but the gameplay is atrocious and repetitive. you can get everything you need from watching a cutscene compilation on youtube.

The game looks better than it is. The controls are terrible. The player can control other ghosts without any explanation, light "kills" you without any explanation. The puzzes are "just there" without any rhyme or reason. It just feels like a collection of puzzles with a noir graphics style.

Renoir is an afterlife noir themed puzzle platformer that could be considered the lovechild of The Swapper and The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. The puzzle mechanic relies on recording actions for a level specific set of ghosts which in turn have to help navigate the protagonist through deadly sources of light and around obstacles. While sounding basic at first, the game requires both planning, timing as well as some thinking around the corner. The art design and soundtrack are amazing, the puzzles themselves ore both intuitive as well as creative. Only the story is mildly on the light side, but considering all the other outstanding features, Renoir is a bonafide puzzle game and ranges among the better half of them. With about 7 hours of playtime for one playthrough it also has more than enough depth to justify its asking price.

Played for about an hour and so far so good. The controls are a little bit unresponsive, but this is not an action platformer, it's a puzzle adventure. It's basically about a ghost detective who can't touch light (for some reason). You need to control other ghosts using quite unique gameplay mechanic - you basically record a "replay" for every character on screen, one by one. Then you press the play button and all characters will start moving at the same time. So you need to think ahead and synchronize everything. I hope there will be more story in the game, but so far so good.

This game is going to be hit or miss for a lot of people, but if you're as enthusiastic about Film Noir as I am, you will almost certainly enjoy it. You play the ghost of Detective James Renoir, who spends a dark, rainy night retracing his last steps in the hopes of catching his killer. This is done by solving light based puzzles in each area with the help of other ghosts that Renoir is (somehow) able to manipulate. I admit, I'm more into this game for its aesthetics and story more than its gameplay, but I did appreciate and enjoy the puzzles that required actual forethought and synchronization. Negatives: -- Lack of puzzle variety -- Controls can be awkward sometimes -- All ghosts are male and look exactly the same -- It's never explained why light is harmful or how/why Renoir can control ghosts Positives: -- Classic Film Noir -- Stellar soundtrack and visuals -- A wonderful mystery story -- Interesting characters -- Creative gameplay mechanic My love of Film Noir wins out, and at $9.99 the game is definitely worth playing to appreciate its visuals and story. I'm glad I picked it up.

While I like the setting and the style (Film noir? Yes please!), the game is ruined by a very unresponsive movement system, it just feels clunky and that is no fun at all considering this is a (puzzle) platformer.