The game starts off confusing, it doesn’t tell you have to tap to make it go, I thought that my game froze for a bit, but turns out, I had to tap to make the starting cut scene go. It also gives you no instructions on how to do anything. You have to watch an ad for that. The first “puzzle”, with the jacket, I got stuck bc I didn’t know I could/had to shake it. The game should at least give you a prompt for that, bc it’s a game mechanic, instead of treating it like a hint. And don’t get me started on the ufo puzzle, again, it doesn’t tell you that the game has tilt controls, so I was stuck on that forever, wondering why the ufo wouldn’t move, and the numbers puzzle before that, I have no idea how that even works.

It’s a good game and has some clever puzzles. I liked the general difficulty. But there are a few puzzles that can ruin the experience. Listed below: SPOILERS: The colored numbers puzzle: it’s always annoying when you have to distinguish between 3 types of blue and green and white vs yellow and pink vs red in a dimly lit game. The steam puzzle: the red pipe and blue pipe are switched The ‘math’ puzzle: the operator of x_y is (x+1)*y-1. This means that 10_9=98. Then 98*9=882. The number instead is 891

Don’t listen to the complainers. I have played every decent escape game out there (and a bunch of bad ones too) and this game is almost on par with Glitch Games’ stuff - maybe not as long and a little less layered, but certainly challenging. The puzzles are medium to difficult and many of the clues are subtle. The bulk of the solutions are number-oriented which can get a little old but that’s about the only drawback. I was able to play through without hints (the math section was hard) and managed to finish in about eight hours. Great for a free game for sure.

Basically you have to buy hints to win this game… then hope the hints make sense. I’m good at math but some of the math problems were ridiculous and one literally had “wrong” math. Another puzzle had the wrong “clue” under the item you have to use to solve it (the colored light bulbs in room one.. you’ll see what I mean when you get to the hallway.) There is no logical sense to the clues or what you are supposed to do with items once you find them. I quit halfway through even after buying the 25 hint pack. It’s THAT bad. All that being said, the Scary House 1 & 2 by the same developers were great.. go figure