The Inheritance of Crimson Manor

Glitchy, puzzles can be repetitive

A decent Myst-like game, where you walk around a mansion solving puzzles that don't make much sense. Strangely, many of the puzzles can only be solved by brute force, which I eventually got used to, but was confusing at first. There are a lot of visual bugs, which are forgivable, but also a few bugs where things you're supposed to click on don't register the clicks, or where their hitboxes are in the wrong place so you have to click nearby them to click on them. Several times I had to consult a guide to discover that I had found what I needed, I just hadn't hovered over it just right to be able to click on it. What pushed this into "do not recommend" for me is that at the climax of the game, you walk toward a giant set piece surrounded by notes that explain everything, and on the way you pass a wrench, and if you click on the wrench it immediately ends the game without you getting to see the set piece or read any of the notes. I immediately force quit the game when this happened so I could load back in and see all that stuff, but apparently it had already erased my save from finishing the game, because when I came back in my only option was to start a new game. So I missed seeing…

I am not big into typical horror games because I have the backbone of spaghetti and can't handle jump scares, but this checked every box and no jump scares/monsters included! The puzzles were fun, the house intriguing, and the mystery unexpected! Overall, I'd definitely recommend- but mostly on sale price!

Quite fun escape room game. Nice puzzles and well crafted clues for them. I had a good time playing this one.

I really liked this game, a bit grindy sometimes with backtracing, yet enjoyable. Sort of a "meh" ending but nothing to complain after all. Good in every aspect.

EDIT 2: So after resetting from getting my save corrupted, I managed to finish the game anyway. I like the puzzles. They are interesting and not really that hard (but that mask felt like something was wrong like that Green Gentleman taking to a Woman to his Right, sounding more like to the LEFT). Anyway, what I do not like was actually the ending? It just feels like not rewarding to me. Choosing between two options was okay. But the cutscenes felt too abrupt. After a long puzzle-solving stuff, I only get short cutscenes. It also felt lacking. Like finishing the legacy one felt like it needed more impact to their surrounding since whatever the father did impacted some others. While the other just gave me a smirk. But yea, I like the puzzles. Redoing everything was easy actually. Just takes a lot of time after the corruption of my files. EDIT: It appears that the save file got corrupted from the power outage, affecting the whole game whenever you try to play it even though it was only the save file. Thus, if you do not manually delete the save file, you won't be able to play it. WELP. All those 5 hours of gameplay. I had to redo everything again. Oh well... I recommend for puzzle-s…