Beautiful but a bit boring. Lilly goes after her little brother since he got stuck in a piece of cloth. During her adventure she travels through a couple of amazing environments. The backgrounds are simply precious and Lilly and her animations look good. However, she's cute sometimes but she also reminds me of Dora the Explorer, hate it. Can't be helped. Add a soothing soundtrack and all in all there's nothing wrong with the looks of the game.

But there are some serious cons. The game is short and slow. Each time there are less than a handful things to click on, so that can't be hard, can it? Thing is most of the time you have to repeat your actions. Pull the lever, push the button once, pull the lever, push the other button twice, pull the lever, push the first button four times etc. I got bored of it especially because the animations are slow. You want Lilly to do things faster but she can't.

I didn't like some of the puzzles either. The coloring and the mushroom puzzle were very tedious, again, because it's slow and repeated. Oh and I didn't get it at all, so it took me way too long lol.

Major dissapointment is the lack of a story. I had hoped for some explanation at the end but there is none! It even has an open ending, but it doens't make any sense. So there is no emotional attachment here. Not a real bad game, just slow and unsatisfying in the end.

5/10

I really had fun playing this game. It was sad that it wasn't longer but it did had nice puzzles i liked it.

If you enjoy playing games that tell stories without words then Lilly Looking Through is for you. It is a cute short point & click game about a girl going into a journey to save her little brother. She encounters many obstacles that require her to solve puzzles in order to proceed into the next area. With the aid of the goggles she found, Lilly was able to see another dimension? A parallel world perhaps or simply the past where it helps her to find her way to her brother. You can switch between the two worlds to solve the puzzles. It is a fun concept, I enjoyed it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370339405

Music is very relaxing and atmospheric, fitting the game so well. Soundtrack available on Spotify[open.spotify.com]. The artwork is beautiful, some of the areas looked green and bright, and the other gloomy, the game has a nice balance of areas. The character style and color of Lilly and her brother look cartoonish and out of place at first, but you'll get used to the look, it didn't bother me at all.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370336129

Now the puzzles vary between easy and difficult, I had to use a video guide for one of them (under the sea) and took a hint for the very last puzzle which is the longest one. It took me around two hours to beat the game without using a guide (except for the ones I mentioned) So the gameplay is quite short. It has ten stages (areas) and each one has its unique puzzle, once you finish it you can proceed to the next area.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370341441

Pros:
+Beautiful artwork and areas.
+atmospheric soundtrack.
+Kids friendly.
+Variety of puzzles. (Total of 10 areas)
+Interesting wordless story with a cliffhanger.

Cons:
-Short game.
-No steam achievements.


The game ended with a cliffhanger, but I didn't mind it at all, it was a cute experience. This game is perfect for parents to play it with their kids for some family time or people who love puzzles and P&C games.

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒

The game is very cute, and relaxing. I like the style, but there are two things that make me not recommend this game.

a) The ending is very abrupt, and is not an ending. It's like an episodic game, but there is no second episode. The story is not complete, and ends with a giant cliffhanger.

b) The puzzle mechanics involve unskippable cutscenes that can be at times very tedious. Three to five second animations between every step make trial-and-error guessing of what you're supposed to do very exhausting

It's almost a recommend, because the art is nice, the animations are cute, and the setting is quite pleasant.

I can't recommend it because the execution is terrible:
- mechanics suddenly change (can you click mid animation or not?)
- solving problems is mostly "I feel tricked" rather than "I feel smart"
- then the color puzzle come. The "solutions" might as well be arbitrary, I recommend you use a guide for all the color puzzles
- it's so rarely clear what to do. This isn't like "I want the solution" - I like hard puzzles. But the aim is just totally unknown - for one puzzle the magic solution is yellow, for another it's red. No indication why.
- the story is bland and ends so abruptly I felt like I'd fallen off a cloud.
- animation delay. This is a killer. Every single action has a second padding front and back when you can't do anything. At first this seems laid back... in the later puzzles where you need to make 50 or so animations in a row, it drives insane rather than creating a relaxing feel.

Short and relatively charming adventure in the vein of Samorost and Botanicula. No inventory management, no verbs, no dialogue, just clicking hotspots on the screen in the right order. Nice animation and graphics, soothing music and the puzzles occasionally provide a challenge. Sadly the challenge is more about trying to figure out what you should be doing than actually solving the problem itself - the age-old Myst™ curse. You find yourself spending lots of time flipping colored switches with no concept of what you're supposed to accomplish.

The story doesn't really make much sense or seem to be going anywhere. When it finally does the game just abruptly ends, and the said anticlimax just seems to underline the already short length of the game. If you've already played all Amanita Design games and still want more, then and only then consider Lilly Looking Through. Lilly doesn't quite fall in the same league, but is pleasant enough to waste a couple of hours with.

