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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 17.7 hrs on record (8.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 23 Jul, 2023 @ 4:38am

I am recommending the game if you are interested in escape rooms, it is definitely worth the money.

WHAT I LIKE:
- Nice art.
- Easy to understand mechanics.
- There are 27 escape rooms in total in the basic version, 4 more in each of the DLCs. You are looking at >10 hours of fun. - - Additionally, there are many community built rooms (and you can also build some yourself).
- The vast majority of puzzles are intuitive enough that you can figure them out without help. They are also clever and interesting, with different themes.
- Hints on how to proceed are provided if you do get stuck.

WHAT I DISLIKE:
- Some, though thankfully only few, puzzles are too unintuitive and I would never have thought of the solution without using the hint. Like, there is absolutely no reason for me to think about breaking down a bar of soap to look for a pin inside.
- The tropheys. Each room has a time limit and if you can get out fast enough, you get a trophey. May seem like a good idea, but I find that it pushes me to use hints more than I would otherwise, to proceed faster and get the trophey first time. If you do not get it first time, you have to replay it (my completionist mind cannot NOT get the trophey if it's there). However, the rooms are not very replayable in short succession. Nothing is procedurally generated, every code is exactly the same, so replaying is a matter of a few minutes. Therefore, I don't really understand the point of the trophey. I would rather have a trophey for not using any hints, to motivate me to take my time and think.
- The tokens. Each room has 8 tokens hidden around it. Not really a bad idea, I like this type of thing, but not if it is nigh impossible to find. They are hidden too well. Despite consciously looking everywhere, I can rarely find more than 4 of them! It just gets frustrating. You have to be really stubborn and motivated to search for them all without resorting to guides. I wish the tokens were more conspicuous, bright coloured or sth. It would still be fairly hard to find them all, but not frustratingly so.
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