Blue Prince

why ... everything ... has ... to ... be ... *so* ... SLOOooo..... . . ......ooooOOOWWWWW!?...

I liked it at first but then the RNG gets annoying

A gambling game falsely marketed as a puzzle game. Buy it at only above 75% sale if you are interested in gambling, it's not worth whole price. Everything in this game is based on random chance, puzzles don't make any sense, some of them are random words, even if you are an English speaker it won't make sense. The goal is to reach a stupid room 46 so you will inherit the whole manor, but it's a frustrating convoluted mess. I think the people who designed this game knew that their puzzles are idiotic, so they came up with the stupid idea of limited footsteps each day, keys and jewels to unlock the doors even then you could end up with a dead end, just so you could play it pointlessly all over again.

I really wanted to like this game, but it's way too tedious for me to spend anymore time with it after finding the room 46. By the end, it started to feel like the game was just wasting my time (kind of like The Witness, but it gets a pass for its fantastic puzzles). There's a ton of potential here, but the roguelite element (rng) and the fact that player's time is not respected make me not want to play it anymore :(

It is a fun mystery in the beginning. But Rule #1 for riddle design for me is to post no obstacles to anone who has solved the riddle. After knowing where the 46th room is you have to play for hours to get the right drafts to reach it again. Barely any skill is necessary, only luck. This is where I uninstalled the game.

So close. So frustratingly close. If Blue Prince had relied just a little less on luck, it could have been one of the greatest puzzle games ever made. The biggest problem with this game isn't that the puzzles are difficult. It's that even when you come up with a theory on your own, you often can't test it right away. Blue Prince has an enormous number of puzzles. And because there are so many of them, I felt that far too much depends on whether the right rooms or items happen to show up. You can know exactly what you want to try, only to spend attempt after attempt waiting for the rooms or items you need. And when you finally get the chance to test your theory after all that effort, only to find out that you were completely wrong, the sense of wasted time can be brutal. There were moments when, instead of thinking, "Okay, let's try another theory," I found myself thinking, "I don't want to waste any more of my life on this game." That's how frustrating the randomness can be. With just a little more fine-tuning to the luck-based elements, I genuinely think Blue Prince could have become the kind of puzzle game people remember for years to come. That’s what makes it so frustratingly close to greatness.

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