Panic in Gotham City 12+

I got it off of Kickstarter after a long wait and have been eager to play this thing for a while. The premise of an Escape Room type of thing at home could’ve been hard to nail, but man, they killed it. There’s nothing really like it and it’s difficult to describe. If this is the future of AR this is the first thing that’s sold me. I hope there will be more of these!

If you like technology and apps in your puzzles and escape room from home games, play anything from Rusty Lake. Way less trouble trying to get stuff to work right. This is a fun game with a good narrative and fun puzzles, but you can get all that in ways that don't put you through all the procedural trouble of having to set up all the stuff exactly right. The app crashed multiple times for each of us on all different devices and locations, and the only way this app's high ratings makes any sense is if they asked a lot of people they know to rate them five stars. The game was an attempt to be a little too ambitious. Again, it's fun, but there are way better ways to get the same types of puzzles and stories without all the trouble.

Great box full of great puzzles (a couple stumbles toward the end), great items, ideas and great storytelling but this app must have crashed on me around 30 times. Also, I had to skip an entire puzzle simply because the app didn’t work for it. (Safe gears) Now I’ve got one more envelope to open but the app crashes right after the newscast video that starts before it saves the game. I’ve tried 6 times in a row. I guess it’s time to pack everything back in the box and probably never finish the game. Yay!