Escape the Home Tow‪n‬ 9+

This is a thoroughly intriguing and entertaining game, which I classify as a puzzle-like escape adventure. It comprises a perfect blend of exploring distinct, mysterious environments; decoding clues to solve enigmatic puzzles; and working out a wide variety of mini-games that increase in complexity as one progresses. The storyline was devoid of depth, but I became so lost within the gameplay that I did not notice.

I am very grateful for the generous playtime considering that the entire game can be played for free if one can refrain from purchasing any hints. Free hints accumulate, though, as players advance through the game; I didn’t need to use any hints, and I ended the game with over a dozen available hints. Ads infrequently materialize, thankfully. Even though I was often reminded to rate the game, it didn’t hinder the fluidity of progression.

If I can gripe about something, I suggest you replace the puzzles’ pictorial hints with textual hints to avoid confusion as to how the puzzles are solved. I figured them all out, but several had me scratching my head at first.

This game provided me with a high level of satisfaction. I’ll be checking out this developer’s other games.

I originally gave this game 4 Stars but amended to 3. This Escape Room version is much better than their first one, 50 Rooms.
This game they supply more hints by telling you that you need “something” to solve a certain puzzle. And they show you a picture of what is needed.
The game is pretty long and not boring. Two negatives (and they did this with 50 Rooms) is when playing a puzzle game you are not sure what to do. There is a question mark at the top that is supposed to explain how to play that puzzle. Sometimes, the explanation is still not clear and you have no idea what has to be done.
One of the last puzzles is to arrange “fan” tiles in a specific order. Their is a hint in the order but you have to randomly click on tiles for that order. Problem is that when you click on ONE tile, multiple tiles change. You could spend hours wasting time just clicking around. Very stupid and non necessary puzzle and why I changed to 3 stars.

Lots of credit there is a lot to keep you busy with hours of game play. The scenes are well thought out and functionality is mostly great. The story line makes sense. The puzzles are good but they range from super easy to infuriating. There isn’t a lot of explanation for the goals of the puzzles which I guess is ok because they’re easy enough that you can figure out eventually. It becomes a little of a beating trying to remember which room and spot you have to back to because there are a lot of open scenes at once. USE THE MAP.