I've been a bit on the fence about this game throughout yesterday and today. On sale the game costs £3.5 and I have 3.5 hours so far so I have my money's worth.

The game presents itself as an RPGMaker styled locked room/escape the room mystery. I've done a couple of these puzzles in real life and thought I'd give it a shot.

The gameplay is pretty much what you'd expect; hunt around the room for clues to solve the puzzles to find keys to open the door. That's all great, fun and challenging.

I came across a few issues while playing. The developer (in the comments below) has been great in responding to them and promising to work on some quality of life improvements. I'll leave these issues at the bottom as a reference.

However, overall my review is to recommend this game - this game has an active, engaged developer who is passionate about their game, who talks to the playerbase and tries to improve the experience for the players.

The experience is fun, quirky and as far as I know, unique. There are different endings dependent on your choices, the story is decent and the puzzles are intricate and challenging on the whole (various difficulty across the game of course). With some of the issues I describe below being sorted, and being informed that you need to manually save I have no major problems with the game. For the price you can definitely get your money's worth from the game, and a lot of enjoyment at the same time!


PREVIOUS REVIEW ISSUES - DEV COMMENTS BELOW ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS:

First of all the dialogue is frustrating in the sense that talking to one of the other people there requires a lot of clicking to progress through it. You'll find yourself talking to or interacting with the same items multiple times and seeing the same dialgoue, but without a way to skip it.

Secondly, I'm currently stuck in one room, where I've been left on my own in a dark maze. Usually when you get stuck the others will offer you clues and assistance. This room, being alone, I have no assistance. I solved the first part and then was presented with a 2nd section which seemingly has no solution - a 6 character and numeric code with only two sets of 4 numbers as options. No doubt it's my issue not figuring it out, but my issue is that there's no assistance to help you out when you're stuck. This could just halt my progress and enjoyment through the game.

There are also hidden puzzles to solve, but no real way to interact with them. You find a piece of paper for example with a riddle on it alluring to one of the people you're with being phoney/dodgy. It ends with "I wonder who it is?". I could guess, but there's no where to input your guess and see if you're right/wrong etc... so "completing" these for the clues seems impossible. Maybe you just have to find multiple hidden clues first.

The achievements seem very specific. I believe there's 5 rooms in any play through (of 7 total) and I'm on room 4 but have had no achievements yet. I'm guessing there's some extra hidden clues or alternative progressions to find in extra play throughs.

My biggest issue occurred when I reloaded the game. Despite the game appearing to save at every "checkpoint" save screen between rooms... I reload the game and it saved nothing of my progress.

I've been a bit on the fence about this game throughout yesterday and today. On sale the game costs £3.5 and I have 3.5 hours so far so I have my money's worth. The game presents itself as an RPGMaker styled locked room/escape the room mystery. I've done a couple of these puzzles in real life and thought I'd give it a shot. The gameplay is pretty much what you'd expect; hunt around the room for clues to solve the puzzles to find keys to open the door. That's all great, fun and challenging. I came across a few issues while playing. The developer (in the comments below) has been great in responding to them and promising to work on some quality of life improvements. I'll leave these issues at the bottom as a reference. However, overall my review is to recommend this game - this game has an active, engaged developer who is passionate about their game, who talks to the playerbase and tries to improve the experience for the players. The experience is fun, quirky and as far as I know, unique. There are different endings dependent on your choices, the story is decent and the puzzles are intricate and challenging on the whole (various difficulty across the game of course). With some of the issues I describe below being sorted, and being informed that you need to manually save I have no major problems with the game. For the price you can definitely get your money's worth from the game, and a lot of enjoyment at the same time! PREVIOUS REVIEW ISSUES - DEV COMMENTS BELOW ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS: First of all the dialogue is frustrating in the sense that talking to one of the other people there requires a lot of clicking to progress through it. You'll find yourself talking to or interacting with the same items multiple times and seeing the same dialgoue, but without a way to skip it. Secondly, I'm currently stuck in one room, where I've been left on my own in a dark maze. Usually when you get stuck the others will offer you clues and assistance. This room, being alone, I have no assistance. I solved the first part and then was presented with a 2nd section which seemingly has no solution - a 6 character and numeric code with only two sets of 4 numbers as options. No doubt it's my issue not figuring it out, but my issue is that there's no assistance to help you out when you're stuck. This could just halt my progress and enjoyment through the game. There are also hidden puzzles to solve, but no real way to interact with them. You find a piece of paper for example with a riddle on it alluring to one of the people you're with being phoney/dodgy. It ends with "I wonder who it is?". I could guess, but there's no where to input your guess and see if you're right/wrong etc... so "completing" these for the clues seems impossible. Maybe you just have to find multiple hidden clues first. The achievements seem very specific. I believe there's 5 rooms in any play through (of 7 total) and I'm on room 4 but have had no achievements yet. I'm guessing there's some extra hidden clues or alternative progressions to find in extra play throughs. My biggest issue occurred when I reloaded the game. Despite the game appearing to save at every "checkpoint" save screen between rooms... I reload the game and it saved nothing of my progress.