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Escape Simulator (Q4 2021) ⭐️⭐⭐⭐☆

Beaten after: 11 months

Escape_room, Co-op
13.5h | 19 of 25 (76%)

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The good 👍
- Interesting puzzles that require thinking outside of box
- Hoarding clues, so your partner can't progress
- Can design and play own rooms via the community editor
- Free cross-over rooms (e.g. Portal or Talos Principle) are big and detailed

The bad 👎
- Basic game rooms are a bit claustrophobic
- Some tokens are just annoying (not fun) to find
- Some numerical puzzles feel more like guessing game than "do it based on the clues"
- Game is buggy and level reset may be required to beat it

Conclusion:

A good escape room simulator. Can be played both in single and multiplayer. There is good variety to puzzles, no issues with cooperation. The only negative is that rooms are quite small, and game can bug out, so quest items can't be interacted with. Restarting the level helps, but it means lost time to re-do the same puzzles again.

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Details

💸 Microtransactions ☑ None ☐ Skins ☐ "Time-savers" ☐ Direct purchase ☐ Custom currency (gems etc.)	🏆 Achievements ☐ None ☐ Story progression ☑ Few collectibles / easy to get ☐ Grindy collectibles / hard to get ☐ Require multiple playthroughs	💾 Save system ☐ No saves ☐ No saves, progress carries over ☐ One checkpoint, too rare ☑ One checkpoint, frequent ☐ Manual saves
📊 Performance ☐ Can run on potato ☑ Medium requirements ☐ High requirements ☐ Too low for what is visible on screen ☐ Optimization disaster	🌌 Graphic ☐ May look good 10 years ago, but not now ☐ Blurry textures / geometry problems ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Beautiful	🔊 Sound ☑ Nothing to remember ☐ Good voice acting ☐ Good weapons & effects ☐ Good OST ☐ Music flows well with the action
🦚 Customization options ☐ Resolution, volume only ☑ Basic graphic settings ☐ Advanced graphic settings ☐ Adjustable HUD ☐ Accessibility options	🧭 Map ☑ No map ☐ Basic ☐ Detailed ☐ Minimap ☐ Fast travel	Details:

Late with both posts for June and July, but life happens 😅 Didn’t have much time to play, even less to come here and do a short summary.

I currently play Kingdom Come Deliverance and Epic and I do enjoy it. Minus the combat. Trying to shoot a bow in game, without reticle is mad. I did practice archery, it’s hard enough to shot a bare bow to a stationary target. Not to mention try to hit rabbit or enemy mid-movement. And sword fight is overcomplicated, plus it’s pretty much always that we are stacked against a few enemies. Not 1 on 1 duels.

But. This is a game from glorious 2018. Time before games were full of microtransactions and time-savers nonsense. I don’t need to pay for experience boost or easier combat. I can download “show reticle when using bow” and “easier parry” mods without paying a cent, and enjoy the world building and story. Not to rage-quit due to combat 😎 And no devs requiring me to be always-online to check game file integrity, and revoke my access to single player game, as I am a dirty cheater. Ha. Screw you, capitalistic gaming industry.

People recently managed to push Stop Killing Games initiative past the threshold to be considered by EU. It doesn’t mean there will be any change in law, and gaming corporations already prepare their legal departments to lobby against it. Maybe even produce ads that keeping offline access to single player games past the publisher expiry date, in preparation to release a new game in the series, will get people raped. Just like moto industry did to fight right to repair by independent providers? 😐

We will see. I would like to have European law that would require games to have info at the front cover in big font “this game will no longer work a year after release” [we need to make grounds for release of battlefield 8]. Or that if a decision was made to kill servers in a multiplayer game, no new sales of game or DLC would be allowed in prior x months. To not have people grab a copy of a game in shop to learn 2 weeks later the game will become e-waste month after purchase.