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Mouse: click & drag to move objects. Touch: tap & drag. Works on desktop and mobile. Free demo — full version on Steam.
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The second game in the series. More rooms, deeper spatial thinking — puzzles that stretch the mechanic in every direction.
Click to start playing instantly
Mouse: click & drag to move objects. Touch: tap & drag. Works on desktop and mobile. Free demo — full version on Steam.
Her Trees: The Puzzle House is the second game by solo Japanese developer stone. After First Puzzle introduced the core idea — drag objects, overlap them, find hidden letters — The Puzzle House stretches that mechanic further. More rooms. Objects that overlap in trickier ways. Visual logic that runs deeper. The training wheels are off.
The art is the same hand-drawn black-and-white ink you know from the first game. The silence is the same. But the puzzles ask for more spatial thinking, more patience, more willingness to try something just to see what happens. You can play Her Trees: The Puzzle House online through the free browser demo — no download needed. The full version is available on Steam.
Players often just call it Her Trees 2. It sits between the bite-sized First Puzzle and the sprawling Puzzle Dream. If First Puzzle taught you the language, The Puzzle House makes you fluent.
Compared to First Puzzle, the rooms are larger and there are more of them — around 20 puzzles total. Objects overlap in less obvious ways. You'll find yourself rotating things at angles you wouldn't have thought to try, stacking three or four items where the first game asked for two, and spotting letters in the negative space between outlines rather than the outlines themselves. The difficulty curve is steeper, but the same hint system is there — hints unlock on a timer, no penalty for using them.
Around 20 puzzles compared to First Puzzle's 10. Each room is larger, with more objects and more ways they can interact. The visual logic runs deeper — you'll be stacking three or four items where two used to be enough.
The core mechanic hasn't changed. You still drag, overlap, and discover. But the puzzles now ask for lateral thinking that the first game only hinted at. Objects overlap in ways you won't expect. Letters hide in places you wouldn't think to look.
You don't need to have played First Puzzle. The Puzzle House works perfectly on its own. Each Her Trees game is a self-contained experience — no continuous plot, no required order.
Click or tap any object and drag it. Put things on top of each other. Overlap, rotate, shift. When two or more objects align the right way, a hidden letter surfaces — faint, easy to miss. Find all the letters in the room, type them into the 3×3 grid in the right order. A flower blooms on the tree. Move on to the next puzzle.
Left mouse button to interact. Click and hold to drag and rotate. Hover to inspect details. On mobile, tap and drag. That's all the controls you need.
Nothing in the room is decoration. The paper scrap, the shadow, the jar lid — everything exists to help you solve something. If you can see it, it matters.
Stuck? Walk away for a minute. Come back with fresh eyes. Still stuck? Hints unlock on a timer — first one's vague, third one shows you the answer. No penalty for using them. Full guide here →
The browser demo is free — play it online with no download, no signup. The full version with all puzzles is a one-time purchase on Steam. No microtransactions, no DLC.
Most players finish in 1 to 2 hours. There are around 20 puzzles. The built-in hint system unlocks on a timer if you get stuck, so you'll never be permanently blocked on a single puzzle.
The game has a graduated hint system. After spending some time on a puzzle, a hint button appears. The first clue points you toward the right objects. The second is more specific. The third shows you the solution. The game quietly tracks how many hints you used, but there's no penalty or locked content for using them.
Yes. The browser demo works on mobile devices — tap and drag objects with your finger. The monochrome art reads well on smaller screens. The full Steam version is Windows-only.
No jumpscares, no gore, nothing chasing you. The atmosphere is quiet and slightly eerie — like being alone in a room you don't remember entering. Dreamlike, not nightmarish.
Yes. The entire game is black-and-white — fully playable with any form of color vision deficiency. No sound-dependent puzzles — deaf and hard-of-hearing players miss nothing. Zero in-game text — no language barrier for non-English speakers or players with reading difficulties. These aren't accessibility settings added later; the game was designed this way from the start.
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"First Puzzle was the appetizer. The Puzzle House is the main course. More of everything — more rooms, more complex overlaps, more of that feeling when a letter finally clicks into view." — Steam ★★★★★
"If you played First Puzzle and wanted more, this is exactly that. The puzzles feel like natural extensions of the first game's ideas. Nothing feels forced or padded." — itch.io ★★★★★
"The jump in complexity from First Puzzle is noticeable but never unfair. There were puzzles that had me stuck for ten minutes, and when the solution clicked I felt like a genius." — Steam ★★★★★
"Stone has a gift for making you feel clever without ever telling you anything. The Puzzle House doubles down on that philosophy and it pays off." — Reddit ★★★★★
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