There’s no “moon logic” in Escape Simulator. I genuinely don’t think there’s any puzzle even novices will need to take it that far on. If you’re further stuck, it’ll progressively keep going until it spells out the solution. If you’re further stuck, it’ll charge up (it doesn’t take that long) and you can press it again to give you a pointer of how to begin that part of the puzzle. At first, it simply points you in the direction you need to go. It’s handled better than any hint system I’ve ever seen. If you don’t, there’s a no-shame hint system: a button you press that prints out tips. For example, if there’s a map laid out like a telephone keypad, you’ll instinctively grasp the significance of it. If you’re a veteran of escape rooms, real or digital, you’ll recognize many of the tropes. The puzzles are stereotypical of the genre. Thank god you don’t game over when you run out of time.Īs of this writing, there’s twenty-one official rooms (plus a tutorial), with the promise of more to come. (clears throat)įifteen minutes? Yeah, right. Or, you can drop it on the floor, if you’re a total slob. When you collect garbage, you have to literally place it in a garbage can to dump it from the inventory. Escape Simulator is surprisingly flexible. ![]() If you think that’s too easy, you can disable it in the options. Helpfully, the stuff you actually need is marked as such when you examine them. In fact, tons of things that have nothing to do with the solution (known as red herrings to the Escape Room community) are in every room. You have to pick them up and manually dispose of them. Of course, when you smash pots, they break into several pieces that don’t do the video game thing and fade into the ether. ![]() At least without having to calculate how much you have to tip the attendees. The hypothetical advantage of digital rooms is, unlike real ones, you can make a mess of the room if you wish. You move with the arrow keys on a keyboard, then grab and examine things with a mouse. So, let’s get to the meat of the review: the interface. ![]() There’s a few different themes, including the Egyptian theme that all real escape rooms seem to be required by law to have at least one of. ![]() If that’s not the case, what the fuck are you reading this review for? Fucking weirdo. If you’re the type of person who doesn’t get bored with this formula, this is the game for you. Search around, find the first clue that lets you solve one puzzle, which provides you with the information you need to solve the other, and the process repeats until you open the ultimate door. It works the way it should work: enter a room and immediately be overwhelmed by puzzles that make no sense. Escape Simulator contains a collection of small, self-contained escape rooms with real-life type of puzzles, along with the occasional brain bender that can only be done digitally (especially the space station-themed rooms). On PC, the one that everyone has been asking about since I went on this escape room kick is Escape Simulator, claiming that it was the closest to the real thing. In our first ten minutes, we saw items clip into each other, inspected items knock other items over, etc. This is unstable and completely unoptimized for #NintendoSwitch. Escape First is the first in a series of three ports of PC games, and it shows.
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