Escape from Norwood 12+
Michael Giraud
Designed for iPad
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- $5.99
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Description
Explore the city and observe its inhabitants as their lives play out around you, in a world where the only discrimination is based on the order of birth.
Cursed with a magic which does not fit within the five cardinal aelic callings, 13-years old Lecia has to hide from the guards and find a way out of the city. Yet this magic will allow her to sneak into places and observe plots and schemes that could shake the foundations of Magistan, as the Empress’ progress approaches Norwood. What secret ties her family and the empire?
Mostly text-based, but showcasing detailed 2D backgrounds for its 500 locations, Escape from Norwood lets you free to explore the world and try to combine hundreds of items in any way you want, to trigger unexpected effects on the lives of its 200 characters. This freedom comes with simplicity: no keyboard ever shows up, simply tap on someone, something or somewhere to see the possible interactions and choose among them… for dozens of hours of fun and discovery.
Main features:
- The game is not accessible on mobile platforms.
- Feel the depth of a classic text adventure, redesigned for modern platforms and optimized for touch screens.
- Explore a world that moves without your input, as inhabitants live their lives in real time around you.
- Interact with every character and every object through a modern, keyboard-less UI.
- Open world freedom: journey through the city and explore every nook and cranny on your own terms.
- Register important information in your diary, do your missions in any order.
- Automated hint system so you never feel lost about what to do next.
- Uncanny spells: master the powers of a Shroud to move unseen throughout the city and spy on its secrets.
What secret ties her family and an empire where the only discrimination is based on the order of birth?
What’s New
Version 3.0.1
- Fixed an issue with the display of a long diary
Ratings and Reviews
It was listed as being accessible to the blind, and it is not.
I bought this game because it was listed under games that are accessible to the blind. It does not work with voiceover. If you fix this, I will change this review.
Developer Response ,
Hello,
I’m very sorry about this experience. The mobile version is indeed not accessible, only the desktop version is. The game is too complex to be accessible without a keyboard. Where did you see it listed as accessible on mobile platforms so that I can ask for a correction? Also, you may reach out to the email on the game’s website and I can send you over a key to access the Steam version for free.
Breaking Out The Children Failure
This game is honestly not prepared for app format and it shows. I’m seriously disappointed because the story is interesting, the lore is intriguing, and I want to continue the game. But I’m not allowed to continue because the developer never found a way to get our dumb tiny protagonist to cross the rapids for the critical “Breaking Out the Children” mission.
Enjoy the game up to that mission (except never visit the arena or you will become locked in an invisible portal that you cannot escape without restarting the game), but don’t expect to progress that point since the protagonist cannot swim and refuses to hop on rocks no matter how far away we begin our running start from. Bummer. I will be pursuing a refund in the hopes that this glitch isn’t present in the PC version.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for sharing your feedback. I've got good news for you: the game was developed on mobiles first, before being ported to desktop, so it was not only prepared, but built for app format.
The issues you encounter are not bugs: the protagonist can learn how to swim, and if you look at the hints within your diary it will help you find out how. Similarly, you can exit the arena if you wait through the fight that triggers when you enter (you can of course speed up time if you're not interested in the details of the fight). I re-tested both things right now and they worked fine.
If you unfortunately ran into a bug and what should work doesn't on your device, please reach out to me directly through any of the means displayed on the game's website so we can sort this out without tanking the game's ratings.
I hope this helps.
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Information
- Seller
- Michael Giraud
- Size
- 266.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © 2023 SIngular Works
- Price
- $5.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.