Escape First Alchemist: Prologue

This is just a VERY short demo and that is what i judge. Altho the game has potential it is way to linear to offer even a minimal challenge and the way i experience it, also buggy. The gameplay is not intuitive at all eventho a game of this kind imo almost depends on it to not make me get annoyed and quit. I can understand if someone likes it superficially and buys it but ive seen several games that are like this but better. For me to get tempted the gameplay and convos need A LOT of work and the demo needs to be longer, cos if the rest of the game is like this its completely pointless and not even worth spending/wasting time on even if it was free... This simply does not make me want to spend any money at all on it.

Fun puzzles. Love the sense of humor and the alchemy corner. Absolutely going back for the full game.

"Escape First Alchemist: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Escape First Alchemist". Escape First Alchemist is a poorly made first person escape room game, which, despite the okay-looking graphics (which may be flipped, who knows) was very badly designed, as you just get told what you have to do and follow it along, so don't expect a lot of puzzle solving. Certainly, games that are too obtuse are a problem, but the other extreme is a problem too. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Escape First Alchemist, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Escape First Alchemist: Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $10 USD on buying Escape First Alchemist, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 9 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

Pretty cool for a demo, nice and short. Seems promising, I kind of want to see how the real lab looks like

Игра 'Escape First Alchemist: Prologue' - это увлекательное и атмосферное вступление в мир алхимии и загадок. Несмотря на короткую продолжительность, пролог сумел зацепить интересной историей и хорошо продуманными головоломками. Меня порадовал детальный интерьер алхимической лаборатории, который создаёт нужное настроение и погружает в игровой процесс. Головоломки логичные, но требуют внимательности и умения находить взаимосвязи между предметами. Подсказки реализованы неплохо, но лучше стараться обходиться без них, чтобы полностью насладиться поиском решений. Единственный минус - это, пожалуй, слишком быстрая проходимость. Хотелось бы больше времени провести в этой атмосфере, решая более сложные задачи. Тем не менее, как бесплатный пролог, 'Escape First Alchemist' отлично справляется со своей задачей - заинтриговать и побудить к приобретению полной версии. Рекомендую всем любителям квестов и escape-room игр.

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