Laqueus Escape

I would have added this to my first review, but the app won’t bring me back to it. I wasn’t impressed with the first chapter, and my opinion of the graphics and animation hasn’t really changed throughout the next three chapters. Also my frustration with in-game text being too small and nearly impossible to read without zooming in on screenshots continues (though that didn’t help trying to read what’s at the bottom of the yellow stripes in Chapter 3). I’m annoyed having to refer to walkthroughs occasionally too, because the hints aren’t very helpful. But as I progressed through chapters, the game became more complex and more engrossing, and now I’m more familiar with the mechanics, so I stuck with it. However, something just happened while I was playing Level 4 that ended my time with this game, unfortunately. I had to refer to a walkthrough again to find out there’s a wheel missing from my screen. The only way to try to resolve this is to reset. Although I did reset just this level, and I was placed back inside the elevator, all of my previous progress was saved, including the omission of that wheel. Apparently the only other option it provides is to reset and go back to redo a previous level as well, which I won’t do! And tapping on App Support here goes nowhere.

The worst escape game i have ever played and I’ve played too many too count so…pretty bad. Graphics and audio are decent but thats the only thing going for it. The devs apparently love giving math problems that could be interpreted in numerous ways but don’t give any context for how to properly interpret the problem without hints. The hints they give are often condescending and mostly useless. They also love giving you hints for problems you’ve already solved. The camera angles are terrible and the game gets super nit picky about the angle you have to look in order to move to another area. Too many moments where you obviously made a change and hear a noise signifying something has moved but it doesn’t give you any idea of where that change occurred. Information overload can sometimes be good but this game loves to give info overload in the form of showing multiple separate puzzle’s clues all at once…all the time, making it difficult to understand what clues are for which puzzle. The game tries selling you with the graphics and animations but falls severely short on what makes an escape game an escape game. Extremely poor execution of game design and understanding of the genre. If i could give negative stars, I would. So I’ll just say it. -2/5 stars.

Update: Changing my rating to 4 stars. Figured out a workaround for the peg game by closing the app completely and restarting. This allowed one chance to place a peg in the location I wanted. Got thru the puzzle after a few tries using this method. Overall the game was fun. ——————————————————————————————- Chapter 6 has a toy peg game that’s very glitchy. Can’t proceed without solving it first. Thru trial & error I found the correct placement for the first peg and was working on the second to correctly bounce the button out of its resting place. On resetting the game to try again I could no longer place the first peg where I wanted it. This game seemed to change and get more difficult to impossible to complete as I got closer to solving it (very bad form). There’s no response with several peg locations and those that will allow placement of a peg don’t work to solve the puzzle.