In The Space - Escape Room

The primarily reason one would want to play this genre of games is the puzzles, so let's quickly cover everything else to get them out of the way so we can focus on the puzzles. The graphics are a little above average for an indie game, though nothing spectacular. The environments are interesting, although a little on the noisy side which can make it difficult to tell when something is supposed to be interactable versus just decoration. The music is sufficient for the job, but nothing remarkable. The story is about average for this genre, a backdrop provided to barely provide motivation, but generally not worth paying attention to. Again, none of this is all that important, and a game can still be range anywhere from terrible to fantastic despite all of the above, depending on the puzzles. Unfortunately, In The Space Escape Room (ITSER)'s puzzle design is often very lacking. A lot of the puzzles involve giving you some visual cue (often just somes numbers), and then asking you to guess the answer, which is itself a sequence of numbers. For example, you might be given the clue "3827" and now your job is to guess the answer, which is itself a four digit number. There simply isn…

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] A single-player escape room game with some surprisingly good puzzles, brought down by a lot of lazy puzzles and a few broken ones. If this game looks familiar, that's because it's made using an "escape room toolkit" purchasable on the Unity store, and used by a lot of other Steam games (the best of which are created by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=mc2games]mc2games[/url]). As mentioned, this game [i]does[/i] have some great puzzles. Unfortunately, most of them are neutral to bad. • The worst example is the "digits" puzzles towards the beginning, which has literally [i]no[/i] correct solution. The developer missed an important detail [i](the flat edge of some of the pieces)[/i] in their own puzzle. • Another puzzle (the "diagonal numbers" puzzle towards the end of the game) is [i]extremely[/i] underspecified, to the point that I think you need to be clairvoyant to solve it without using a hint. • There are also several puzzles with multiple valid solutions. A logic puzzle involving shirt/pants colo…

Poorly designed puzzles, often the puzzles are too easy (shows answer on 2 screens, asks you to enter it) or they are layered behind incomplete logic. There were puzzles that appeared to not have enough info or even an incorrect solution even looking at the intended solution after the fact as well as a lot of puzzles that require strange assumptions to guess the answers they were intending. The puzzles were often so vague that I ended up trying a few theories as shots in the dark since I got the gist of what to do but it was ambiguous as to which way the intended interpretation was. There is also way too much repetition, such as the "flip all switches down" puzzle which was used over 5 times at least. A lot of the puzzles were also poorly designed, which very minimal steps required for the final solution. The graphics as well are clearly trying to copy the look and style of a game by "mc2games" even using some of the same assets, sounds, and GUIs. however it feels more like a prototype version of it as all the textures are flat and can be hard to spot what is and isn't a puzzle. puzzle elements also seem arbitrarily spread around the room. for example you solve one puzzle and it p…

A long game with plenty of puzzles! Feels like an escape room but what exactly you are trying to escape from i couldnt tell you

Fantastic escape room(s) game. Lots of rooms, graphics really sharp and fitting for the game setting. Lots of puzzles ranging from simple to fiendishly hard. The puzzles are a mix of similar puzzles to those found in all of this type of game, some with a novel twist, and new puzzles I hadn't seen before. I got caught out when having solved one particularly hard puzzle the next one was so simple I though there had to be a catch! Worth every penny of the asking price. Well done devs, I hope you produce more games of this quality.

completed in 5.5 hours. + no game breaking bug but charcters almost stuck when drawer opens. - some puzzles are repetitive. > math > standard lore