Reverse Escape Room: Archaeologists Sanctum

Very short puzzle game that might consider lowering its price. You can move and interact just like in any other first-person game. The location is quite small, so identifying interesting spots should be easy. You can only explore a bar and an office. Hotspots are not identified, although they do receive a faint highlight when your cursor passes over them. When you click on a hotspot, you can pick up an object or use something. To use items from the inventory at the top of the screen, you must first "lock" the screen. This unfreezes the mouse cursor, which can then be used to examine items, drag them to another spot on the screen, or hold them in your hand. This is important because some challenges can be solved by holding an item in your hand, like with the light and shadow puzzle. The game is very short and has only a few puzzles. Except for one where you look for numbers in a book to open a sage, the rest of them are pretty easy. If you get stuck on something, there are hits for each puzzle that disclose clues one at a time until you reach the final solution. There are no achievements or extras. You can collect eight treasures, but they do not unlock anything. Because of low content and short playtime, the price is a bit too high. It’s a nice little game, but I’d suggest to wait for a discount.

This game sucks. The control system is one of the most annoying things I have ever met in 40 years of gaming. Even when knowing what to do, the access to the inventory, mixed with the camera control, is so badly built that it takes half an hour of failed attempts (with the following frustration) just to open a safe. As there are no reviews right now, I hope this will get published and prevents people to waste money on this pile of bullcrap.

i enjoyed it despite the mechanics of the game being a bit awkward and annoying. more like an 1.5 game. puzzles, exploring. not bad, maybe get it on sale like I did.

The game contains good challenging puzzles to solve, but the downside is the use of controls. Using the mouse and keyboard is difficult to navigate around in the game. I recommend that the keyboard option for the navigation be deleted and using only mouse instead along with using the right-click button or space button for inventory. This can cause motion sickness on users with these controls. Despite the difficulty of using controls, I managed to finish the game and collected all of the treasures. Overall, this game is excellent except with the controls. All I ask is that the controls needs to be changed and updated to make the game easier and fun to play!