5 Minutes Until Self-Destruction

Pretty fun little puzzle game. Good stuff

🔹 EXPECTATIONS: a full-fledged escape room game. 🔹 REALITY: a prototype of a game. 🔶 5 minutes until self-destruction (5MUSD) takes us to a space station that's going to explode in 5 minutes, unless we stop the sequence. That's all the setting, no backstory, no characters introductions, no reasons why it's going to explode or why we need to stop it, instead of escaping. If we fail to stop the sequence within that time, the station explodes and we'll need to restart from the beginning, but even if we stop it from exploding, we still need to escape (¿?). 🔸 To achieve this goal, we'll need to roam around the station to soon realise the locked doors are controlled by a panel (a puzzle) somewhere else, solving the puzzle unlocks a door that grants access to another puzzle, and so on for a handful of times. Not the most exciting structure, but the worst is the simplicity of the puzzles, if they can even be called that. There are 7 in total and some have their solution randomized, which doesn't make them more exciting but tedious, once we fail near the end and have to repeat them from the start. 🔸 The layout of the station, which is mostly empty, doesn't make much sense either, in the shape of a hand, with a central area that connects the 4-5 corridors that lead to the panels. 🔸 5MUSD reminds me of 'Access denied' and how it evolved and improved in 'Access denied: escape'. As a concept of something more developed, complex and interesting, it's ok-ish, but as a full finished paid game falls short in almost every aspect, and I can't recommend it. POSITIVES: 🙂+ 😄+ 😍+ NEGATIVES: 🙁- 😠- 😡- uninteresting puzzles