Enter The House of Da Vinci, a new must-try 3D puzzle adventure game. Solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, escape from rooms and dive into the authentic atmosphere of the Renaissance. Use all your wits to find out what's behind your master's disappearance.
• KEY FEATURES •
SOLVE MECHANICAL PUZZLES
Brain twisters and baffling riddles are all based on Leonardo’s inventions.
ENJOY INTUITIVE TOUCH CONTROL
Navigate Leonardo’s workshop intuitively. Playing the game couldn’t be more fun.
EXPERIENCE THE RENAISSANCE
War machines, complex lockboxes, mechanical puzzles, room escapes will all test your skills.
MASTER UNIQUE MECHANICS
Detect hidden objects by seeing through the surfaces around you.
PEEK INTO THE PAST
An unusual gauntlet allows you to witness events that happened earlier, and learn more of the story.
• WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND THE HOUSE OF DA VINCI? •
You are Da Vinci’s most promising apprentice. Your master, Leonardo, has disappeared. You have no idea where he’s gone or what has happened. So you begin your quest, your search for the truth. However, Leonardo's workshop is full of puzzles, inventions, escape mechanisms and objects hidden in all corners of beautifully decorated rooms. You’ll need to use all of your brain cells to find out what’s really going on!
We’ve applied our own imagination to the story of the world’s greatest inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, providing players with unique special abilities throughout gameplay. We allow you to warp back into your early days as a young apprentice, exploring the 16th century world around you, peeking into Leonardo’s mechanisms, puzzles and devices, as you eventually become powerful enough to control time itself and learn the secrets hidden in the past.
Many challenging puzzles are inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's real inventions and ideas. Mysterious locations were created based on original artworks and the wonderful Florence, Italy of 1506.
• LIKE THE HOUSE OF DA VINCI ON FACEBOOK •
https://www.facebook.com/thehouseofdavinci
• FEEDBACK AND SUPPORT •
For any feedback or support questions please do not hesitate to contact us at davinci@bluebraingames.com
• MORE INFORMATION •
Find out more about the game on http://www.thehouseofdavinci.com/.
• LANGUAGES•
The House of Da Vinci is now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Hindi and Malay.
• WHO ARE WE? •
Blue Brain Games is an enthusiastic indie team of graphic artists and developers, all of whom are fans of both 3D puzzle games and the renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci. The House of Da Vinci was successfully funded on Kickstarter in late 2016. Install the game now and join over 2.391 adventure game enthusiasts that backed The House of Da Vinci!
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v1.1.0
Apple
released 6/17/2020
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- Minor bug fixes.
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Apple
2mo ago
Entertaining and good way to pass the time
Fun puzzles but some things to find were obscure. To be fair I would have gaps in my playing time and I would forget to use the tools available. Overall I would say it was fun and made me think which is why I play puzzle games like this.
- HereInTenn · v1.1.0
Apple
2mo ago
Finicky
This game is so frustrating! If you don’t have your camera at the perfect angle, then many times items don’t work. Often I am doing exactly what people have said is the next step, like inserting a key, and the key won’t go in the slot. Also, the oculus doesn’t always work when it’s supposed to. I deleted the game and won’t be buying anything from Blue Brain again!
- Cassandra1999 · v1.1.0
Apple
3mo ago
Puzzlers Paradise!!
Loved this game none stop puzzles amazing graphics smooth transitions puzzles range from easy to difficult which made it more fun!!
- JDHand76 · v1.1.0
Apple
4mo ago
Should Have Bought Coffee Instead
Huge fan of The Room series and this one had promising reviews. Started out strong, by the mid point I was wishing I’d spent my $4 on a good cup of coffee instead. The puzzles are not intuitive, and most of them felt repetitive and a time waster rather than being challenging. Story was not engaging, on a whole the game just felt blah.
- Mander Mo · v1.1.0
Apple
4mo ago
Now What
I purchased it, but I can’t get into it…can’t start a profile. Why??
- Super Star App · v1.1.0
Apple
5mo ago
Amazing game
Game is so fun it keeps me entertained and engaged for hours on end. I strongly suggest to anyone who like puzzle game or solving puzzles.
