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(While I do not recommend the game for most people, it is a must buy for a very specific subset of people. Read on) Insert mandatory lament about no "mixed" option here. It feels petty to give a negative review to a 1.5 year old game with only 30 reviews to its name, but the buyer deserves to know what they are getting into. If you are a galaxy brained escape room enthusiast who laments that you have cleared all other offerings and that those other offerings held your hand too much- this game might be for you (but see notes below!). For the rest of you though, Escape Simulator or Escape Academy are two much better and complete packages. For context on the critiques below, I do escape rooms IRL as often as I can round up friends to do so. We have a high clear rate. I've got a balanced escape room skillset so I feel like these observations would be corroborated by your "average" escape room goer. 1. BIG LOGIC LEAPS A number of puzzles require big logic leaps. Even using the hint system (more on that below), what to do and where to do it is not always clear. 2. INCONSISTENT AND INADEQUATE HINTS There are no global hints if you are stuck, only puzzle specific hints. Hints vary wid…

Great puzzle game! It also has a cool story, graphics and voice acting. Puzzles are diverse and some are hard at first, but that's kind of the point. I also had a lot of fun playing the extremely hard minigames (don't worry, you can skip them). If you like board games don't skip the dice game. It's a really cool concept.

Great puzzles, I recomend the game to escape room fans. The visual novel part I didn't like, but you can skip it if you want.

I really wish there was a "just okay" rating. It wasn't horrible for an escape room type game, and will scratch that itch for many who are just looking for a puzzler visual novel. However, I found that several elements didn't feel flushed out and just made it hard to finish. The story was strange and grotesque. and the games were tedious or unnecessarily complex. Choices really don't matter as the game is linear and blocks progress until previous tasks are complete. I enjoyed the memory rooms, but the demon games were exhausting. At some point about half way through, I just wanted to get to the end and started skipping puzzles. Total playtime is around 5 hours so if you get it on sale, and you enjoy eccentric horror stories, then it would be a recommend. For the general puzzler audience, I think this is a pass.

I recieved this game for free to review, I apologize for taking so long to finally play it. This game has many good things. To me, the highlight is the voice acting and the ambience. I'm not a fan of the realistic gorey aesthetic, but I can't deny that it's great for this game. The voice actors were phenomenal, truly truly surprised by the quality from such a small game. There were some differences in volume that got a bit atrocious at times but everyone did an amazing job. The puzzle rooms were alright. It is true that for some of them I had to look up a guide, but there was a nice variety of puzzles and it was enjoyable most of the time. I do have to say the punching game is way too fast and I can't believe a regular young person like myself had to struggle so much with it, I worry some people are physically unable to get through that. The story is also interesting and well paced. I would have loved for a last scene where we can recall the start of the game though, because by the end I had almost forgotten about it, and I think it would have tied the game together more nicely. As it is, I feel the ending is very abrupt. Overall, I do get the vibe of zero escape coming from …

Great lower scale 999-esque game. Although it strays from the formula by including some skill based minigames, I was able to complete them with a few tries. I was able to solve all of the escape room puzzles rarely using hints, and I never needed to use every available hint. A couple of things I want to point out: parts of the tutorial area are too dim on default settings on my monitor, and Sigrid's voice is really faint compared to the other characters.