The Inheritance of Crimson Manor

Honestly, this game is exactly what I had been looking for. I love watching horror games where you are going around a spooky location trying to put clues together or solve a mystery, but what keeps me from playing those horror games is the entity that you usually have to hide from that interrupts your progress or causes you to restart. Don't get me wrong, that element is great for the horror genre, but I haven't found many games outside of that genre that still have that same play vibe without it. THIS game is that. It's got the perfect vibe with no threat. It's actually pretty polished as well. I didn't personally run into any bugs. The aesthetic was nice, the feel of the controls was smooth and the puzzles, while at times perplexing, were not overly difficult. This game was balanced well when it came to progressing. It didn't hold your hand to the point of you just going through the motions while reading the instructions, but it also didn't leave you stuck at some point trying to figure out what to do next. The hints were also not vague, such a plus in my book. The only real downside I could find would be the grammar. I am not sure if it was translated or not, but reading some of the notes or clues, made it a bit awkward due to the wrong words being used or confused for other ones, this hardly detracted from the game at all. Other than that this is a solid game that I would recommend to people who enjoy other puzzles games like The Room series. Not sure it's worth almost $20, I got it on deep sale and I can 100% recommend it for the price I got it.

An escape room/puzzle style game, you play as the executor of the last will from the Hadley Strange. You enter the mansion and explore its secrets and puzzles to uncover the secret of the Hadley and his family. The mansion has a nice Victorian aesthetic; you slowly open it up through exploring and finding keys to open up doors and the like. There's a lot of details put into the mansion which gives it a feeling of being lived in. The story is told through various notes you find, it's okay but the ending is a bit underwhelming. There are some good puzzles but also many simple ones and some with confusing logic. One puzzle related to Steam valves I had to check an online walkthrough as it appeared to be bugged (after duplicating the inputs the puzzle was 'solved' but the 'solution' made zero sense). There's a lot of key-hunting and running between rooms and sometimes the true puzzle is figuring out where you're actually supposed to go. The game has a built in hint system which is useful when you get stuck but I wish they made the hint system more layered so you had the option to get minor hints before telling you what to do. Multiple times I accidentally overlooked an important item and I needed to check the hint to learn I missed something. Ultimately it was merely okay but can be picked up on sale if you're looking for this style of game. 6.5/10

Good Game

Played and finished it in one evening. Some people seem to think that this is supposed to be a horror / creepy game. It's not, nor does it advertise itself as such. It's basically a puzzle-exploration game set within a manor where you uncover a mystery. Is it groundbreaking? No. Did I enjoy it? Yes. It reminds me of House of Da Vinci minus the puzzle boxes. I didn't experience any bugs, but some puzzles can be brute forced which may or may not cause issues, I personally didn't run into any. I think the way the story is told is pretty decent. I felt like the puzzles were enjoyable but a bit too simple. I personally prefer more deduction. Overall, if you go in with measured expectations, you'll probably enjoy it.

Au début, je trouvais beaucoup d'objets qui au final n'étaient pas utiles. Je suis parvenu à distinguer les indices utiles. Ma progression s'est améliorées jusqu'à ce que je bloque définitivement à quelques pas de la fin. Il y a une énigmes que j'ai dû manquer. C'est un jeu très amusant et gratifiant.

Jogo muito bom. Bons puzzles, história legal.

Игра про побегать, а не про подумать

Really fun game and I loved the atmosphere but some of the puzzles need work (ex: masquerade mask puzzle gives incorrect position of a mask). Most of the puzzles were intuitive and not extremely challenging and it was nice going through the manor, which I was able to navigate without the map after a bit, and I appreciate extra objects being interactable even if they weren't part of the story. I do wish that the map icons for puzzles were a bit more clear, maybe with alt text when you hover over them, or that we could write notes about rooms. It was also nice that some clues autosaved to the journal so that we knew what was important but it felt incomplete and like more clues should've been saved.

Adorei o jogo. Entregou mais do que eu esperava, bem gostoso de jogar, nota 7 pro plot, achei que poderia ter mais lore mas gostei dos enigmas. Recomendo.

Such a cool small puzzle game. In The Inheritance of Crimson Manor, we explore a Victorian-style mansion and slowly but surely uncover its deepest (literally) and darkest secrets. At first, it seems we're just opening and exploring random rooms in the manor and the puzzles themselves feel random too and disconnected. However, at some point, considering all the puzzle-unrelated documents we find in more and more rooms, we start piecing together an overarching story. A dark story that goes through a deep path. The puzzles are fun and make us feel like we're treasure hunters discovering more and more throughout the manor. Only there is no treasure to find. Sole sadness. And a decision at the end. In a way, this reminded me of The Painscreek Killings, which I also loved at the time. I'm positively impressed with The Inheritance of Crimson Manor and recommend it to anyone who enjoys puzzle games in general.