- So effe · v1.1.0
Apple
5mo ago
Would have been five
The absolute best 3D game I’ve ever played (I have played a few). But you have to use the hints to know what was next. You would think it would go to the next but it didn’t.I don’t have a problem at all getting the hints, so once I understood that you had to play as they had set it up, I played that way,,, loved every minute of it. Will get House of Da Vinci 2 right now, can’t wait to get started. If you are thinking on this game don’t think, get it now.
- mom luck · v1.1.0
Apple
6mo ago
Good but…
Very good very challenging but my two issues on it are that one it is far too dark with no options to brighten it I get that that’s it’s vibe but I have horrible eyesight and glasses and I really struggled in the dark scenes I wish there was an option to toggle brightness/colors for people with eyesight issues Second thing was that some of the puzzles needed the hints and were next to impossible without them And some that I knew the answer to tried a dozen times and then had to wait for the last hint and suddenly it worked Idk if it’s a glitch or something but wish it was a bit more user friendly
- Kokuritu_Kobayushi · v1.1.0
Apple
6mo ago
Why did your company screw up a good game!
First time I played this game everything worked now it is screwed up. You do exactly right and it still doesn’t work.
- jhen3334 · v1.1.0
Apple
7mo ago
Great game
Puzzles are not perfect, not too easy or too hard
Very fair price
Not bogged down with storyline fluff.
You can read it all or none of it, it no doesn’t effect your experience.
Definitely worth downloading and playing
I’m going onto the next one.
Enjoy, I did!
- Everynicknameistaken. Xxxx · v1.1.0
Apple
7mo ago
Hasn’t aged well
The taps a controls are off. Along with that, prepare to need help. You will need the horrible and useless clues and you will need to cheat. Not nearly as good as the room.
- twigya · v1.1.0
Apple
7mo ago
Want to like the game but can’t
I wanted to enjoy this game after playing the room games. Game wants to be fun but has too many problems with it. First when playing on my phone the exit button is in the worst spot ever at the top left of the screen where I am constantly hitting it with my hand. So this will back you out of what you are doing. Second when you are trying to do a task when you are spinning something, or trying to hit a switch the game will think you double tapped and back you out of it again. Third some of the areas are so dark you can’t even see a button or something of importance. Finally some of the stuff you need to do they don’t have anything near to look at that would help you figure it out. They give you clues but some of the clues don’t help you at all. I am finding myself with this game compared to other similar games having to look at walkthroughs way to much.
- Osubucks1984 · v1.1.0
Apple
7mo ago
Pretty good
I was worried by some reviews, but I ended up liking this more than The Room series. Guess I’ll be playing the sequels.
- DigiZombis · v1.1.0
Apple
8mo ago
Do not buy
The glove icon never popped up. I walked through 6 different troubleshooting and nothing fixed it. I’m requested a refund and the apple store doesn’t authorize a refund on this game. Contacted Blue Brains themselves and they refuse too. It’s all scamming. Do not buy.
- NewhookA · v1.1.0
Apple
10mo ago
The perfect puzzle
It stays interesting, it’s challenging and thrilling. This game is a masterpiece!
- Bonitabgamer · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Obtuse and infuriating
Many of the puzzles are super arbitrary and not really puzzles at all. And don’t get me started on the infernal camera movements and having to incessantly zoom zoom zoom in and out.
- Smirk Snirggler · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Fun puzzle, hard game
There are a lot of interesting puzzles, but the clues were not very obvious what the next puzzle you need to solve next on some levels. There are not many hints in game to help solve puzzles without having to use the in game hint icon. Even when you ask for a hint, the hint is not helpful enough to push you along. Found myself brute forcing puzzles to move on.
- MidnightRaven · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Awesome game
This is a fun and beautiful game.
- Geodash74 · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Outstanding!
Great graphics, challenging puzzles, hours of intellectual problem solving fun!
- Shady Art Lady · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
For the order of justice
Giacomo using a oculi infinitum and templus with glove
- Brenden0623 · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Love this!
I’ve played this, the Rooms series, and similar games. This is by far my favorite. I love that it’s mysterious and exciting. The puzzles are well done and make sense. I like it better than rooms because rooms gets a little horror like sometimes and some of them were too much for me. This is the perfect balance.
