Summertime Madness

Visually It's really nice looking game and the colors are even my vibe. Story wise It's good either but since this game is based in Prague and I do live in The Czech Republic I know that The Bombing of Prague didn't happen in July 1945 but in February 1945 cause in July the Prague was already under the Soviet flag saved from Nazi Germany. Over these good points the game isn't good in gameplay. The puzzles are nothing but tedious. Collecting 30 fireflies to build stairs? WTH?

i wanted to enjoy this game. played it during a indie fest iirc and only got around to playing it 2 years later. but the puzzles arent really puzzles, more of a test of endurance. nothings intellectually stimulating and just feels like a bore. not to mention, the controls for some of these are really jank making the puzzles much more infuriating than they otherwise should be (looking at the flower scales specifically here). yeah i could look up answers just to get through it quickly to see what the end is but the story isnt interesting enough for me to care to do so. game does look really nice though, especially with the paint effect ill give it that

Difficulty : 2/5 (Normal) Global : 0.5/5 (Bad) Summertime Madness is a 3D puzzle game, you're a painter trapped in his painting and you solve puzzles to escape. The game has a timer, or rather you're supposed to play with a timer (the lowest "difficulty" disables it fortunately). I don't understand the timer thing when you have a world to explore and collectibles to find but whatever. Even with the worst timer (3h) you should be good. The island you see in the screenshots can be explored but the game is not an open world, it's linear with puzzles appearing one by one. Now what are those puzzles about? What's the special mechanic? Well, there is none. The majority of them consists of slowly exploring a big maze and pulling levers that activate things. And that's why I can't recommend this game. Maybe if the running speed was 2 or 3 times faster, the game would've been decent. That's a shame because it's not VERY bad, the mazes are not totally braindead but the gigantic amount of time you waste walking is just not acceptable. Summertime Madness is a collection of tedious and not very interesting puzzles, and games that blatantly try to waste your time are a big no.

It looks quite nice but that's about it. tedious, long walking sections and a lot of backtracking, pulling levers here and there, mazes... some of the mechanics dont even make any sense. i.e. how am I supposed to know that I have to set the audio volume to zero in the game settings to progress the game at one point? I lowered mine cause the sound was annoyingly loud. but to zero? who comes up with this? I quit probably somewhere mid to end game....I dont know and dont care tbh - was just not fun.

UEVR not working with this.

flipping switches hurts my brain but it's probably worth the $1 on sale https://youtu.be/QKOtyK_V0Lg