NOX – Escape Games 12+

Very good escape game although I would not have completed it without hints. Started off fairly easy and got harder but still doable, but the last few rooms were just too complicated for me. Personally I don’t see how anyone could get the last puzzle without hints - I got that the monitors showed rooms but which rooms to pick? They showed 8 rooms and you have to pick 3. The file gave hints to 3 rooms but those letters didn’t work. Still, I enjoyed it and I love that you can choose NOT to have targeted ads, and still play the game. More devs should also this. The ads that were played were not very frequent and sometimes actually reminded me to have a break, which isn’t a bad thing! As with all games recently though, I found myself resorting to a magnifying glass or screenshots and zoom ins to see some of the important clues properly. Some kind of zoom in function would be useful for those of us with poorer eyesight! Also, the fast travel function is very useful and should be available much earlier - there’s no puzzle in having to scroll through rooms back and forth to check clues again, it’s just annoying! Finally, I thought the ending was rubbish, sorry devs but it was just pointless in my opinion.

So I really enjoy the point and click escape games, and thought I’d give this a go as seemed my style and good reviews. The graphics and visuals plus music are really good, couldn’t fault it. The actual play through was also enjoyable, and fairly challenging at points, although the hints were really helpful with a progression so they were actually hints and not just giving the game away. I dislike being able to click on things/zoom in and them be irrelevant while somethings you can’t open/interact with etc so sometimes the lack of consistency made it a little harder to be certain which bits would be helpful. Unfortunately, my game glitches a few times (don’t know if my device or game or other) so missed out on some of the snow globe stories and one or two dialogue bars when exploring, requiring restarting the game. Also, I might just be dumb, but I had to skip a few of the mini games as I couldn’t work out how or what I was supposed to do properly. Finally, although I did enjoy the culmination of the story, I had to look up more of an explanation to the ending as it was a bit too confusing. Most of this is me just being a bit nit picky but overall I really enjoyed this, and would definitely play a sequel or similar game by the developers. I think it took me 3-4 hours with some distractions etc to finish it totally which was great for me really. So yeah, definitely recommend!

At first I didn’t like the graphics style (pixelation) but soon got used to it and realised it was a puzzle element. I found the game very engrossing. The puzzles had me puzzled a lot! Fortunately someone had posted a walkthrough which I really needed sometimes. Three of the mini-games were extremely frustrating - the ones where you had to manoeuvre things into place - almost gave up a couple of times and was convinced there was a glitch - but there wasn’t! It took me a while to realise I could ‘fast travel’ between rooms, which saved a lot of bother. The ending was a bit daft but that didn’t spoil anything. The 30 second ads were very annoying. But all in all a very enjoyable way to spend time not doing all the things that should be done. And free! Thank you Developers :-)