As someone who has played previous escape room games from this developer, I have to say Pyramids & Aliens is a massive step forward, especially in the visual department. The environments are gorgeous, with detailed textures and lighting that make the alien temple and Egyptian pyramid settings feel alive. You can tell a lot of care went into creating the atmosphere.

The puzzles are as engaging as ever, with just the right balance of challenge and logic. Definitely worth playing!

Another excellent puzzler from mc2games. I've played and truly enjoyed all of their titles. Over time, they have ironed out the rough spots and I would say that Pyramids and Aliens is their best so far. The graphics are gorgeous, the sound track provides a nice background, and the puzzles are diverse and challenging. There is a (very) minimal story that provides basic context but not much more.

The game is segmented into two areas. Surprise! One has an Egyptian theme and the other is pure Alien. Both have puzzles that require logic and symbol interpretation (including deciphering foreign numbers and letters). The hardest part of the game is figuring out how some puzzles work. This, of course, is exactly what one would experience if confronted with ancient or futuristic machinery in real life. The puzzles are diverse and present a wide range of difficulty levels. In all cases, clues are clearly indicated for the gamer who is paying attention. I took pages of notes and printed screenshots since most clues are not portable within the game. I am happy to report that I only checked the guide on one puzzle. As it turned out,I had missed a hot spot in the alien laboratory so I did not have access to the clue.

All achievements are unmissable. Some puzzles are interdependent so you cannot progress to the Alien area without first completing the Egyptian area. Thus, if you finish the game , you will be at 100%. The game also sports two endings and creates a save point just prior to the final decision you are asked to make. There is an explicit save option (to a single slot) but the game also appears to save on exit.

There is an in-game hint system that I would like to see changed in future games. There are no "gentle nudges." If you press the hint button, you will be presented with the puzzle solution.

Finally, an means of carrying around clues would be nice. I don't mind using a pencil and paper but the ability to store clues in your inventory (either as a photo or a note) and use, as needed, would have been more efficient.

I highly recommend Pyramids and Aliens to those who enjoy Escape-the-Room type games and have a heart for puzzling their way around an environment. Completing it provides major satisfaction!

This is the situation when mc2games keeps on giving us escape rooms. Every next one feels better, more cohesive than the previous ones. And this one can also boast much better visuals.
Playtime at 5.5 hours, tea brakes counted; several EUREKA moments, overall very nice puzzle and environment design.

Think you are meant to mind read to know what the actual hint any equipment is telling you, you can spend ages trying to solve a puzzle then realise you need something else. Not fun at all, started good. Need a phone to take pics of hints or a lot of writing.

I've been playing the escape rooms from mc2games for years now, and each new room gets more refined with better graphics and more interesting puzzles. Pyramids and Aliens is no exception...the graphics are great and the puzzles are pretty much all very interesting and challenging. There were a few that I got stumped on, but after looking at the hint I always had a "duh" moment where it all made sense.

I will say that I found the very end of the game disappointing though. Once you get to the end and have to make your choice, the buttons on the right are incredibly hard to see, and no matter which option you choose, you don't get to see the results of your choice, the game just ends. Would have liked a final cut scene of some sort.

Très bon puzzle game avec des puzzles surtout visuels, pas trop de lecture, tout ce que j'aime, en plus je ne parle pas bien l'Alien. :P
Les puzzles sont bien dosés pour nous faire réfléchir et parfois il faut continuer à progresser à travers les autres salles pour pouvoir avoir l'info qui nous permettra de finir notre puzzle en cours.

Je le recommande fortement aux amateurs de puzzle game.


Very good puzzle game with mostly visual puzzles, not too much reading, everything I like, plus I don't speak Alien well. :P
The puzzles are well balanced to make us think and sometimes we have to continue to progress through the other rooms to be able to get the information that will allow us to finish our current puzzle.

I highly recommend it to puzzle game fans.

Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room is, as its name implies, an escape room first person game in which you'll solve a series of puzzles through an environmental setting that combines both Ancient Egyptian and Sci-Fi themes.

The puzzles are all solvable through logical deduction and observation without requiring any far-fetched leaps of logic or external assistance, featuring an optional in-game hint feature as an additional provision. While the first few puzzles are to be solved one after another, most of the game allows the player to juggle between several obstacles at the same time.

On a technical level, the game provides a competent audiovisual aspect, with low-key ambient music to break the silence without interrupting the thinking process, solid graphics and good performance. Players are not required to perform high precision, reaction-based inputs and the game can be leisurely completed with a mouse/keyboard or controller.

Overall, P&A offers a fun experience for fans of the genre, with reasonable riddles that can be quite satisfactory to figure out and an adequate length - not hard to recommend to those that have enjoyed similar titles.

Some very challenging puzzles. Many (well most) that I had to use the hint on, a few I didn't understand at all even with a walkthrough, and a handful of rewarding ones that I solved all by myself. One thing that really helps though is writing down / drawing the clues in a notepad so you can refer to them later, including on the time sensitive puzzles.

ill give a scale of 1-10
you figure out which is better and worse
puzzles - 5
floor layout - 3
player movement - 4
rewarding ending - 1
worth buying for the puzzle lovers - 5
worth buying for the game lovers - 2

This game is a guessing game, there is only one logical puzzle at the first then it takes a nose dive and you have to start guessing. Puzzles are one of my go to's for relaxing but I at least expect logic out of them, not getting it in this puzzle sadly.