Between Time: Escape Room

05/10 Meh. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ Da Vinci created a new reality☐ You forget what reality is☐ Red Dead Redemption II☐ Byutchifu Good☐ Decent☐ Don’t look at it for too long☐ Bad☐ Atari☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- Can your PC run Paint?☐ Potato☐ Decent☐ Entry-level gaming PC☐ Fast☐ Rich bastard☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? One word. Pewpewpew! Three words. Pew pew!☐ Some sweet talk☐ Average☐ Good☐ Beautiful!☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien teamed up to write it☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer, it’s more fun☐ Watch paint dry instead☐ Not really☐ Mehh Good☐ Excellent!☐ “I know kung fu!” ---{ Grind }--- You’ll need a second life to grind☐ Grindaholic☐ Average level of grind☐ Only if you care about achievements☐ No need ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press “W”☐ Easy☐ Easy to learn, hard to master☐ Requires attention☐ Significant brain usage Hard☐ Dark Souls☐ What’s your IQ?☐ Hawking teamed up with Neil deGrasse Tyson to build a time machine, find Einstein and Tesla, and create this game. ---{ Game Length }--- ☐ Just enough time for a cup of coffee☐ Short Medium☐ Long☐ You start it, your grandson finishes it☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replayability }--- Once is enough☐ Only if you’re going for achievements☐ Worth it with DLCs☐ After a few months… Years… Mods…☐ You’d better have time to waste☐ Well… You didn’t need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- Never heard of them☐ Minor bugs☐ Can be annoying☐ You’re going to swear…☐ ARK: Survival Evolved☐ The game itself is one giant bug farm ---{ Multiplayer }--- No multiplayer☐ LAN☐ It says it has multiplayer, but your PC will explode if you try☐ There it is… A lonely, forgotten wasteland☐ Meh, it’s actually kind of fun☐ Call your friends!☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ I’m deaf now☐ Bad Acceptable☐ Good☐ Very good☐ Audiorgasmic ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids☐ Adults Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ No longer available on Steam☐ It’s free! The price is fair If it’s on sale☐ If you have some money to spare☐ I don’t recommend it☐ You might as well just burn your money ---{ 07 / 10 }--- ☐ 1☐ 2☐ 3☐ 4 5☐ 6☐ 7☐ 8☐ 9☐ 10 Between Time: Escape Room had everything it needed to be one of those games that would keep me racking my brain for hours. And at first, I really thought it ****’s the second escape room of this kind that I’ve tried to play. The first one was so full of bugs that I could barely enjoy the experience. At least there’s one important improvement here: the game works. You can explore the environments, interact with the mechanisms, and actually make progress without having to fight against the game itself. But after a while, that logic starts to fall apart.Some puzzles become difficult, not because they require reasoning, but because it’s not clear what the game wants you to do. And that completely ruins an escape room. There’s a huge difference between being stuck for twenty minutes and finally figuring out the logic, and having to look up a solution that doesn’t even seem to make ****’s a shame, because there’s potential here. The idea of traveling through different time periods allows for varied settings, the environments are enjoyable to explore, and there’s practically no grind. I genuinely wanted to keep discovering the next rooms. But in a game built almost entirely around puzzles, if solving those puzzles stops being enjoyable, there’s very little left.I don’t recommend it.