Escape the Red Curse

Escape the Red Curse is a short escape room game where you play as one of the mediums trapped inside a cursed apartment. You need to explore the rooms, find hidden items and your missing teammates, solve puzzles, and remove curses. Regular curses are removed by entering a hidden symbol that you have to find before time runs out. There are also black curses. During these events, you need to quickly press five heads that look like Behelits from Berserk before they close their eyes. After that, they will show a specific emotion. Finding the correct symbols by guessing is not easy: after each try, the symbol changes, and mistakes deal damage. If you make too many mistakes, you will die (dont worry, the progress will be saved). But you can always brute-force the code locks if you are missing a number. The visuals may not be for everyone, but personally, it was not a problem for me. I did not like the background music, and there were also some problems with the volume settings: even if you turn the music down to zero, it starts playing again after some time. Overall, the game was better than I expected. It has a decent story, nice puzzles, and a good atmosphere. However, I did not like the curse-lifting mechanic, it felt more annoying than fun. Follow Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44793303-The-games-that-I%2527ve-played/]The games that i`ve played[/url]

Escape the Red Curse is a fantastic indie horror adventure that kept me engaged from start to finish. The atmosphere is one of the game's strongest points, creating a constant sense of tension and mystery without relying solely on jump scares. The environments are detailed and immersive, and the story gradually unfolds in a way that makes you want to keep exploring to discover what happened. The puzzles are well-designed, challenging enough to be satisfying but not so difficult that they become frustrating. I especially enjoyed the sound design and soundtrack, which add a lot to the eerie mood. The developers clearly put effort into creating a unique experience with memorable locations and interesting lore. If you enjoy horror games with exploration, puzzles, and a compelling story, Escape the Red Curse is definitely worth playing. It's a hidden gem that deserves more attention from the gaming community. Highly recommended!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, 10/10

You wake up in an apartment with another person nearby and a phone ringing. After answering it, you hear a voice telling you that you need to save everyone and find a way out. It turns out that you and four other people are part of a team dealing with paranormal activity. After trying to get rid of whatever possessed the apartment, you lost part of your memory and ended up trapped inside. Escaping is your first priority, but some doors and objects have squares drawn on them with colored chalk. They come in three colors, and trying to interact with them without the right chalk will hurt you. If you get hurt three times in quick succession, you'll die, although you can recover by waiting a few moments between hits. Death sends you back to the main menu, but it's nowhere near as punishing as it sounds because you can simply press Continue and jump back in, without losing any progress. The controls are standard for a first person game. You can move around, crouch, and interact with objects. Nothing is highlighted, so you have to get close, aim the dot in the center of the screen at an object, and wait for an interaction prompt to appear. There is plenty to examine, and you never know what might turn out to be important. Most interactions simply give you a short comment, while others unlock new conversation topics with your colleagues or the strange frog-like creature locked inside a cage. These conversations often point you in the right direction or reward you with useful items. Some items can also be picked up directly from the environment, and anything you collect stays in your inventory even after dying. Using items is a little different. First, you need to interact with a specific spot that opens a close up view and displays an inventory button in the corner of the screen. I actually liked this approach because it's the game's way of telling you an item can be used there. The inventory icon doesn't appear anywhere else. Once you open it, you select the item and then click the spot where you want to use it. Since the protagonist never comments on what they're doing, the only feedback is whether something happens or nothing happens at all. Your overall goal is to search the apartment and find the items needed to break the curse. The most important ones are the three colored chalks. Once you have the correct chalk and interact with a cursed door or object, the game starts a timed sequence where the room fills with fog or darkness and you need to search for clues. The solution is randomized every time, so you can't brute force these sections by memorizing the answer. Even the locations of the clues change with each attempt. Entering the wrong sequence hurts you just like touching a cursed object without the correct chalk, while entering the correct one removes the curse and lets you continue. Sadly, these chalk puzzles are easily the weakest part of the game. The white chalk puzzle asks you to find glowing runes hidden inside a gray, fog-filled room. They're incredibly difficult to spot. I struggled even in a tiny bathroom where there were barely any places to look, and I honestly started wondering whether the game was even displaying the runes properly. The only real strategy is to keep retrying until the runes spawn in more obvious places, which becomes increasingly frustrating when a curse requires several runes. The black chalk puzzle is a bit better. It asks you to wake up five severed heads before they fall asleep again. Since some drift off almost immediately, you have to walk back and forth while repeatedly pressing the interaction button until they all display the same expression, which you then enter into the cursed object. The problem is that you can't run, only walk, so success depends a lot on getting a favorable layout with the heads close together. Thankfully, the final red chalk puzzle avoids these issues and doesn’t come with any mechanic. The other major part of the game consists of traditional puzzles. Some are straightforward and ask you to rotate pieces to form an image or repeat a sequence. They're generally fine, except for the pizza puzzle. It requires you to remember the order in which pizza slices pop up, but the sequence plays so quickly that I couldn't memorize it. I ended up recording it on my phone and replaying it in slow motion. Other puzzles require entering numbers hidden somewhere in the environment. The game rarely gives you hints or nudges you in the right direction, so you constantly have to pay attention to suspicious details such as flower petals, markings, or numbers printed on a map. With enough patience and stubbornness, you can finish the game in around two hours. The exact playtime depends largely on how much luck you have with the chalk puzzles.

I think game is very nice, not overcomplicated Had struggle with 'Curse' at start but after understood how enable it, become more interesting

Game has it's own atmosphere, it's enriched with deep story, interesting dialogues. Recommend this.

I am already 4 hours into the game and there's still a lot of puzzles to crack. I really enjoy the diversity of the puzzles but the graphics of this game are very raw-ish so you can tell that no AI has been used to develop this game... maybe that's a good thing as there's AI everywhere now or maybe the developer just doesn't know how to use AI properly, idk. Anyway, a solid game, keep on developing!

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