For 15 bucks, I was ripped off...:(
Don't get me wrong--The people that designed the graphics did a fantastic job; as did the sound people.
The game ran perfectly so the programmers were fantastic.
SO, What was the problem?
The puzzle designers were Lost In Space! Some of the puzzles were SO RIDICULOUS that, even after you Knew the answer, you would have to spend 'AGES' with the tedious nonsense of of trying to input it EXACTLY<<<An example would be a puzzle where you had Already Found a key but Then had to spend a large amount of frustrating time trying to "ADJUST" the key in order to make it fit a lock.<<<Just boring busy work.
Then there were puzzles that HAD TO BE DONE IN THE CORRECT ORDER---In other words...You saw the things that you would need later BUT couldn't add them or use them YET so they didn't become highlighted or available for use.
Let's say: That piece of firewood that you Knew you would need wasn't highlight so you couldn't pick it up or add to inventory. But later, after doing things in the order that the puzzle designers decided you should do them in, the firewood NOW was highlight so that you could interact with it.
Just down right BAD puzzle designers, In my opinion.
This game COULD have been very good but instead was just a long swim upstream just trying to get it over with.<<And when that happens, it isn't a fun game any longer. Heck, it isn't even a game or puzzle. It is just an annoying misery that you JUST HAVE TO FINISH because you paid so much for it.
In the state this 'game' is, I'd would say don't pay more than 4 or 5 bucks for it just to enjoy what the graphic designers and sound people have created.
It's the puzzle designers and continuity people that Ruined It, In my opinion.

This game could be great. You can see that I played it for 4 hours, which is a fairly chunky amount of time for a game I'm putting a thumbs-down for.

The game has a lot of good puzzles. I love looking around, trying to find all the pieces, examining the rooms and puzzles, finding the solutions. Lots of good serotonin to be had. If you're one of the lucky people for whom this game will work properly, then you'll have a great time.

But if you're like me, you'll struggle until you realize the game itself is screwing you over.

I loaded up the game and was surprised by how low-res everything looked. I thought it was art-style for a time (I'd went in blind and hadn't looked at any of the screenshots or anything), until I was stuck on a puzzle and finally went to look for help. Upon looking at a screenshot of the solution I realized that I couldn't solve the puzzle /because the textures were so poorly rendered that I could not see ANY of the details that were on the item I was working with/.

And it's /bad/. There are some items so badly rendered in the game I didn't even know what they /were/ until I was looking at pictures taken by people who are not having this issue. There's no way to adjust the settings, by the way. I tried. After looking into the discussion forum, it seems that some players load up the game with no problem and others get the absolute washed out, indescribable mess that I get. This wouldn't be a problem if it didn't also /impact the puzzles to the point of making them unsolvable/. So what if the world is ugly if I'm having fun with the puzzles. For a while I thought I was just kind of an idiot -- but no, the game just isn't loading in enough information for me to play properly.

Also, the controls are bad. I endured it, but the longer I played, the more annoyed I got. This click-and-drag to open drawers puts a ton of strain on the wrist and hand tendons, and it was novel when Amnesia did it, but it's not novel here. Especially when 90% of the cabinets and drawers you'll be opening HAVE NOTHING OF VALUE INSIDE, but since /sometimes/ there's puzzle bits or notes stashed in there, you have to open every single one. A simple click to open and close would have worked just fine.

The motion blur is also bad. Nothing better than turning your PC and having to wait for the camera to rubber band to the proper place.

In closing: the game would be great if the devs cared to fix the texture issue (discussions say promises on that were made but never fulfilled), and added an accessibility mode that turns drags into clicks. If you want something similar without the texture nightmare and the annoying controls, try "The Room" instead.

The gameplay was mostly tedious.