- CloverJean · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Great art and good puzzles
I really enjoyed the artwork and all the detail in the sets and machines. The puzzles were good, too, getting more challenging as the game went on. The pattern got a little tiring of find a piece of something that lets you solve a puzzle to get a piece of something else, that lets you solve a puzzle to get a piece of something else… but I guess that’s how puzzle games work. There were a couple of times where it wasn’t possible to figure out what to do next logically, so I had to either poke at everything on the screen or just wait for the clue to point me in the right direction. It was fun, and I was never bored.
- gadgetgeek2 · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Great game!really fun.
This game is a fantastic game! It’s super fun has no ads and if you need help or you are stuck on a puzzle there is often a hint button on the top right side of the screen and if that doesn’t help then go to YouTube to figure it out! Some people often play this game all day and the best part is you can redo the game anytime you’d like!
- Daisy_mae_hehe · v1.1.0
Apple
1y ago
Quite interesting
This was a well thought puzzle game. Really enjoyed it. A few critiques from someone who plays these games frequently… the sensitivity of where you touch on the screen was sometimes really frustrating, as it kept pulling my iPhone menu down whenever I touched the top of the screen. Also, the fact that the game gives you free hints was awesome but not helpful a few times. The extra artifacts you accidentally find had no explanation at all. And moving some of the levers was truly a difficult endeavor on some of the puzzles. But all in all, it was a fun and challenging game to play. Will probably buy the 2nd one to see what kind of improvements they have made. Good job guys!
- Januarysnow · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Great
Love the puzzles
- Iky223 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
I heard about the newest blue brain game
Congratulations on your new game. I want you to add that onto the iPad so I can play it on my iPad
- The game reviewing traveler · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Beyond Expectations
The game and storyline honestly exceeded my expectations. It was such a fun game from start to end!
- Stasi119966577 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
The Bean
Update: don’t start over. it’s worse than original comment. I give it 0 stars! ————————————————————————— I’m playing game #1. Love the graphics but this game is so overly flawed. I do what it says and get it correct and it does nothing leaving me stuck having to put more into what I consider a nuisance. I will not be buying any more if these games. Good luck!
- Over Priced!!! · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Hated it!
The first two minutes I was disappointed
- Bonnnniiujji · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
House of da Vinci
A very exciting mind exercise. I enjoyed it immensely. Was hard pressed to solve some of the chapters but managed.
- Kiki2353 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
A good long escape room puzzle game
I enjoyed the atmosphere and the higher difficulty. If you liked The Room you will enjoy this.
- Anonymous397483992 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Touch response leaves much to be desired
EDIT AFTER PLAYING HOUSE OF DAVINCI II:
Seems they fixed most of the issues that bothered me with the first iteration, glad I gave the 2nd a try. Touch response is much tighter. There are still some wonky perspective moments but it’s nothing like the first one. I’m several hours into House of Davinci II and really enjoying it.
ORIGINAL REVIEW FOR THIS CURRENT VERSION:
I had just blasted through The Room series and was looking for something comparable. This one is pretty ok but it has one issue that drove me absolutely insane, which is the way it responds to touch. You have to turn things JUST SO for them to work. If you don’t slide it EXACTLY into place, it’s a no-go. Really irritating after coming from The Room where things just click if you got it right so you aren’t left wondering if you didn’t straighten something that one fraction of a pixel in the right direction. Also, if you tap on something in the room to see if you’re able to zoom in on it, you can find yourself panning across until you’re back at the nearest item that actually WAS part of the plot rather than it simply not responding. If, for example, a stack of papers on a table isn’t part of the game then it should just not respond to touch rather than dragging me across the room so I have to reorient again. It’s overly difficult to try and get perspective on certain objects or just simply look around yourself. The knight’s armor, for example: I tried to maneuver the thing every which way and when I finally resorted to a hint: Lo! It was the armor after all, but all my tapping and turning kept getting me these weird perspectives that didn’t help lead to the clue. All that being said, there was enough interest that I’m going to give a later da Vinci game a shot in hopes they fixed these mechanics. The game itself would be cool if it wasn’t so dang hard to get the screen to respond as expected.
- Person-not-machine · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Cannot transfer to another device
This is being created in the year 2016 not 1995.
If you start this game, you will have to finish it completely on the same device as you started. In my case, I updated my iPad, and when I went to play the game on my new iPad, I had to start completely over which is just unbelievable that they did not think of that as they made the game. I contacted customer service and they said well we didn’t have that ability in 2016, which is absolutely untrue and crazy, many many games that were made in that year were able to transfer to other devices.
