TR-49

I beat it, but I finished it hating the game. At first, it's super intriguing. I was really pulled in by the story, characters, and mystery. Unfortunately, the farther I got, the worse the experience became. Firstly, the puzzle logic is all over the place and often undersignaled...like you're expected to read the designer's mind rather than follow clues, piece breadcrumbs together, and arrive at a satisfying solution. Additionally, too many clues felt like obscure needles in a haystack for such a short game, especially when the game puts significant emphasis on specific things that are clearly there to throw you off track. It comes off as cheesy and poorly designed. The game also makes brute-forcing codes easier and more tempting than actually solving its puzzles. I was able to avoid the temptation most of the time, but it's a terrible design choice for a game where tiny hints buried in pages of text can be essential to understanding the story and progressing. This can happen by accident as well! The code input device doesn't reset after entering a code, so while typing a new one, the leftover characters can accidentally form another valid code and immediately send you to a page…

Very nice explorative puzzle game, the last puzzle had me stumped for a while because of a missunderstanding.

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A very compelling mystery where the gameplay quickly got me fully into the game to the point I often missed chances to speak to Liam since I was too focused connecting dots in the manuscripts. Definitely worth a try if you enjoy a good puzzle, detective game, just pay attention to what you are typing!

Deduction gameplay is fun, but the story and in particular the ending doesn't quite land. On the other hand it's not very expensive. Don't buy if you don't like reading because it's like 95% of the gameplay.

Really nice puzzle game