The Paradixion: Exhibition

An excellent escape room game filled with challenging puzzles. I highly recommend it.

Surreal escape-room game with minimalistic design, abstract logic puzzles and clues you need to decipher, and a helpful in-game screenshot feature to avoid backtracking. This is my first game in the series, so I’m not sure how the entries are connected. There’s no introduction or background information; you simply start the game in a room. The visual style and gameplay, however, will feel familiar to fans of the surreal or psychological escape-the-room genre, where the story is usually left open to interpretation. The gameplay revolves around clicking on the screen with a mouse. Nothing is highlighted or marked, so you’re encouraged to click on anything that stands out. Because the art style is minimalistic, each location contains only essential elements and rarely includes distracting details that might pull your attention away from solving the puzzles. Although you begin in a single room, where you can click arrows on the left and right sides of the screen to look at all four walls, you’re not actually locked inside since the door is open. Once you step outside, you realize the game offers a surprising sense of freedom. There are three floors with several rooms, which ca…

This game quite surreal, similar in nature to the Rusty Lake and Forgotten Hill games. Clues are medium to hard, but working out what to do with an object that solving a puzzle gives you can be quite tricky. The game has a camera and drawing/notetaking facility so anything resembling a clue can be captured and marked up. It's one of those games that you can dip in and out of as the mood takes you. You need to work out how the save function works first! Is it worth the price? Yes. Recommended for those that like slightly off kilter game experiences.