SOTANO - Mystery Escape Room Adventure

A short review to give 👍 to M9 Games. SOTANO was my first from M9 Games and it was an enjoyable over all but I did wish it were longer. The visuals were nice and the puzzles were enjoyable. I did not experience any problems other reviews mentioned.Everything I interacted with worked as intended and progressed me onward. The only downside for me is not having achievements and trading cards. I think they make for fun profile showcase flair. Granted it is still in 'Profile Features Limited' status so maybe when the metric is reached M9 Games will add some 🤞.

There are things to like in this game, but it has a few major drawbacks that keep me from recommending it. Most people will beat this in around an hour and a half. Far less time if you are versed in these types of games. And Most of that time is going to be spent on 2 or 3 really badly designed puzzles. There aren't many puzzles or rooms in this game, but most of them are fun. I didn't have any of the bug issues that other people did, but I was able to bypass half the puzzles in a room with some simple guess work. The biggest issue with the game is that some of the puzzles are really bad. One of them ignores all the rules already established in the game. Had to use a guide because I thought the game was broken. Technically, it was. Two of the puzzles are riddles, and nothing is provided in the game to cue you to what the answers would be. This is faulty game design. Most of the puzzles thankfully can be solved with clues in the game world. The problem is that with such a small amount of puzzles, many of them have repetition. Its not a bad game at all, but it needs some polish, and some length. The Good: Ambiance is nice 3D exploration is easy and smooth Some of the Puzzles are fun The Bad: Too Short for the price Several Puzzles/Riddles lack in game context/clues. Many puzzles are too easy, or boring Game structure isn't cohesive, all puzzles feels jumbled together.

I finished this game in about an hour. Puzzles were good with only one being a bit obscure. None of the puzzles are twitchy or rely on luck, which I appreciate. The game is short but solid.

A cute game with some basic riddles & puzzles. It could use some more polishing but considering it's a one man project and priced affordably I still recommend it!

Muy bueno. Si estás empezando con los puzzles, ¡este es el juego para vos! A diferencia de otras entregas de la franquicia, esta me resultó bastante sencilla, pero igualmente, muy bien planteada. Gráficamente es un juego hermoso y la historia genera relación entre las salas, pero no interrumpe con los puzzles, lo cual me parece un gran acierto. Añadiré un detalle que encuentro negativo, pero contiene spoilers: [spoiler] Lamenté un poco el hecho de que algunos puzzles se resolvieran buscando una relación entre palabras, que naturalmente estaban en inglés. Aunque hablo el idioma, fue algo complejo y algunas palabras requerí traducirlas para poder avanzar. [/spoiler]

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] An escape room game with some decent puzzles. If this game looks familiar, that's because it's made using an "escape room toolkit" purchasable on the Unity store, and used by a lot of other Steam games, the best of which are created by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=mc2games]mc2games[/url]. This makes a lot of those games look and feel very similar. My biggest complaint with this game is that there's no hint system, and no walkthrough, meaning if you get stuck... too bad, you're out of luck. I'm particularly bad with word riddles, and this game had two word riddles to solve. Fortunately I have a friend who is great at them; I asked him and he was able to solve them immediately. I was able to beat this game in a little under an hour, but without his help it probably would've taken twice that. There was also one riddle which requires random trivia knowledge (knowledge of country flags, which I had to google). Finally there was one puzzle that is massively under-specified (the cabinet in the bathroom), but fortunately I was able to guess what the developer wanted pretty quickly. Aside from those, most of the puzzles were decent-to-good. Two of the puzzles are [i]exactly[/i] the same (models, textures, UI, everything) as the puzzles in another game by a different developer, "In The Space". This game came out first, but I don't think the puzzles were stolen from this game. I'm guessing that they come with the "toolkit" as examples, and both developers lazily included them as-is in their games. Overall, I'd give this game a neutral if I could. Since that's not an option, I went with "thumbs up" since I enjoyed my time and was able to beat it in the end. I'd recommend getting this on sale if you're a huge fan of escape room games.

I didn't encounter any of the bugs other reviews have mentioned. I guess they've already been fixed. SOTANO has some good and diverse puzzles of varying difficulties. They won't amaze you with their innovation or beauty, but you'll definitely need to engage your brain to get through them all. This isn't a game to get you hooked on puzzle games, but it will help fuel your addiction. Decent puzzles at an appropriate price. Overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it to other puzzle addicts.

- very short - puzzles not unique - keys (to open the next door) suddenly appear next to solved puzzle - hints to puzzles spat out by wall printers, which makes no sense at all - some graphical glitches (textures or objects not aligned properly)

a nice short escape room puzzle game. it is very straight forward and simple. it is kinda rough around the edges with some graphical errors but it doesn't effect the game play at all. overall i recommend it on sale as you can beat it in under one hour.

A little too short, can force through some puzzles accidentally.