Escape First Alchemist: Prologue

I would so far recommend this game as it's interesting and throughout the demo was fun and engaging. Only things I would say to change or that bugged me was, when picking up the book, it didn't move, nor did it show up in my hands, though it's hitbox did, so there was an invisible book on the ground, though that wasn't important and didn't matter, at least not in the demo. Other than that, I would just try to make it easier to read the book, while sitting at the alchemy lab, though that may be on my resolutions end. Solid and worth checking out and following in my opinion I suppose.

Your prologue is broken, and I am unable to progress past even the first puzzle: -Your book that I can pick up, when picked up, is invisible. I cannot get it to be visible whatever I do -The "Reset Items" button in the menu seemingly doesn't work at all, it does nothing when pressed -The dominos or dots puzzle for opening the locked box seemingly has no answer! I have been running around this one room for almost 30 minutes, searching for ANY pattern or marking or ANYTHING resembling a hit for this puzzle, closed and reopened the game several times, thrown things at the stupid book who doesn't say anything past the point of me solving the clocks, and there's no hope of me brute forcing this like 6 digit combination within the year, and I'm just incredibly frustrated! I assume that the clue for this puzzle is just in the book, a clue I can't access because it's straight up invisible. I hope this can get fixed soon. It was fun for the first small moment of playtime, until I hit this total brick wall. Doesn't bode well for the game proper :(

Fun puzzles. Love the sense of humor and the alchemy corner. Absolutely going back for the full game.

Pretty cool for a demo, nice and short. Seems promising, I kind of want to see how the real lab looks like

"Escape First Alchemist: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Escape First Alchemist". Escape First Alchemist is a poorly made first person escape room game, which, despite the okay-looking graphics (which may be flipped, who knows) was very badly designed, as you just get told what you have to do and follow it along, so don't expect a lot of puzzle solving. Certainly, games that are too obtuse are a problem, but the other extreme is a problem too. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Escape First Alchemist, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Escape First Alchemist: Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $10 USD on buying Escape First Alchemist, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 9 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

[h1]Before I played Escape First Alchemist: Prologue, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]