Escape Machine City: Airborne

It's pretty good, if a little simplistic. Not crème de la crème, but perfectly adequate. It may be fine to play with kids. Having them play on their own depends on their age. The thing is, the puzzles are not logic based and require knowledge about the world. The game takes certain kinds of information for granted and doesn't implement anything to look up. Roman numerals for example. Also, it teaches gamefied thinking, which isn't necessarily a desirable thing to learn. By that I mean, it makes you see purpose everywhere, for this world was made for you. I don't think that is of educational value, because it has no bearing on the real world.

EMSA is a rather enjoyable puzzle game that’s more on the casual side. You explore small rooms to find items, interact with objects and solve minor puzzles in order to open a gate to the next level. There are 15 such chapters with all the rooms connected to one another. It’s so cool when you transition to the next chapter, you see a zoomed out view of the entire airship and movements towards the next area. As a whole, the game is decent but it doesn’t excel at any particular aspect. There are also 2 minor flaws: the hints are different than what you would expect and progress is not saved while in a chapter, you have to complete a chapter. I found out about the latter when I had to quit early once. It’s not too big of a deal as most chapters are very short between 10 and 15 minutes. As for the hint system, it only shows you where to go next, not how to solve a puzzle. Although most of the puzzles were simple, there are some minor confusing or unclear parts towards the last third of the game. The game doesn’t really have problems but it doesn’t have a unique selling point either. If you want a quick puzzle game to get busy with for a while, then this one fits the bill. I’ve completed it in about 2 hours, the achievements are unmissable too. The price of €5 is okay, the €1 that I paid was worth it. I had a good time but it’s one of those games I’m going to forget about quickly.