Mask of Mists

I probably wont try to complete the game as getting to end game is some serious grind. Easy to miss stuff to get there. But is it a good game? Something to recommend? Yes mostly. A bit conflicting to whom though: It is very easy going and fast paced, bright and simple to understand what you need to do so perhaps younger or more casual audience. Until you realize there is a ton of stuff to do and no map and you really have to stretch you perception skills and just plain memory where everything is. At times you are so lost it remotely feels like the puzzle parts of old Dungeon Master but with free flowing movement. In the end though the game is somewhat long and hard to navigate without guides but i like this little gem anyways. I do not agree on 14.79e normal price though at all. Got this one from a bundle and that price was much more in line with what you get.

Its a very fun and short game (around 2-3 hours long). The puzzles are very fair and fun but the combat is very boring. The exploration is kinda like a metroidvania-ish and I love it. This game is pricey for 15 bucks because of how short it is but consider buying it when its on sale, its also a perfect game to give to your kids.

This would be a great puzzle game for kids if you just made all the puzzles local (no "answer lies with this thing you saw across the map a while ago" things) and maybe simplified a couple puzzles. Just name it "Mushroom mystery adventure" or something and you've got yourself kids-puzzle-game niche market gold.

Short and really fun little Escape-like game with good puzzles. Downside is the combat, removing it and it would improve the game. More short reviews for hidden gems at my curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44819215-Lesser-Known-Hidden-Gems/

[code]If you enjoyed this review, please consider following my Curator Page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33864135/]Nep's Gaming Paradise (Nepiki Gaming)[/url] for more reviews![/code] [h1]Nepiki's Stats[/h1] [table] [tr] [td]Overall length[/td] [td]Around 3-4 hours[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Overall difficulty[/td] [td]Normal difficulty[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Overall score[/td] [td]★★★☆☆[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h1]Summary[/h1] While it definitely feels like a game with lower budget at times, especially with pretty much irrelevant combat, Mask of Mists more than makes up for it with a dense, colourful world to explore, filled with action-adventure puzzling and exploring. [table] [tr] [td]--Positives--[/td] [td]--Negatives--[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][/td] [td][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Very colourful, and as a result appealing world to explore.[/td] [td]Combat might as well not exist, especially with the very low enemy variety.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Clever puzzles that kept me engaged throughout the entire playthrough.[/td] [td]Only way to restore health was through potions, which felt very limited.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Six dungeons with their own secluded puzzles.[/td] [td]Definitely feels low budget at times with menus, translation etc.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [hr] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1215280/Mask_of_Mists/

Maybe it gets better, I'm not willing to keep playing to find out. Combat is dull, you just circle around enemies and attack for 5-10 seconds until they die. As for the puzzle solving, I spent more time looking for items than actually thinking. In the first dungeon, I solved two puzzles by accident just messing around trying to learn the logic of the puzzle. After that, the way to progress into the next area involved completing a few seemingly unconnected step to get a piece of meat to feed to some vines that I didn't even know wanted meat. It felt so arbitrary that I decided this game was not for me.

Очень приятная геймплэйно, визуально и слуху игра. Отдохнуть от дел - самое то.

I had a fun time with it, but it is in need of some polish. The two biggest issues I came across are as follows: - No renewable way to get health potions, so if you run out, you're gonna be stuck reloading saves every time you get hit. - There is no map, and the forests between landmarks all look similar, so expect to be running in circles if you forget where something is unless you've got a really good sense of direction. - This one is subjective, but the endings were very underwhelming after the mystery the game was building towards with the stone bird masks and the Mask of Mist. It's either a few sentences of ||you get possessed by the mask oh no|| or ||you rescue the Archmage and go back to your normal life|| and nothing deeper than that. Which is fine if you're not in it for the story, but I was intrigued by the masks and notes, so the endings were a bit disappointing.