Escape Game: Santorini

What a warm, inviting vacation from the winter blahs is Santorini. Beautifully rendered graphics, and a nice mix of typical Jammsworks puzzles with clever twists. I enjoyed the second half even more than the first, and actually belly-laughed a few times. I’ll admit I was a tad worried after “Hanoi” that I’d be more frustrated than delighted with these latter travel-type games. But…nope. This is a ten-star game for eye-appeal, varied challenges, and chuckles.

I enjoyed this. Except: that if you leave completely the app there is a long beginning-even being able to tap and skip- and if you just leave the game there are ads. And sometimes the ads get stuck. Otherwise, nicely done. Idea for a game: It would be cool if the developers made a game that was all outdoors. Waterfalls, grass, trees, flowers, various animals. It could have find hidden pictures in it as clues too. (Like a bug shaped like a leaf.) Maybe: a fly trap plant with a clue inside. Behind the waterfall a clue. A cozy cottage with clues. Etc. A raft that takes you home on a lazy river.

Jammsworks has topped themselves again: this aesthetic vacation in Santorini has two full levels plus a bonus level as detailed as the regular levels plus extended versions of the embedded mini-games. It is huge. It is satisfying. The puzzles skew cute rather than difficult, so lots of objects that you have to figure out how to use, but you don’t have to turn your brain inside-out remembering sequences upside-down and sideways. Extra kudos for the entertainers having a home life, as well as for the designs inside the pianos.