Blue Prince

This game is a huge waste of time, I dont know why its so popular.

A unique game. I really enjoyed exploring the mansion, seeing all the effort put into the art and the puzzles and the story you unlock about the family and the world history. The pacing gets a little off at some points, but I used hints online when I was really stuck so you don't have to grind much to unlock the story and the new rooms. Truly, this game is art and I'd recommend for anyone who likes puzzles and mysteries to try it.

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The game is too random. It doesn't respect your time. I kept notes on paper, wrote clues from here and there, things from books that maybe would help in a future puzzle. Almost three pages of notes and a bunch of screenshots. That was actually fun. But I wasted more hours than I should, drafting useless rooms and deadends. Not been able to find the item I was looking for that would REALLY help the run was very frustrating. After some good rng I finally reached the end... Of course it was not the end. The game has a thousand more hours of content, most of them empty. The things the game expects from you to figure out.... It's not even funny. You literally need the stars to align in order to progress in some cases... and thats the easy part. It's not for everyone, definitely not for me. Can't recommend.

Doesn't respect your time. Launching and menu navigation take forever due to asinine fade delays. Can't save and quit without ending the day, so you either start a new run next time or have to keep the game running. The puzzles are mostly fine, but the RNG element is a gimmick that adds no value beyond just delaying your progress.

With some 12 hours of gameplay and 20ish runs, I believe that I gave the game a fair try, and am deciding to drop it. To summarize my feelings: interesting idea, frustrating beyond belief, please don't let this become a new genre of puzzle-roguelikes. At its core, I fundamentally don't like the gameplay loop. The roguelike aspect takes what would have been a pretty good mystery-mansion/escape-room styled game and transforms it into a series of the worst kinds of puzzles that a developer can create: time- and luck-gated ones. 90% of the (early) game is [Walk into a room, see what is quite obviously a puzzle, often discern the solution/intention behind it, realize that you're missing a key piece of information/item/room configuration/room position to progress it, hope that you stumble into it in a future run. Walk into a room...] over and over and over again. I'm certain that many people enjoy "chipping" away at a series of puzzles in manner... I don't. I think that it sucks, and just disrespects my time and attention. "Too bad, better luck next time" isn't an acceptable design philosophy when designing puzzle games.

Très exigeant, très lent, très aléatoire. Quand tu te coltines du theorycraft bien lourd, si en plus tu y ajoutes de la RNG c'est vite épuisant. Rien de prévu côté sauvegarde (sortir du jeu pour aller sur un Excel regarder des captures d'écran pour chaque document, c'est le contraire du fun). Peu satisfaisant passée la découverte du début, quasi aucune récompense concrète après avoir résolu un puzzle si ce n'est un autre puzzle. Les énigmes qui jouent sur les mots en anglais ça va 5 minutes. Le jeu est tellement terriblement silencieux en se baladant dans le manoir que ça en devient pesant. On a constamment l'impression de perdre son temps, soit parce qu'on réfléchit sur une énigme sans être certain d'avoir tous les éléments pour la résoudre, soit parce qu'on essaie de chercher des autres indices sans être certain qu'ils existent. J'abandonne avant la fin sans regrets