First Class Escape: The Train of Thought
I’d really like to recommend this, but that Chapter 4… it sapped the fun :( and made it almost impossible to finish the game. Great setting and ideas up to then, if sometimes let down by the execution. The co-op hosting was seamless, controls were fine, and how nice to find notes not littered with errors. I loved working out the guests, but searching a bookcase three times for that one you can interact with? Dull and frustrating. Collectables are a fun addition… sometimes they were more clever and satisfying to retrieve than solving the puzzles!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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Just finished playing this game in single player mode. Overall the game was enjoyable…graphics are nicely done and the puzzles for the most part were not overly difficult. I see some people giving the game negative reviews because some of the puzzles on Level 4 were challenging…if you take your time and examine how each machine works, you can eventually solve them without the need for a walkthrough.
Having said that, this is a new game and some refinement is needed. Having to drag things with the mouse (opening drawers, turning dials, etc.) is tedious and annoying….there has to be a better way to do this. There’s also apparently no way to customize the keyboard controls and no info that I could find on which keys do what. It’s also almost impossible to read some of the notes when you pick them up…the text is tiny and I could find no way to magnify it. Playing on a large screen TV sitting maybe 5 feet away, I had to get up and stand 6" away from the text to read it.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
Palindrome Syndrome is an “escape room” style game somewhat like the Room series. Unlike some games of this type, where there can be a lot of concurrent puzzles to solve and backtracking to various other parts of the game with puzzle pieces obtained by solving other puzzles, Palindrome Syndrome is fairly linear; each section has a set number of puzzles that are related to each other, you solve them, progress to the next section, and never have to revisit the previous section again.
I found the puzzles to be pretty challenging; some had written clues in the form of message logs relating to them, but the majority of them require you to observe your surroundings and intuit what exactly needs to be done. I was able to figure out almost all of them, although there were a couple of those puzzles with a series of switches where each one makes the other switches move in a certain way and the goal is to get them all set to the “on” position at the same time where I just clicked a bit randomly until it worked. I didn’t have to brute force anything else. This is good because this game does not have any kind of “hint” system like similar games.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
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Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room is a puzzle solving game where you take on the role of a scientist who wakes up after being cryogenically frozen sometime in the past. You need to solve puzzles to escape the room and as you do, a perplexing mystery is slowly revealed.
Pros:
Simple controls
Graphics are good
Several puzzles
Puzzles range from easy to impossible
Voice acting is okay
Good animations
Cons:
Very short
Two of the puzzles have no logical solution
Missing clues
The mystery is not surprising
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Mad Experiments: Escape Room
We played this for a Coronavirus stay-at-home team event, with 15 people in 3 rooms, and everyone had a great time! It is definitely challenging but generates lots of fun conversation. We ended up using Zoom to talk with each other, and used the Zoom “breakout room” feature to split into the 3 rooms. This worked well; however, things work much easier if you run Zoom on a different machine than the game (Zoom on a phone, for example). Great game! We are looking forward to Chapter 2!
[Update] We had another team event playing through Chapter 2, and it was also great fun! It’s harder than Chapter 1, so don’t feel bad about making more liberal use of the hints . . .
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
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A pretty good escape room experience, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter (coming out Nov 11!). If you have the cash to burn, I recommend it. After all, it’s cheaper than a real escape room session. Not for people who get extremely nauseated when playing 3d or first person games; I powered through the first chapter and had to take a break before moving on to the second. A friend and I played together and we had different opinions per chapter; she preferred the first, and I preferred the second. The game felt very polished, we did not run into any problems with objects disappearing or falling through the floor, as per older reviews. Mild spoilers/hints to follow.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Between Time: Escape Room
Between Time is third game from mc2games and, in my opinion, it is their best release to date. I enjoyed both previous titles (Palindrome Syndrome and Tested On Humans) which had well thought out puzzles but could be a bit confusing at times.
In Between Time, the interface has been slightly tweaked and seemed more intuitive. The development team has done a great job providing visual clues on related puzzles and there is a gentle hint system if you are stuck. They also posted a full solution guide which I only referred to once. This game has a time travel theme so it is played in five distinct environments, each with a new set of diverse puzzles. Most are easily solved if you are paying attention, as clues tend to be in plain sight.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
really love the fun and challenging puzzles. not TOO frustrating.
