My screen was too small to see anything, I had to tap randomly and just see what went into inventory. Often, it was a squinty speck-like thing so I didn’t even know what it was. I was playing the free version to check it out, but Ads kept popping up randomly and too frequently, not between scenes or levels, but just “Tah-dah— behold! An ad!” Only in the second scene, the third ad popped up. I hadn’t even figured much out yet, and another ad. I gave up.

I have been playing different ARPAPlus escape games. The first one I played I loved so I kept downloading & playing their others. This one was my 4th. It is HORRIBLE! I only got half way through the first level & deleted it & came to write this! The items in inventory don’t highlight when you click on them & you can’t click on them & then touch where you want it like most. Instead you have to drag it to where you want it, which is fine. But, it’s kind of annoying because it doesn’t always work when dragging it there & I have to drag it a few times. Items that go together make no sense. Why would combining a magnet & rope open the wooden doors or even allow you to climb over them? How does putting a key inside a piece of broken off wood banister to make a crowbar make sense? Then when you’re inside the bathroom, it has you combine a mop, plunger, & duct tape to make some weird contraption that apparently unplugs the tub. Why the plunger itself couldn’t do that I don’t know. It just makes no sense. Then I had 3 different keys I found & had multiple doors to open with keys, yet none of the 3 keys I had apparently opened the different doors. I looked up a walkthrough & one was supposed to open a door, but I couldn’t get it to open it even dragging it to it multiple times. I was done at that point. Other ARPAPlus games are great, but NOT this one! Get Asylum or Scary Horror or one of their others.

I like it fine. I love being challenged but there are some things that make it frustrating instead of fun. For instance, once I’ve collected an object, it goes into the inventory and gets so tiny I can’t tell what it is. That would be no problem if, like most games, it would give me text saying what it is on a mouse over or whatever. But instead I have to squint and guess, which is extra aggravating when I need to construct an object and can’t see what i have. On top of that, there’s just a lot that isn’t intuitive. I like difficulty if there’s a logic to it, but often it feels random.

The game looks pretty good but the gameplay is difficult with puzzles that are unclear on how to resolve. One is some kind of chemistry experiment and the book shows combining colors of chemicals that are not there. I watched a video to get a free hint and it was an arrow pointing at the door to the room I was already in. Another “hint” is an arrow point at the alphabet chart on a wall. After solving the doll puzzle, a light appears with 3 circles but I can’t zoom in to get a better looks I have no idea what that means. Also, some of the dialogue appears to be in Russian?