Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room

50% off I enjoyed the game. There is about 60-90 minutes of gameplay and various logic puzzles to solve. Most are pretty straightforward and simple to solve, however there are a couple that will have you think for a few minutes before the solution clicks. Fun to figure out and play.

My wife and I have been playing through all the Escape Room games created by MC Games. We've been pleasantly surprised! They're all fleshed out really well, wit a good variety of puzzles and some really good theming. You can see the developers showing growth with each game they release, adding in more interesting and technical puzzles. The vice acting isn't the best, but it's also a tiny part of the game that it makes it funny rather than distracting or upsetting. Would reccommend, especially for the price point!

The story is some BS. [spoiler]I would've voluntarily starved to death; it's not like the AI can do a thing about it.[/spoiler] But that's okay, since the puzzles are good. Most are pretty simple. The only thing you really need to know is that one of the puzzles provides a list of indices. The other puzzles can be solved through good observation. Definitely looking forward to more.

算是合格的作品，有點短但可以一玩

Je vais me permettre une critique négative pour une fois, comme le jeux est tout de même bien noté et a déjà 6 ans. J'ai trouvé le jeux ultra facile, certains puzzle sont complètement obvious ou la solution est littéralement donnée exactement dans l'environnement. Aucun puzzle n'a de cohérence avec le thème, ils auraient pu faire concrètement les même puzzles dans une pyramide, cela n'aurait rien changé. L'environnement est vraiment barebone, sans fluf, sans des masses d'effort, et les puzzle et "indices environnementaux" n'y sont absolument pas intégrés : généralement écrits en lettre rouge sur les murs... Mais rien de tout ça n'est une surprise, les autres review donnent déjà le ton, si je m'étais donné la peine de les lire. Dommage que ça ne me donne pas envie de jouer aux autres jeux de ces 2 devs.

Pretty Good puzzle, a little pretentious story. Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room is a scifi game about solving puzzles to unravel a mystery. As is true with most escape room games, the set dressing is just an excuse for making interesting puzzles, but that doesn't mean it doesn't impact how the game feels. The majority of puzzles in this game are solid, even if they could usually use a little more sign posting for how to solve things. This game falls into the trap of making most puzzles difficult to accomplish, rather than difficult to figure out and easy to solve. Most of the puzzles difficulty comes from noticing minor details, or connecting disparate items that aren't related that are supposed to be hints to puzzle solutions. A great puzzle game should be able to point you towards the clues and the puzzle without giving away the answer, and that's not the case here. Luckily, none of the puzzles in this game felt impossible to figure out given the clues in the room, but there were a few times I searched a room for minutes finding nothing, only to look up the walkthrough hint to see that a seemingly inocuous element in the room was actually a clue to a puzzle. The main issue is that there is a lot of set dressing in the game, so there's no clear distinction between what's important in a room and what isn't. The only thing that I think is bad is the story. i won't spoil it here, but it really doesn't make any sense and tries to be a lot deeper than it is. You can have a deep story, but it's pretty hard to give it weight when you're solving a bunch of puzzles that nothing to do with each other or the story. You won't get much out of the story, but it won't ruin the game either.

不曉得是因為早期遊戲的緣故，謎題要靠近點擊一個圖案才能開始，解謎過程也不能翻閱筆記，得退出，看一次筆記或手寫紀錄，再進去謎題一次。有些謎題的視角也很奇怪，明明沒有其他參照物在旁邊要對照著看，但謎題卻不是放在正中央，而是在側邊。 最討厭的是西洋棋謎題，提示有夠不清楚的，即使切回英文也不知道他到底指的是什麼意思。 整個氛圍營造一種驚悚、微微恐怖的感覺，搭配牆上的血跡文字，就好像有什麼恐怖的東西在周圍，結果只是虛驚一場，沒有 Jump Scare，但玩完不會有成就感而是空虛感，因為劇情嚴格上來說，只是原地打轉。