I find the clues are really well done. Some other puzzle games might just not tell you anything at all to make it “challenging”. Really that’s poor design and frustrating to the player.
This game however is really fun with interesting locales.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
EscapeVr
spent 2 hours trying to get shit to work waste of money, really bad buy
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Good Game.
I like that you can pick up and destroy everything. :D
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise is a “puzzle adventure” game which means that it combines a typical puzzle game with a stronger focus on the story. The player takes on the role of the silent “Agent A”, a secret agent on the trail of a nefarious villain, Ruby La Rouge.
Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise is split up into five chapters, each focused on a different section of the story, but the entire game revolves around infiltrating and capturing Ruby La Rouge. To do this, players will have to solve a variety of puzzles and find several secrets in La Rouge’s private getaway.
– Real player with 21.6 hrs in game
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Imagine, if you will that you owned a house, sitting on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Filled with sliding windows to allow the ocean breeze to enter, many levels (including an internal elevator) and even a boat jettied below in case you want to go for a ride. Now imagine that the entire house is filled with hidden secrets that a stealthy agent will admire. Well, this house has a tenant named Ruby La Rouge and she is simply an agent disposer. You play as Agent A and your task is to stop Ruby knocking off another agent named “B”, and of course you as well.
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Havsala : Into the Soul Palace is an investigative puzzle game with a rich storytelling in which you try to pinpoint times and places where the Soul Palace visitors live using diaries, books, paintings and many other clues.
Can you uncover the stories in this hand drawn 2D point & click mystery puzzle game?
Havsala includes;
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Beautiful hand drawn artwork
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Diverse characters with their own stories
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Many historical references and stories
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Mind blowing, original puzzles
AI: The Somnium Files
What makes a game good? Is it the story? The characters? Or perhaps, the graphics?
You see, to me, it’s the combination of the writing, the characters, the soundtracks, and a strong voice acting performance. AI: The Somnium Files fills all the criteria, hence, making this a good game. Actually? Scratch that, it’s better than “good”, it’s a wonderful game and i don’t have to be a detective like, say, the protagonist of AI, Kaname Date to figure that much. But you might wonder, what is AI: The Somnium Files?
– Real player with 90.1 hrs in game
An AI for an Eye
It’s been a while since I was this hooked on a game and this one hooked me right from the start and didn’t let go. I was supposed to just test it to see if it works on my potato laptop, but I couldn’t put it down. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me experience a whiplash of emotions.
AI: The Somnium Files is a game by Uchikoshi Kotaro, the creator of the famous Zero Escape trilogy, and developed by Spike Chunsoft so you should expect high production values. It’s an adventure/visual novel hybrid similar to Zero Escape, but this time the two segments are completely intertwined every step of the way. It gave me that same feeling of a larger looming mystery you gradually reveal in a non-linear way the previous trilogy had. It’s also quite different at the same time.
– Real player with 57.4 hrs in game
Scelestum
Played 11 hours so far and it’s worth the pick up at this sale price. Neat little indy game, caught me a few times and I’ve jumped with some of the demons and it’s worth playing with friends!
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Cube Escape: Paradox
Over half of the game content is outside of the game.
The game itself is good and fun… but if yeh try to complete the game honestly with no cheating, yeh are gonna have bad time.
I finally googled how to get last achevements, over half of them… and found out there is movie yeh are supposed to watch. Game has link on this movies trailer, which does not contain the hints.
If I wanted to go around internet googling for information, I would be doing school work or research. When I buy game, I want to the puzzle pieces to be in the game. When is the last time yeh bought buzzle from shop and found out, not all the pieces are in the box you got… Not common, because that is not how puzzle games work.
– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game
tl;dr: Rusty Lake games are Brilliant! They took a step further and made a movie!
Pros:
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Really well crafted universe with rich story
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Decent blend of easy and challenging puzzles
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They Made A Movie with this one!
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Prefer mobile? They have more games on iOS app store
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Achievements, game, and movie all tied together. How cool is that!
Cons:
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Wish all of their mobile games were on Steam, I currently have the whole series on my phone
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If you don’t like puzzle or escape games this will be a hit or miss for you
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game