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
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
I have to say: “I really enjoyed the ride”.
Price per hours played seemed very reasonable.
The graphics are fine and the game ran smooth without so much as a hiccup.
I think SOME of the puzzles are a stretch and I had to just Brute Force a few (I found that frustrating BUT It Could just have been something that I missed).
Another thing that I found strange was that there were Other Puzzles visible to me that I DIDN’T NEED TO SOLVE to move on…curious.
The GREAT THING is that there isn’t BACKTRACKING!!!
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
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Thank you to the developer and publisher at mc2games for creating a game for me to escape, think and enjoy.
The growing list of challenging escape room games continues to grow with the inclusion of the excellent title Escape Room Tested on Humans(ERToH). A challenging, polished game with a surprising message at the end is an absolute must play.
Simple story premise, you play as Alex who awakens in what appears to be a jail cell and must escape. As you move room to room you will come along with a few notes that will give meaning to what is going on and a very surprising ending message from the developer that made me pause though I will not spoil.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor is a narrative horror puzzle game set in a beautiful and enigmatic victorian era manor with a dark secret.
Unravel The Mystery
After working for more than ten years as the private assistant of the enigmatic railroad magnate Hadley Strange, the news of his sudden and unexpected death along his entire family takes you by surprise. Now you have been appointed as the executor in charge of fulfilling his last will,and take care of his majestic manor, a luxurious property on the outskirts of London. Upon your arrival to the mansion you find an envelope with your name containing a letter bearing a cryptic set of instructions that might change your mind about who your former employer really was.
Delve Into The Manor
Explore a beautiful Victorian Mansion filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical contraptions that will reveal to you even the most intimate aspects of the life, past and legacy of its former residents. Decipher curious locks and find key items and objects that will help you make your way through the 24 manor rooms in a non linear way, each room has a unique beauty and new pieces that will help you unveil the dark secret kept by the residence.
Solve The Puzzles
Solve clever riddles and fascinating mechanical puzzles crafted to ensure that only the right person could unveil the mansion’s secret. Look for clues and take a closer look to your surroundings to discover the shocking truth about the mansion and it’s mysterious residents. Find items and manage your inventory to make your way through the different passages of the mansion, examine many detailed items and discover how to use them to unlock all the rooms and get all the pieces to solve the manor puzzling secret, one so shocking that will leave you breathless.
Features
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Well Balanced Logic and Inventory Puzzles
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Non Linear Exploration Gameplay
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Rich but not intrusive Story
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Multiple Play Modes & Collectibles
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Regular Factory: Escape Room
You don’t work in a regular assembly line. Will you unravel the truth?
Regular Factory is an escape room that will test your skills. Solve puzzles, decode secret codes, find hidden objects, and investigate the different rooms of the secret factory where you work while you discover the dark truth.
Solve this mystery by exploring each of the rooms in which this adventure takes place. Will you be able to escape?
Characteristics
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Solve puzzles based on logic.
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Explore different rooms, find clues and hidden objects.
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Discover more about the true purpose of the factory where you work.
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Enjoy the mysterious and atmospheric setting.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580150/Between_Time_Escape_Room/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1483780/Tested_on_Humans_Escape_Room/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374290/Palindrome_Syndrome_Escape_Room/
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
Project Cabin
A Very interesting game,at the start it seems to be a Horror Game but he isnt.
I hoped in a alternative ending but this game dont have them or i dont discovered them for now.
I hope the creator make another game
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Wellp… I’m in two minds about this game.
On the one hand, there are pluses, which are few in number and which are rather subjective, but still:
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lovely color spectrum that creats peculiar mood;
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interesting ideas and details, especially these creepy snowmen.
On the other side, there is the whole Mount Everest of minuses. Bugs driving me crazy (red coins will appear in my wortst nightmares); a lot of pointless interactive subjects which don’t hold any secrets or don’t have any value for the plot (why? are they for distraction?); knowing absolutely nothing about the protagonist, who is he or she, what happend to him/her, why is the whole village abandoned, where do these creepy snowmen come from, what do they want, ARE WE EVEN ALIVE????? Ugh, so many questions, so little answers.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Escape Simulator
Great and fun co-op game. the puzzle difficulty is just right. the interactivity with the environment is good (you can pickup some objects, throw them, inspect them together with co-op friends, but some object can only be drag around). Looking forward for the new level update from the developer and high quality workshop level from the community. I hope the developer would expand the capability of the level editor to facilitate that.
Update :
Ok, so the additional 58 hours since the first review was mostly (80%-90%) consisted of me trying to play around with the editor and eventually created a level in the workshop which you can find here :
– Real player with 59.9 hrs in game
Escape Simulator is one of the few escape room games that can be played with one or more friends, in online co-op mode. In fact, while the game can be experienced in its entirety in solo mode as well, it was clearly designed with the multiplayer feature in mind.
Escape Simulator is structured in very small one-room levels that are all available to play from the beginning (there are no requirements to unlock them) and which are grouped according to their theme. At the moment of the release, the game features 16 levels in total (a tutorial, and 5 levels each, belonging to an Egypt / space / Victorian mansion theme) with more to come in the near future (5 more levels have been announced as a free port-release path). Aside from this, players can create their own rooms and share them with the community, since the game also has a Steam-integrated workshop.
– Real player with 42.0 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
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
Horror Maze
This game definitely has its flaws but I think it is good. The jump-scares for some monsters can be better such as the arctic maze demon. When you are caught by the demon, it isn’t that scary. Also the jump-scare noises are the same for a lot of the monsters and doesn’t sound too good. Overall though I did enjoy it and did get scared a few times.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Horror Maze Gameplay | PC
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game