Laqueus Escape 4+

Update: Changing my rating to 4 stars. Figured out a workaround for the peg game by closing the app completely and restarting. This allowed one chance to place a peg in the location I wanted. Got thru the puzzle after a few tries using this method.
Overall the game was fun.
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Chapter 6 has a toy peg game that’s very glitchy. Can’t proceed without solving it first. Thru trial & error I found the correct placement for the first peg and was working on the second to correctly bounce the button out of its resting place. On resetting the game to try again I could no longer place the first peg where I wanted it. This game seemed to change and get more difficult to impossible to complete as I got closer to solving it (very bad form). There’s no response with several peg locations and those that will allow placement of a peg don’t work to solve the puzzle.

The worst escape game i have ever played and I’ve played too many too count so…pretty bad. Graphics and audio are decent but thats the only thing going for it. The devs apparently love giving math problems that could be interpreted in numerous ways but don’t give any context for how to properly interpret the problem without hints. The hints they give are often condescending and mostly useless. They also love giving you hints for problems you’ve already solved. The camera angles are terrible and the game gets super nit picky about the angle you have to look in order to move to another area. Too many moments where you obviously made a change and hear a noise signifying something has moved but it doesn’t give you any idea of where that change occurred. Information overload can sometimes be good but this game loves to give info overload in the form of showing multiple separate puzzle’s clues all at once…all the time, making it difficult to understand what clues are for which puzzle. The game tries selling you with the graphics and animations but falls severely short on what makes an escape game an escape game. Extremely poor execution of game design and understanding of the genre. If i could give negative stars, I would. So I’ll just say it. -2/5 stars.

This is an impressively full game to be ad-supported, so thank you for making it available without a price tag. There are lots of awesome puzzles. My favorite chapter was the one with the computer within the computer. These developers have many great games in their future. Criticism: The music is creepy. I was glad that the game wasn't creepy, even with the post-industrial aesthetic. I muted it though because of the creepy music. in Chapter 6, it became a little tedious going back and forth to places on the map repeatedly, up and down the elevator. My biggest criticism is not about the game, but about the Homicide Squad ads. It's really unpleasant to be interrupted to see a picture of a gruesome murder. What I liked most about the game is that it had puzzles and art as good as Glitch games, but without any horror (people are getting sick of horror games!!). If you had a narrative/story element to your next game, it will make it a full-fledged adventure. Thank you. Very good game. I just got the paid version after playing to support the developers.