App Profile: The Story of Barker

VirginiaVetMom

Rating: 4/5

This is the kind of point n click, room escape type of game I love. It has a clean look and puzzles that make sense — — Right up until the puzzle which is possibly the final puzzle, but I’m not sure, because I can’t get past it (without springing for the premium version, which gives the ability to skip puzzles). In this puzzle you have to find a 16 number sequence that unlocks a hatch in the deck. It is trial and error. And every time you play, that sequence changes, so no walkthrough is going to help you. And to make matters worse, you can be, like, 13 numbers into guessing the sequence, only to find out the trail ends and you have to find another starting point to try. It’s an exercise in frustration and futility. Not fun at all. Fix that puzzle to something that make sense, and I’ll happily give back that 5th star.

pandalover999

Rating: 5/5

I really loved this game! It reminds me a lot of tiny room stories. Amazing graphics and storyline, and I throughly enjoyed all the puzzles! Some reviewers are complaining about the difficulty, but I believe there’s a strategy to be found in all of them, though they were definitely challenging. My only complaint is that i couldn’t (or perhaps couldn’t figure out) how to go back to the front of the ship after I entered the inside, which made it a bit more difficult to solve one of the puzzles because i couldn’t go back and look at the clues. I also wish you could zoom in at times because I sometimes had difficulty finding smaller objects hidden in the rooms. Overall though a fantastic game and I hope this developer makes more!

wifivnrhdyska

Rating: 1/5

It was fine. The puzzles were okay - a little frustrating at times, but doable. Some of the puzzle games were pretty tough and it was a bit frustrating that you needed to complete/win to proceed, but nothing that bad. Then, near the end of the game (and I know because I looked at a walk through to make sure I was doing it right) I reached one of the last puzzles. It was a puzzle to lead to the last door and the puzzle was a literal “guess the button sequence.” So, okay, I start that, but after getting four buttons in, the sequence ends. I tried literally every possible button after those first four and none of them worked. I even recorded the screen and reviewed to make sure there was no way and I was right - I have no way to proceed. I know this puzzle is random per user, I know I was close to the end, but it’s horribly aggravating to think that I was close to the end and yet I can’t beat it due to no fault of my own.