TL;DR LLL is a good point and click game with tons of adventure game errors.

Yes, I know I said it wasn't recommended. I'm probably gonna get shot in the head for this, but, Lilly Looking Through just feels like wasted potential. When I was going into this game, I had high expectations because people were saying it's good, and that it's like Machinarium and so on. After finishing the game (yes, it was that short), I don't feel like it's really that great.

Lilly Looking Through is a story about a girl named Lilly, who has to rescue her brother Row, from a... magcial cloth who has appeard to taken Row away. Yeah. Anyway, let's start with pros. The pros are that the game is charming and whatever, and has a nice setting. You can switch between two worlds to solve puzzles in and the art style is really cool. The animation in this game is wonderful, and it just looks overall great. The game isn't too hard, and you'll have fun playing it. Maybe.

Now it's time for the long list of cons. Some are personal, some are obvious.

1. The game is waaay too short. After finishing a puzzle, I was thinking what would happen next to these two protagonists. Then the game ends. Seriously. On a cliffhanger. One second I'm partially enjoying myself and the next second the credits are rolling.
2. YOU CANNOT skip animations. So whenever you're doing a puzzle, you have to watch every slow animation Lilly makes. It looks nice, but not when you're sitting there for minutes watching Lilly shamble on. These long animations actually help lengthen the already short game time. It makes the game super tedious and I can't enjoy it if it's like that.
3. Variety. There were a lot of the same puzzles. Ones with color mixing. I no like colors. I never thought a really short game could get repetitive.
4. Random. There's an appearance from Lilly's Grandpa at the end that had nothing to do with anything and it baffled the ♥♥♥♥ out of me. Also, there's like 5 lines of voice acting that randomly appear and I don't get it.

Overall, I wanted to like this game, but I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. There were a lot of cool things, but when you stop and look at it, you'll realize that there's problems abound. With that said, I wouldn't mind a sequel with some improvements or a new game from these guys. There's still a lot of potential here.

Hmm... this one's a hard one to review.

PROS:

—Beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL scenes/backgrounds. Absolutely magical art.
—A pair of magical goggles that transport you between past/present versions of the current scene (kinda like DOTT)
—At least one of the time-exploitation puzzles (the one involving trees) is very neat and clever
—Rather than inventory puzzles, LLT relies more on Myst-style machine-manipulation puzzles, which is a flavor I greatly enjoy and wish I could find in more games.

CONS:

—Every thing you click on plays a kinda slow/lengthy animation. Many puzzles require you to perform the same action over and over again, and it gets incredibly old watching these long, slow animations play out over and over again.

—The game’s coolest feature is the past/present time swapping goggles, but it is woefully, woefully underused.

—The game’s very first serious puzzle (i.e. the bubble pond) is one of the most frustrating puzzles in the game and may turn some people off right at the front door.

—Several puzzles in the game are based on color-swapping, but the puzzles don’t make sense. They end up being trial and error puzzles instead of puzzles where you work toward something that makes practical sense.

—The very last puzzle of the game is an illogical mess. You will most likely only solve it by guessing or by looking up a walkthrough.

—The game has no ending. Literally. It just abruptly ends with no apology or explanation. You solve the last puzzle, and then there is a short cutscene, and then Lilly finds herself in a new situation, and it appears as if this is a new room and a new puzzle is about to start, and then…. credits????? The ending is so painfully abrupt that it’s almost indistinguishable from a game crash. The barely-there story gets no resolution, no explanation, nothing.

--Very, very, very short. (About 2 hours, maybe a little less.)

This game is really beautiful, but it’s got some serious flaws that hold it back from being great. Here’s what it would need for true greatnesss:

+Some playtesting of the puzzles. A couple of them are painfully illogical/obtuse (especially that last one, holy hell).

+In fact, get rid of all of the silly color-based puzzles. Those puzzles are the worst offenders. The past/present time-swapping is the most interesting thing about this game and there is not nearly enough of it.

+Actually finish making the game.

I'm going to recommend this game to people who love point-and-click adventures, child-like wonder, and Myst-style machine-manipulation puzzles. However, I recommend it with a huge caveat, because I am not exaggerating in the least about the cons mentioned above. If you go into this game with your expectations appropriately adjusted, you may enjoy yourself for the evening.

A lovely adventure for the whole family that would benefit from more finely tuned gameplay and twice the current length. Kids will love it, though - and their parents might as well :D

+ Visually stunning
+ Good animations
+ Charming
+ Interesting puzzles

- Too short