Blue Prince

A delicious puzzle-roguelike charms, but suffers from lack of save options.

There’s a lot of bottled magic in Blue Prince, and it reminds me of the best reasons why fantasy still captures hearts today.

Blue Prince takes the roguelike formula, throws in DIY architecture, and manages to combine them to form a pretty impressive tale of intrigue and a very fun puzzler. The simple mechanics make a complex whole with great puzzles and reason to play run after run!

Like its sprawling mansion, Blue Prince is loaded with secrets, beautifully organic puzzles and hidden emotional depth, making each run a mysterious treat.

Blue Prince’s mysterious manor is just begging to be explored, providing a puzzling experience unlike anything else in the gaming space.

The most intricate, most frustrating, most satisfying, and most mysterious puzzle game I've played recently.

Blue Prince is quite an interesting game that brings innovations to a stagnant genre, but at the same time suffers from a whole set of shortcomings.

Perhaps the best first person puzzle game we've gotten since Portal or Portal 2, if I'm being completely honest. Where this game excels over Portal is how expansive and on-going it is. There is...just so much. Every door you open leads to more doors (unless you run into a dead-end). But it is all magnificently presented in such a way that is relaxing, encouraging, and super exciting. This is a game that you go at your own pace. If you're looking for a simple dopamine fix that you can pick up and resolve in a few hours--this is not that. This is a game that wants you to take breaks, think things out, journal, take notes, sleep on it, etc. I feel it keeps my mind sharp, and puts in the real-life lesson of, "think things out before you act carelessly."

Blue Prince is a brilliant puzzle game marred by ridiculous amount of RNG late-game and an unfinished story. If it weren't for the randomization, I would totally recommend this game. A lot of Blue Prince is padded by replaying the game over and over and over again due to RNG. This game would be 10x shorter if it weren't for the randomization. And that's why it's such a frustrating game. Many of the late game puzzles are so bad and obscure, requiring testing game runs multiple times to see which is the intended solution. It's such a waste of time and stops enjoyable after doing the same thing for 5-10 hours just trying to find the solution to a puzzle due to randomization.

Its fun but I dont like the fact you have to find specific rooms and do random stuff under the rng mechanic so you can complete it.

The core concept, I rate 10/10. The mechanics are truly new and quite interesting for a time, and I think that is why the game gets so many favorable reviews. But the game itself is a massive time sink, and quite intentionally so. At first, the random draws and item drops are interesting. But the problem is, there's too much of everything, too few combinations that actually work together, and mechanics to gain control over the randomness do not keep up with the scope of the puzzles the game throws at you. Expect to play an hour or more in a run, and come out with almost nothing. Repeatedly. If banging your head against a wall run after run, playing for literally a dozen hours just to watch the same pieces almost come together time after time, only to fall apart at the last minute, sounds fun, then go for it! If you value your time, but easily fall into the obsession of needing to find the next piece, then avoid. This game will waste your time, and it will make you feel obligated to continue even when you come out of a run realizing that the experience wasn't even particularly fun. This is an incredible game with one fatal flaw. It does not respect the player's time and values quantity over quality. Just consider, the game doesn't even have an option to save mid-day, and a day could easily take a couple hours to complete if things are going well. Sure, I get the technical reasons why it's convenient to architect your game with limited save information, but that's hardly an excuse for bad design. What if you have to run to go deal something? This is a game that doesn't believe its players have a life outside of gaming, and I think that really tells you everything you need to know.

La idea de Blue Prince es sin duda muy buena, original e interesante. Sin embargo, desgraciadamente, la ejecución no está a la altura. Las primeras vueltas por la casa todo es nuevo y es genial, pero una vez que has dado unas cuantas vueltas acabas viendo que bajo la apariencia de interés e interactividad, la realidad es que la proporción de habitaciones con puzzles es relativamente baja y tienen siempre el mismo puzzle de modo que una vez resuelto hay que simplemente repetir. Y todo el avance real de la partida acaba no siendo una cuestión de resolver puzzles sino de un frustrante RNG que decide si te salen las habitaciones adecuadas para lo que quieres hacer, si tienes los recursos (items, llaves, etc.) para poder abrirlas y sacarles partido, etc. Y pese a que hay alguna pista de historia, la realidad es que lo que más hay son notas esparcidas de lore de tiempos pasados, no una historia real.Gráficamente el juego es interesante con ese look de dibujos animados bien llevado. El sonido cumple, pero tampoco es la gran cosa y tiene poca variedad real. Al menos, eso si, no me topé con ningún bug mientras lo **** resultado es un juego que me encantaría poder recomendar, pero no puedo. Un 4.