Secrets of Velendar Castle - Escape Room

Hard puzzles, but I have enjoyed completing them when you really sit down and give it a solid go.

A fairly short puzzle/escape room game. Some games like this will hold your hand, leave detailed textual clues around directing you what to do next. Those are few and far between here. Most of the puzzles are solved through careful observation of the environment and intuition. Sometimes to an extreme degree. There were a couple puzzles I couldn't solve even with in-game hint (There's only one per puzzle, and it's not detailed text, just visual hints), and had to look online, and after the fact I think the hint for one of those in the game was wrong or extremely misleading. And there are puzzles that need to be solved in sequence, and the game really only tells you this if one of them requires an item from another puzzle to solve it. If a puzzle can only be solved with information gained from the answer to another puzzle, the game doesn't tell you, leading you to spending a lot of time working on a puzzle you can't solve yet. That being said, each section of the game is self-contained, no backtracking to the other side of a massive map to find clues to a puzzle on the other side. No carrying around a bunch of items and puzzle pieces that will be used much later. No "puzzles" that try to hide their lack of depth by giving you extra things to do, like actually turning the knob of a door or turning a crank around and around to open a cabinet or pointless little tasks like that. It has a pretty simple story that frames the whole game, as well as a choice of two endings (one of which makes no sense to your character, as shallow as it is.)

Played the first game these guys made with my gf and we loved it! We are always looking for a good escape room / mystery game to play at nights and on the weekends. This has been on my wishlist for a while and I got it the second it came out! Really really fun and the puzzles are very engaging and well thought-out without being too hard (but tricky at times!!). 10/10 hope this developer makes more like this.

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Итак, это головоломка в самом прямом её понимании. Локации красивые, антураж внушительный, озвучка тоже не плохая. Что же сказать на счёт загадок, которых в игре достаточно, как бы объяснить. Представьте, что для решения одной головоломки, вам надо решить ещё две, и запомнить или сфотографировать подсказку на стене, а мне и представлять не надо. Все задачки взаимосвязаны, и для каждой нужен свой подход. Есть одно руководство от разработчика, потому что некоторые головоломки немного не логичные, но их всего 3-4, так что не страшно. Это не похоже на схожую по стилистике The Witness, но определённо стоит вечера поломать голову, к тому же если по скидочке.

Secrets of Blackrock Manor开发者BiriBiri时隔一年发行的续作，由于前作带给我非常不错的游戏体验，这次已经发售也是火速入手，一鼓作气全成就通关了~本作延续了前作的风格，依旧是熟悉的场景画风和脑洞谜题，解密中穿插着背景小故事，随着关卡一层层解开，尘封的真相也逐渐浮出水面。相比前作本作的场景更加精细，不同房间的配乐对氛围的渲染也很到位。但相比前作将不同谜题关卡分隔成多个小房间的设计，本作采取了将大量谜题集中在更加开阔的大场景中，虽然视觉上没有那么阴暗逼仄，但集中的大量谜题之间缺乏关联引导，经常容易面对一堆谜题无法判断解密顺序，会出现很多因为前置问题没有解决因此得不到对应道具或关键信息的情况。总之，这是我期待很久的一部解密作品，也是我能找到的该工作室在steam的第二部作品，期待开发者能够在后续推出更多优秀的解密推理游戏~

[b]Horribly designed[/b] It is hard to describe how horribly this game is designed. For example: - There is a bell puzzle with a 5-digit code, but it resets after FOUR digits being wrong. So fifth digit counts like a first one in a new set. I spent a lot of time thinking my right answer is wrong because the autor don't came to conclusion that 5-digit puzzles should, maybe, reset after the 5th digit, and not after the 4th. - You can zoom in by left-clik, but you can't zoom out by right-click, you need to press a button for this (?!) - Opening your inventory and closing it is a TWO DIFFERENT buttons, far from each other. It would still be OK if puzzles were cool. But. Most of the clues are so hard to get which is for which puzzle, and some puzzles are unclear what exactly you should do. Do you need to input all 3 sets of pictures or just one of them? or do you need some order of lighting the candles, or some must be lit and some don't? Hexagon puzzle on the first stage - a didn't get this even after seeng the clue. I have no idea, i just bruteforced. What this hexagons were representing? Why you should start in the left corner? What? Overall, the gameplay is horribly boring, music is almost not exist in this game. So i managed to suffer 3 stages until deleting it forever