Atomic Escape: Reverse Escape Room

How refreshing it is to see a game with this futuristic retro cartoon aesthetic. It is very interesting, the game and its puzzles work very well.

I just finished this retrofuturistic point-and-click game, and it was amazing! The art style is gorgeous, combining vintage vibes with cool futuristic touches. The story had me hooked, and the puzzles were fun. The soundtrack really sets the mood, We definitely need more games like this one. If you love point-and-click adventures, you have to try it!

Very short game, misspellings and bugs, counter-intuitive puzzles and controls. Would hesitate to recommend this game if it were free.

Gorgeous artwork and excellent puzzles! This game feels like a 60's spy cartoon combined with escape room-style challenges, though it takes place in a house rather than a single room. It also brings to mind another game called "Agent A," and I think it's just as good. I had a blast navigating through the game. Be prepared to scratch your head a few times while figuring out your next move and clicking obsessively to find interactive elements. Some puzzle solutions are quite unconventional, but most make perfect sense. Once you get into the flow of solving puzzles, it’s incredibly satisfying to make progress. However, being stuck can really slow things down. One feature I particularly appreciated was the game’s notepad, which keeps track of crucial clues and combinations. It's a fantastic reference if you prefer to avoid the hint button. The game also introduces puzzles that can’t be solved until later, making it genuinely exciting to finally progress in sections you encountered 45 minutes earlier.

I can easily recommend this game if you are after an escape room fix. It's not a very long game, only taking me a couple hours to complete, but its asking price is very low, even when not on sale. I think $5 for a couple hours with a game that feels as hand-crafted as this, is worth it. There's a couple unintuitive puzzles and visual glitches; but overall, a solid game. The art direction is a stand out to me. I think that the 'retro-futuristic' aesthetic is executed very well, with lots of great design on the props and environment, as well as very charming 2d illustrations both in-game and in the intro and ending cutscenes.

This game reeks of AI, in everything from art direction to story to puzzle design, although at least it's relatively less buggy than most AI software, so a human has touched it at some point. (There are some game-breaking bugs, though, if you're too inquisitive, but it's mostly solutions sometimes trigger before actually solving the puzzle.) There's also a host of misspellings and awkward phrasings, including one that changes everything. Bizarrely, two puzzles have no hints at all and are purely trial-and-error. There's an unfortunate amount of pixel-hunting, clicking everywhere in hopes of stumbling onto a clue or interactive item, and a few times you might need to quit and reload just to get a solution working. I didn't really enjoy it, and I normally love escape-room style games. On the other hand, I did get it on sale for a dollar, and it gave me a little diversion, so meh.

Pros - Interesting puzzle design, a couple of tricky/gotcha parts but mostly the game flows along nicely IMHO. - Fantastic 1960's aesthetic with atomic-punk vibes. Layout of the house is great and fun to explore. - Good controls, entirely playable with the mouse, navigation and interaction was all pleasant enough. - Basic but solid UI. - Solid auto-save -Built in help system that doesn't give too much away Cons - Some hot-spots/interaction points were a bit off or just too big or sometimes overlapped. Sometimes you could navigate to the next room unexpectedly and some times you could interact with other points of interest at the same time as the one you are focused on. - No v sync, runs at a high frame rate with frequent tearing - No voice acting - There is a computer thing for tracking clues and it mostly works well but it does group the clues rather oddly. Overall a nice chill game with just the right level of challenge in my opinion. Recommended.

It's a good little game. The design is pretty good, music fits the theme. The puzzles aren't very difficult but it lasted about an hour and a half of play time.