
The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Outside of a few minor environment glitches, I fell out of the world at a seem in the caverns, this was a quality game. Took me 4 hours, but I could definitely see someone completing it more swiftly. Quality puzzles, exploration is rewarded with puzzle hints, some of them necessary. Overall, I'll be buying the second one.
Good game, but a bit rough around the edges with several bugs and lots of typos. Some puzzles keep resetting themselves, and objects you've already collected reappear. A few puzzles were solved randomly. You need to save the game before you exit - which is not made clear, and to start with is not obvious. But if you start a puzzle and then save the game without completing it, the puzzle can become stuck in an unsolvable state.
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This reminded me a lot of old school point-and-click escape games. I don't think it quite reaches the difficulty of one like Submachine 10, but there are a lot of puzzles all going on at once, so it's definitely up there in complexity! I had a ton of fun. I think the only critiques I have are that the sound you make when you jump is very silly, and sometimes the physics make it difficult to move around in some areas. Other than that, phenomenal game!
Really good and challenging, I almost forgot I had a brain to think with...... Johnoson fixed me so Hard
Well designed puzzles, nice environment design, appropriate price. This isn't the most polished game - you'll likely hit a few bugs but nothing game breaking. If you're a fan of escape room games it's still worth your time.
Great game
This game is awesome. The puzzles are incredibly well made. It's very engaging, and the story, although not deep, gives your journey a bit of purpose; that combined with a glados-esque (albeit human) narrator that sarcastically comments on your progress and is also tied into the story, makes for a fun and interesting playthrough. The game also has many after-game puzzles (ARG) which are very challenging (and I have yet to solve many of them). Those are primarily based as an ARG type of game, although a couple of things are still left to be done within the game itself. In any case, if you like puzzle-games, you'll probably love this one (and if you've played games like the guest, this one surpasses most of them in many aspects). It is also quite polished (I've read some reviews that said otherwise, but bear in mind that many updates have happened since then). Some items can respawn, but that's about it. However, when I made my last playthrough (for the speedrun achievement), I noticed that, after I finished it, I hadn't saved for a while, and when I got back to tackle some of the aftergame puzzles, I noticed that I wouldn't be able to win it from that save if I wanted to, because a bug prevents me from opening a cabinet that has something I need. I don't really need to finish it yet again, since I already have every achievement, and the aftergame puzzles don't require reaching the end either, but if this bug had happened to me on my first playthrough, it probably would have bothered me. In any case, there's a way to alter the save game through windows registry, which seems easy enough, and would work to solve this need be (or you could play the game again, since once you know the solution to the puzzles, you can get through it really fast). I advice you to save often, but just in case: [spoiler] keep the pieces of the map in your inventory until you have all three, and after you grab the last statue, make sure to place it before quitting the game, and save before doing so, otherwise it can vanish from your inventory, and you wouldn't be able to reopen the place where it is hidden [/spoiler]. Safe for that, the game is really really cool, and I totally recommend it.
Neat little puzzle game, don't save during the final pizzle as it breaks the game , save before putting the maps up and you can do both ending
I just got this game it started like a breeze all of a sudden I have No way to use my mouse So I decided to use my SWEN directionals (Keyboard) STILL does not work Im sorry Im over 70 and Totally getting frustrated here PLEASE :( help me what can I do please help - help - help
Pretty good game, relatively manageable difficulty-wise and worth the price.
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