The Eyes of Ara
First-person puzzle adventure through a castle broadcasting a mysterious signal
100 Stones Interactive · Released Jul 19, 2016
AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 82% of 854
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 4
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 11 months ago
- Oct 5, 2025
Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.
What is The Eyes of Ara?
This first-person, point-and-click puzzle adventure takes place in an abandoned castle on a remote island, where a mysterious signal prompts an investigation. You explore rooms, manipulate mechanisms, solve puzzles, and read writings left by former occupants to uncover the castle's history and open hidden passages.
For you if...
- +you enjoy patient, challenging point-and-click puzzle solving
- +you like finding secret rooms alongside the main path
- +you prefer piecing together stories from found writings
Not for you if...
- −you want a fast pace and a clearly marked route
- −you expect every puzzle solution to have obvious clues
What players say
82% of 854 reviews are positive
Players praise the castle's scenery and its challenging puzzles. Common complaints include hard-to-spot objects in dark rooms and later puzzles whose logic feels unclear.
Screenshots and trailer
The Eyes of Ara system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 64bit or later
- Processor
- 2.40GHz Processor
- Graphics
- Video card with Shader model 3.0 support and at least 256MB of Memory
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64bit or later
- Processor
- Intel i5 3.20GHz Processor or higher
- Graphics
- NVIDA GeForce GTX 750 equivalent or higher
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 28
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese.
Tags
- Puzzle
- Adventure
- Point & Click
- Hidden Object
- Atmospheric
- Mystery
- Investigation
- Logic
- First-Person
- Exploration
- Difficult
- 3D
- Old School
- Immersive
- Story Rich
- Sci-fi
Recent updates
- Oct 5, 2025 · Patch 1.5.2
- Oct 12, 2023 · The Eyes of Ara patch 1.5.1
- Jan 9, 2023 · The Eyes of Ara version 1.5 update
- Oct 12, 2018 · Patch 1.4 - The Explorer’s Journal
- Dec 21, 2017 · Merry Mysteries
3 DLC available.
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