The Séance of Blake Manor

Closest to Blue Prince that ive found but still wildly different. I loved it. Saved 22/22 and solved 35/37! Blue Prince is considerably harder though. This game isn't easy but its not hard either if that makes sense.

Esse jogo é um dos melhores jogos de mistério em que você busca as pistas e tem registros para resolver os problemas que já joguei. Acho muito bem feita a esquematização de informações que se obtém sobre os durante o jogo, pois ela mostra os dados que você tem, como os obteve, e a forma como elas são usadas nas mecânicas de resolução é bem feita. Com certeza uma obra que representa muito bem o papel de um detetive de forma organizada, intuitiva e divertida.

Poorly designed game, no fast travel means you spend majority of this game walking around. The time mechanic want you to be deliberate with your investigations, but missing a single item might mean you cannot progress, so you end up needing to click on every single thing. Very disappointing.

好玩！一定程度上属于温情小故事，毕竟除了罪恶的血，每个人都有个好结局。 有的时候指示并不清晰，尤其是已经解决猜想但完成行动的阶段。硬推理的部分其实并不多，但胜在情节丰富，信息庞杂，阅读量大。比起在诡计上如何为难人，试图找寻一切线索去了解每一个人的故事，在体验上更具沉浸感。而且可能因为侦探是个正派人儿，所以颇有些堂堂正正去救人的正义感在身上。

Overall really enjoyed it, and liked the time mechanic as a way to make you have to think a bit more instead of just brute forcing through every conversation option as can often happen in these point and click mysteries. Though the time mechanic gave a sense of soft pressure throughout, I had about 2 hours to kill at the end and was able to get the best ending on my first try, so it's not actually that difficult. Main critiques: 1. It would have been interesting if there was a little more challenge involved in deducing the solutions to mysteries. As it is it's really only a matter of finding the right evidence and conversation options and then the answer is told to you very directly - and finding those things is also never that difficult because the mind map tells you where to look. I never had a moment's uncertainty filling out the solution screens beyond figuring out what syntax the game was going for. Definitely not like Golden Idol where you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. 2. By the end, wrapping up the last few mysteries is a lot of running back and forth across the mansion to grab the last clues, and "gah, ok, can't do this yet because there's time gating/a character is not where I need them to be." While the beginning feels a lot more like genuine exploration, by the end it kind of felt like just ticking off a checklist. [Spoiler]I also felt like it was a little too obvious who the culprit was a little too soon, for about the second 50% of the game I was like "well it's clearly one of these two people and that one may as well have been named Red Herring"[/Spoiler]

Deductive-style reasoning mystery game, this one about ghosts and demons and Irish mythology. It reminded me of Obra Dinn, if that makes sense. Very good, but not much replay value is as is common with these games. Worth it at a sub-$20 price point.

Top game! I loved the art style, and the voice acting was incredible. Absolutely packed with incredible Irish folklore, mythology and history. One aspect that was somewhat repetitive was that when you explore different rooms, you are basically looking at the same kind of rooms and furniture to find clues but I can let that go because it is after a hotel, and hotels more or less have the same furniture in their rooms. The music really added to the spookiness of the game. The deduction of whodunnit isn't super hard, it's more the aspect of managing timelines and knowing when, where and who to progress your investigation. I hope they make something similar soon!

Captivated from beginning to end. Had so much fun!

This is my new favorite game. It's similar to Return of the Obra Dinn in that you solve a larger mystery by locking in the mysteries of each character one by one. The art style is very nice to look at and the supernatural aspects add a lot of atmosphere without being outright scary. The way the game presents the history of Irish folklore and religion is very well done. The time mechanic in this game was a little stressful when first starting, because I wasn't sure how much I would be able to explore within the time limit, but once I got used to it I realized there was plenty of time for everything I wanted to do. A lot of story-rich or mystery games have a lot of buildup and then disappointing endings, but the ending of this game was exciting and wrapped up everything perfectly. I played with my girlfriend and she loved it too, and it takes a lot for her to like a game. The only downside to this game is that I can't play it again unless I manage to forget everything about it, which seems unlikely. 10/10, try it out if you like games like Obra Dinn, The Roottrees are Dead, Case of the Golden Idol, or Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which this is visually very similar to.

Buenísimo pero tenés que saber bien inglés porque es mucho texto. Algunos misterios menores son muuuy boludos y hay algunas piezas de evidencia que te cortan el progreso porque no viste que había un llave diminuta tirada en el medio del pasto (dos veces me pasó). Muy recomendado