- baj1959 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
It’s real fun and done very well.
The workmanship is very good. I would recommend this anyone that wants to just do something that you can enjoy without having it be very stressful. Thank you.
- Hi Gee dog man two · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Great game!!
I love playing these high quality escape room type games. This one is just as fun and difficult as the room series. Highly recommend this game. About to start part 2… wish me luck😃
- Sloppyyyyy · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Good game but
Its a good game but is not worth 4 for such a short game if this game goes on sale for 99cents then it would be an alright game
- dont need that much ads · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Read the one star reviews, they are spot on!
LAST UPDATE: THE GAME HAS BEEN DELETED!!! I’m asking Apple for a refund, three days of fighting to control it, now can not finish the game using walk through, no amount of help will cure this game of it’s issues. Blue Brain, reprogram your thinking process. So you didn’t want to wait for “The Room” to make another game, you thought you could do better. Go back to the schematics. Really look at what kind of game you have created. Are all these five star reviews from friends and relations? Wow, those one star reviews are all spot on. Please! This is absolutely the worse game experience I’ve ever suffered through in 20 years on the net. It can’t be played in any normal sense of the word. If you want HOURS and house of swinging randomly all over your screen over and over and over. Have fun. I’m so done with this. I will make sure never to purchase anything from Blue Brain again, I’m suspicious of paid for reviews.
UPDATE: excuse this rambling review, it was written over several days of frustration to the point of tears. What a mess! At one point in this review I highly recommend this game, I no longer stand with that belief. After playing for days, using a You Tube Video to help, the frustration level is through the roof! I also said I would not compare this to The Room. Well I am now doing so, to save anyone from the belief this is going to be that wonderful smooth experience! It behaves entirely different, and not in a good way. I really tried to separate the two for their own merits. A lot of work goes into the creation of these games. The frustration lies with how this game operates. Some things in a scene are barely in view of the player and are extremely hard to navigate too. I flew through The Room games smooth and quickly, though their level of difficulty is a bit harder than these games. What makes this game so difficult and frustrating is the navigation. You have to be extremely precise, as to where the player touches the screen, it will swing all over the screen, completely missing where you so carefully touched. One hint has been stuck for over an hour, even though I completed the task in question. Another weird quirk is while you are trying to figure out a quest, suddenly it just pops into the right position, or suddenly completes with out trying. The puzzle would be pretty simple if the controls worked, but, I literally spent most of the time trying to control the wild swings. This is a bi polar game. The names of things are miss labeled as to what I know them as. So you are looking for something that is not there, or it is called by a name I’m not familiar with. The clues are so far off from what needs to be done. They are zero help. I have played all of “The Room” games. Not here to compare, just saying, that’s what brought me here. The biggest issue, other than navigation is the almost complete blackness in large areas of the game. This game is so dark, dimmed to the point of being uncomfortable to play in some areas of the game, I simply couldn’t see a task to complete because it blended into the blackness of a black hole in the time space continuum. So dark it hinders the ability to accomplish the tasks required to play. That’s with my 12.9 iPad with a 1000 Nits of brightness. I simply can’t get past the beginning of this game on any other device I own because of how dark, literally black in some areas of this game. The other big issue is it is continually locks up my device, where I have to do a hard start to play again. The graphics are fantastic. Sometimes the hints are “late for work”. In other words you get a hint after you have completed the task. Which is kind of pointless. So far I’m finding it very entertaining. This is fairly easy to figure out, just the right mix of not too difficult and not too easy. UPDATE: Four stars have now been deducted, after several days of giving this all I could. The issues mentioned have left me in the dark and hating this game. Bottom line? You purchase it, you own it. I love that concept. One more remark on how dark this game is, it’s beyond being comfortable to see. Go into this knowing that. There is a walk through video on You Tube, if you are stuck, I would not be stuck at any point other than the quests required blend into literally black, when you have to find a place you are required to place one of the instruments, it’s so black there is no differentiation between that device and the back ground. It simply cannot be seen in some areas of this game. I suggest lightening the entire game a few nits. It’s miserable playing in pitch blackness of space. Other than the blackness there is very little ability to control where you wish to go, it just swings wildly and quickly, far, far away from where you intended to be. You have to try over, and over, and over the same movement to get somewhere. I feel I just threw my money in the garbage. Go get The Room. Makes this look like a joke. Pass on this.
