Blue Prince

Super fun and engaging, especially if you are the kind of gamer that likes to search for lore and understand the history in games. You play as a young person who has the opportunity to inherit a large manor, but you must find a hidden room in order to receive your inheritance. The game is played in a series of days where you learn more about the house and its quirks as you explore. Very highly recommended for puzzlers.

I'm in my blue prince era, he's in his blue prince era. I like puzzles, he likes puzzles. His favourite room is the library, my favourite room is the library. He's not good with names, I'm not good with names. He's a cute blonde twink, I'M a cute blonde twink. Simon P. Jones and I are literally the same person. I rate this game 12/12 instruction sheets to puzzles that I read after having already solved the puzzle on my own.

I knew little about Blue Prince other than the excitement of others who have played it that liked games I already have played. It's a puzzle game, yes. It's also a mystery. This is one of those games you should try not to spoil for yourself because the thrill of solving the clues yourself is worth it.

I was about to start writing a thoughtful and overall positive critique of this game, with a hint of relieved exasperation that I can finally do that after close to triple digits hours spent on this game. Then, I saw [b]Merry Pringle's review[/b]. I have nothing to add. It is spot-on, even if I have not played Outer Wilds (I was aprehensive to start it after finishing this one but it sounds like it might be a bit less daunting). Look up their review and you will get the jest of what you're going for. I am not a native English speaker, but I pride myself having great vocabulary. I absolutly agree; I would not recommend it to anyone who doesn't intuitively solve English crosswords puzzle and who can finish escape rooms singlehandedly without hint, and even then... by the end, once you start working on [spoiler] Lady Auravei's Puzzles [/spoiler] it starts to get in the realm of cryptology. With that said, that is one of the [i]Forte[/i] of this game; there is a point where everyone can stop and feel like they've reached their "Good ending", see the credits roll and move on happily. Then, if you're the kind of person who like excel sheets and finding paterns inside of paterns, you can keep pushing it for another hundred of hours or so, until you reach one that satisfies you. All in all, take screenshots, write notes, draw a plan... and be prepared to only figure out what some clues are meant for 20hrs later... if that doesn't sound like fun to you; Don't play it. If however, every couple of hours you want to feel like this: https://media.tenor.com/ojJrxBZEaB4AAAAi/sudden-realization-stuart-bloom.gif Go for it.

Awesome puzzles, insane replayability.

i feel like i'm just running into a wall repeatedly until it magically becomes a door and that aptly sums up the blue prince experience it's fun, i'll still keep playing, but at a certain point the "hope you luck your way into progress" gameplay loop gets pretty boring lol

A phenomenal puzzle game if you're willing to play through it. The only annoying part is that certain rougelike elements can get in the way of progress sometimes for a solid few days, but ultimately every day has something you can work on while still offering a great puzzle after you beat the first part of the game.

A tale of woe, not too dissimilar for many kinds that have occurred across the years. On day 32, after struggling with bad rng, fate finally smiled at me. I was able to find the last piece I needed to reach my current game obejctive...only to be told my princess was in another castle. But it was fine. I knew what to do. Preliminary exploration had granted me an advantage. I was wrong. I was lost. I required further steps to reach my goal. And so I ran around a little more, did what I had to do. Then I went back where I had been, and fooled around a little until I reached the end. I thought it was the end. It was not. There was more. But it was fine, I told myself. I could move forward still. I was almost done, surely. It was fine. Everything was fine. It was not fine. I had to backtrack again. And there, right as I was so close and had come so so far, it was then that the curse of the rng struck me. The run was gone. The day was wasted. I did not play the game for a long time. 1000/10 experience, will get crushed by the evil gods of fate again.