Lethe - Episode One on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Lethe is a first person adventure with survival horror elements. Explore an atmospheric and frightening world and uncover the dark secrets of your origins.

Lethe - Episode One is a adventure, action and indie game developed by KoukouStudios and Faber Interactive and published by Faber Interactive.
Released on August 01st 2016 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 381 reviews of which 323 were positive and 58 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Lethe - Episode One into these genres:

Adventure Action Indie Horror Atmospheric First-Person Survival Puzzle

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)
Processor: 2.0+ GHz Dual Core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB VRAM and Shader Model 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Not a bad game. I enjoy the exploration and atmosphere. Not really liking the whole hiding and being chased. Does not have a borderless window option. The story is engaging. What gets me is the creepy atmosphere even with aging graphics.

Feb. 2025

it's... pretty alright. doesn't look like there will ever be a chapter two. it has a lot of inspiration from the penumbra games. story and mechanics are cool. I had a hard time with objects being stuck/in the way with the telekinesis system. and also the level design made it sort of unclear where to go, i often found myself choosing a random path from multiple options only to irreversibly progress. I'd only buy it on sale

Oct. 2024

had this game a few years now. Decided to give it another airing.Got a new laptop with windows 11.Would not load up. I dug out my old laptop and it works fine on windows 10. Great game .Worth a go. Pity it"s been abandoned.

Aug. 2024

Just finished this on my Youtube channel (link at end of review for anyone who wants to see a gameplay sample before buying), and overall I thought this was a decent horror game. What is unfortunate is that apparently Lethe Episode One was meant to be the first in a series of games, but sadly said series got cancelled and as such there's never been an Episode Two. But nonetheless, Episode One is worth picking up and playing! Other people have mentioned it already, but you can definitely see the Amnesia inspirations underpinning this game. In many ways, Lethe is very similar - first-person perspective, exploring dark, sinister environments, finding notes and solving basic puzzles, and using stealth to avoid dangerous monsters. So if you enjoyed the gameplay of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and are looking for games with a similar vibe, chances are you'll probably enjoy Lethe as well. The basic premise is that you play as a man searching for answers about his own identity, and you are washed up on a strange shore after your boat is wrecked somewhere on the Greek coast. Soon you discover that this stretch of shore and the old mining facility located there are eerily devoid of any life. Cue a story that unfolds about sinister scientific experiments, where the ancient Greek folklore that the game is based upon (Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion in the underworld) ties in thematically with what is going on. The visuals are fine and hold up well, as does the sound design. In terms of atmosphere, the game definitely has its moments of general creepiness, especially when you're wandering through dark, claustrophobic tunnels and passages, figuring out puzzles whilst keeping an eye out for whatever creepy entity stalks the place. The gameplay is nothing special, I would argue, but it does function well and is pretty solid. Lethe does have a gimmick of its own: not far into the game, you unlock the power of telekinesis, enabling you to pick up, manipulate and throw props in your environment. In essence, this is much like the ability to pick up and throw objects in Amnesia, just with a few more possibilities (e.g. being able to pick up and move objects behind fences up to a certain distance). Again, nothing special - but it works well enough. Overall, the game was fairly well-made; I didn't encounter any bugs or glitches. In terms of length, Lethe isn't very long - I completed it in about 4-5 hours. In terms of difficulty, the game's puzzles are decently challenging without being overly difficult - usually, where I struggled it was more a case of me not engaging my brain properly rather than the game being too hard. So, in summary, Lethe - Episode One is a decent horror game and is well worth a shot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JxvML6NBgY&list=PL05Yc3_TEBpOUe2U3htHoHeuphtvV6_fx&index=1

July 2024

Lethe was a cool, atmospheric, dingy, first person puzzle game that was pretty fun to go through. Only took 3 hours on my first playthrough and while it had "horror" elements and some chase sequences, the horror was nicely placed and never felt out of place. There weren't any jumpscares or cheap tricks and everything wrapped up in a nice bow. A lot of this games story is in the form of notes to collect but its never too much text that you TLDR. Only issue I had with the game is on the very last level, where you need to toss a certain item above a gate to get it into an unaccessable room, which WAS a thing you could do in previous part of the game, but the gate you throw the item over doesn't look the same as the others and therefore does look as if anything can fit into the gap to proceed. Other than that one hiccup though, I got this game real cheap on sale, everything else made sense and I had a good time playing this game. 7/10

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13.99€

7.9

323

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Developer

KoukouStudios, Faber Interactive

Publisher

Faber Interactive

Release 01 Aug 2016

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