The House of Tesla

About The House of Tesla

The House of Tesla is a point-and-click adventure puzzle game from Blue Brain Games, the team behind The House of Da Vinci. Set in Nikola Tesla’s abandoned Wardenclyffe facility, you explore eerie industrial spaces filled with handcrafted brain-teasers. Released on September 23, 2025, it’s available on PC and Linux. The story follows Tesla’s rise and fall through his eyes, blending historical fiction with cryptic mysteries. Players piece together his legacy by solving logic puzzles, manipulating machinery, and decoding blueprints. The game leans into atmospheric tension and intricate design, positioning itself as a spiritual sequel to the Da Vinci series. If you like methodical problem-solving and moody settings, this is your jam.

Gameplay

The core loop revolves around exploration and environmental puzzles. You’ll click to interact with objects, blueprints, and machinery, often requiring you to rotate 3D models or adjust electrical circuits. Puzzles range from reassembling shattered schematics to calibrating Tesla coils. Each level is a self-contained challenge, but progress hinges on linking clues across locations. The point-and-click interface is precise but demands patience, tiny hotspots can be finicky. Strategy elements emerge in resource management, like channeling power through grids or timing switches. Sessions feel methodical, with 30, 60 minute stretches common. The game’s difficulty spikes in the second half, where layered puzzles test both logic and lateral thinking.

What Players Think

PlayPile users rate it 4.3/5, with 87% completion rate and 68% finishing in under 10 hours. Average playtime is 5.5 hours, though 22% log over 12. Community moods skew curious (64%) and determined (51%), but 33% report frustration during late-game puzzles. Critics praise the “hauntingly beautiful” art style (92% approval) but note repetitive sound design. One user wrote, “The puzzles click like a well-oiled machine once you learn the rhythm.” Achievement data shows 350 total, with 17% earning the “Tesla’s Final Spark” secret unlock. While 78% say it’s “worth the price,” 15% cite a steep learning curve as a barrier.

PlayPile's Take

This is a must-play for fans of logic-heavy adventures and niche history. At $29.99, it’s a bargain for 6+ hours of dense puzzles, though newcomers might struggle with the obtuse mechanics. The 350 achievements add replay value, but don’t expect hand-holding. If you’ve breezed through The House of Da Vinci’s later chapters, Tesla’s a natural next step. Skip if you prefer fast-paced action or instant gratification. The game’s charm lies in its stubbornness, it rewards persistence, not reflexes.

Storyline

Science brings mysteries toward the light one by one, strips them of their secrets, and makes them part of something greater. It is true that some myths are rooted too deeply, are too resilient, and even seem like having a mind of their own as they resist men of science trying to shine the light of understanding. But in the end, science and mystery are anything but anathema to each other. On one stormy night, a person was brought to this world. A child of darkness and a child of light, full of mysteries and full of scientific curiosity, just starting to build a myth of their own. You will explore the eerie abandoned industrial buildings of Nikola Tesla’s most ambitious facility in Wardenclyffe, which was meant to become an important city where the future is today and every societal process is improved upon by the principles of free wireless electrical energy. Through the eyes of the man himself you’ll watch the important moments that lead to the construction and later to the fall of the famous Wardenclyffe Tower, and slowly uncover the mystery that left you stranded among deserted machines.