Escape Room Academy

Having just completed this game, my opinion is that it's terrible. Here are some of my grievances with it: * The game's tone is very childish. Every time you open a box (i.e. a good eight times per level), it celebrates with a dancing policewoman and her dog. Yes, game, I know I've opened a box, you don't have to be patronising about it. The voice acting doesn't help, either. * The sound options don't work properly. After sliding the voices down to zero, it still continues to play voice lines for some time. * The game comes with a timer that starts *before* you get into each level. * Many of the puzzles across the levels are extremely similar and unimaginative. Each level, for instance, involves a puzzle where you construct a picture of a key. Each level after the tutorial involves a 3x3 sliding puzzle as a finale. Each level after the tutorial involves "count the number of objects in these three groups" several times. Many levels involve three matrix puzzles (like you might see on an IQ test), each one extracting to a number between 1 and 6. For that matter, every single code you need in the game is 3 digits long. You get the idea. * Aside from the "construct a picture of a key" …

The tone of the game feels very patronizing, and I couldn't get past one of the locks because it wouldn't accept the correct answer (the amount of triangles x 11: I counted 18, and the hint said it was between 15 and 20, and none of the numbers 15-20 x 11 are accepted). Seems sloppy and doesn't inspire confidence, so I don't feel like playing any more of it unfortunately.

I don't know why but I expected more, it looks too pretty to be this basic but it's still an okay time waster if you like to use your brain to solve light puzzles for fun. Don't expect much, the price point is accurate when it comes to complexity and length.