The biggest challenge in the puzzles was finding objects in the rooms; floaty controls and a requirement of opening and checking countless drawers and cupboards with said controls. The logic required in solving puzzles was usually very easy or not particularly logical but solvable with some easy trial and error. Ultimately for a game that calls itself an escape room, puzzle quality should be very important, and I am afraid the puzzles here were just boring.

On the positive side, the game has some nice (although low-poly) African-inspired aesthetic, some lovely background music, and a not half bad background story that gradually gets exposed through letters that you find and through some excellent voice-over narration.

I love escape room games and I just replayed The Room series again today before trying this out. The visuals, music, and story were good, but I could not get past the finicky controls and frustrating nature of many of the puzzles. The one inside the mannequin was the absolute worst!

It's alright for what it is, but as much as I hate to say it I'm glad to be done with it.

Well, humm. The house that the story takes place in looks nice, but otherwise there are a lot of frustrations. The narrator is very slow and the story doesn't have enough explanation to be understandable (and I read Henry Stanley's book!) The gestures for moving things are very difficult to accomplish, at least for me. taking long swipes with the mouse in unintuitive directions for even simple things like opening doors. Turn screws is worse and half the time I barely start them turning in the proper direction and then I get to the edge of my mouse pad and after recentering the mouse, I start pulling it in the same direction and the screw starts turning backward. Really I could pull my hair out.

Otherwise I suppose it comes down to the puzzles and mostly they are just finding things, and once you've found them there's generally not much to do to put them into action. Not really worth all the frustration.

I'm sure a lot of time went into this game, but it's just plain boring. I love escape the room style games but when the objects you need are like 4 pixels (e.g. pepper), it's an aggravating experience to play. I made it about 20min before I got frustrated and bored with it.

Experience the reversed escape room game.

is a very misleading statement. Because this is very much a pretty basic escape room game at its core and nothing special. But that is not the problem with it, because it is a decent even if pretty easy puzzle game.

The first problem is the controls, they are just simply plain bad. They completely killed my enjoyment of the game.

And the second problem is the fact there is just so many empty drawers/cupboards and unless items that you can't interact scattered everywhere. I get that you wanna fill up the house, but it is just simply not fun looking at literally every single thing in the game (especially when the controls are bad) to finally find something you can interact with because the game doesn't make it obvious what is something you can take and use/interact with and what is not.

Shame.

Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

I was doing very well, but after arriving at the Clinic, I was unable to advance. Due to the fact that i was unable to grab an objective after completing the puzzle. this could be solved by including a "reset level" in order to fix this kind of bug in future. As it stands though I'd have to start a new game, with no guarantee that it would fix the problem. I even read a walk through in order to skip the puzzle and attempt to advance. I made it a little further just to have the game circle back to the thing i needed to unlock.

Not happy with the game

I almost never leave negative reviews for games I don't like but this one was exceptionally bad. The camera movement feels nauseating, The story feels almost pointless. The title of 'reversed escape room' is incredibly misleading, it's literally just an escape room but you go deeper in instead of trying to exit. The puzzles are locked to screens which limits your actual interaction with the environment when trying to solve things. Some puzzles are so finicky that even after you solve them the game won't progress because you were off by 0.00001 millimetres. Half the drawers in the game don't open fully, and most of them are filled with items that look like you can interact with but can't. The lighting in 75% of the game hurts your eyes. Some of the clues for puzzles don't even fit together properly with their counterparts. The tutorial portions at the beginning of the game either feel useless or intrusive to the gameplay. A game of this size somehow even managed to lag my above average PC at one point in the game because of a poor gameplay design decision.

Even at the extremely low price I paid for this, I would not recommend this game to anyone. Save your money and save your time.

Motion blur is possible to be turned off only on the lowest possible "processing" setting. The controls are not smooth at all, to the point where I used a walkthrough to see how to solve some riddles because manouvering a mouse by myself was too much. And when I reached the 4th door, the game crashed and after reloading I'm stuck forever in the completed room, not being able to enter a new one.
I usually try to complete all games but here I really wonder If I want to.