- JimCarm · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Great game.
This and the room are the only good iOS games
- Kelby Clements · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Lots of Potential But Boring and Frustrating
I finished the Room series and absolutely loved it, so I bought this game since it seemed like the next best thing. It’s obvious that a lot of thought and care went into it, and the artwork is gorgeous.
But the puzzles are boring, repetitive, unintuitive, and/or tedious, and the intricate devices are all so similar that it doesn’t really matter what task you’re on or what room you’re in, they’re all just castle models or gears or tubes of liquid or more gears. The controls and camera angels are often jerky or wonky (at least on an iPad), the lens often glitched, and the hints are very slow and often useless, especially since they are frequently a step or two behind what you’ve been trying.
There just isn’t enough logical progression to make the games make sense or to feel like you’re piecing together a bigger picture instead of just wandering around waiting for a clue or checking a walkthrough. Quite a few puzzles are so baroque and tedious that I solved them through brute force, just twisting dials or whatever until it worked because it wasn’t possible to discern a pattern. Others, oddly, are just busywork with no thought or strategy required. Too often you finally crack a tough puzzle and… nothing happens. No payoff or progression, just a long wait for the next hint to pop up.
The standards set by The Room are sky high, so I don’t expect another game to be that great. But Da Vinci, while beautiful and sometimes clever, was so frustrating and tedious and unfair to the player that I had to force myself to finish it to justify the purchase price. Maybe the sequels are better?
- quail · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Got stuck
Hints didn’t help. No way to find out how to move forward, no help available.
- Cal Feelin Old · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Don’t waste your money
El peor juego que he comprado!!! Solo tire mi dinero!!!! 😡
- Nice 11334 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
The Interactions are horrible!
It's super restrictive so even when you can clearly see an item, you can't interact with it till they decide. I would recommend The Room series, this just feels like a frustrating waste of time when none of the puzzles or hints make barely any sense. But really it's the interactions that ruin this game for me.
- NoKings613 · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Best in Class
I have played all of these and they are IMO the best ; along side the Rusty Lake games. My only negative is that voices (in the english language versions ) have British accents. Are we supposed to be in Italy?
- Sh$tbird · v1.1.0
Apple
2y ago
Wonderful but so Busy
It's realy one good game . I leave one room use 3 hours.
- aprilsleep · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
Hours of fun!
Great grqphics! Challenging puzzles
- Team simek · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
Desperately needs a puzzle reset option
All in all, enjoyable and creative puzzles. More than once I found myself several moves into a puzzle and finally starting to understand mechanics and rules, only to find myself hopelessly down the wrong path with no hope of returning to the starting arrangement. Some puzzles reset for you, and some don’t. I don’t understand why. The only way to restart the puzzle was to restart the entire chapter. Awful.
Most of the puzzles are just hard enough; I relied on a number of hints just to get myself to the right next step, although every so often the hint was so obscure I found myself looking up walkthroughs. There were a few puzzles that I just couldn’t figure out the arbitrary rules; the “Risk” game being the big one that stands out. Your army goes up…or down…depending on…um…some entirely decipherable reason, I’m sure.
As others have said, The Room is the original and the one to beat. But this was a nice diversion. Start with the room if you haven’t already. If you want more, try da Vinci.
- drukepple · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
House of Davinci I... FANTASTIC
Hands down, the best game I've played online! The graphics are amazing...a seamless, thrilling experience. Buying the next one...I'm hooked!
- CeceN1620 · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
Great adventure game in the spirit of The Room series
Some puzzles are a little sensitive on trigger placement and one puzzle in particular needs some help in way of explanation of what is required to complete. But on the whole this is a great adventure game with superb graphics.
- Tedanl · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
Davinci
Just the kind of game I’ve been looking for.
- Eldredf · v1.1.0
Apple
3y ago
Amazing and worth every penny!
No other way to put it. This game is brilliant and is one of the best games I have ever played. Incredible graphics, great story and challenging as well. I’ll be buying the sequels too. Just hope they live up to this one because this is going to be hard to top!
- UW HUSKY FAN · v1.1.0
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