Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

Clever puzzles, good art, fun humor, and that satisfying “WAIT… I GET IT!” feeling when everything clicks. Worth the $2.18 I paid.

Agent A: A puzzle in Disguise is a straightforward but engaging escape room type of puzzle game, where you have to observe and remember your surroundings and click on absolutely everything that’s interactable because otherwise you might miss something crucial. You’re investigating a spy in her own home and you have to disarm locks, hack devices, play the piano and feed her cat, all in order to make your way through some really clever puzzles. It’s one of the best and most visually aesthetic escape room games I’ve personally played. Cat Burglar/10.

I enjoyed this P&C game, liked the story and puzzles which weren't overly hard, but all the backwards and forwards sometimes got repetitive

Decent game. "Palate Cleanser" type game between big games. Played with KB&M.

Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise simply does not live up to the expectations I had for it, especially given both the price and the “extremely positive” reviews from other users. My point isn't that the game is outright terrible or anything to that effect, but I was decidedly underwhelmed by the whole affair. By no means did I hate it, but it’s much closer to a snack than anything I could call a substantial meal. I couldn’t say whether he was the first to come up with the idea – I very much suspect that he wasn’t – but the American essayist Jacob Geller once made the point that it makes less sense to measure a game’s worth (inasmuch as such a thing is even vulnerable to metrology) in terms of how long one spends playing it than in how long one spends thinking about it, and by that measure I fully believe that this game will fall far short of the mark. Indeed, were it not for the effort of writing this review, I suspect that I would forget this game entirely three months from now. Perhaps less And a lack of thought—not from the developers, but rather asked by them of the players—really is one of the primary issues (perhaps the capital sin) with Agent A; despite being a game more or les…

An interesting quest for one evening