MOAR!

Jan 22, 2008 21:24

So you like Escape-the-room games, huh? Like that Christmas one in my last post? Well, you're in luck, because there have been some good ones recently. But first:

Pursuit Across Europe Think Cruisin' USA, but slightly more artistic and free to play online.

Vector Runner - Short, sweet, and deliciously retro. Avoid the obstacles, collect the bonuses. My high score is in the upper 40000's.

Areas - Shoot the growing white circles. When you destroy one, an area appears where it once stood, which affects anything you shoot into it in different and awesome ways. Overlapping areas = overlapping effects = possibility for some wicked combos. It's more luck-based than the creators would like you to believe, but it's so much fun just to discover all of the nifty tricks they can squeeze into the areas, that you'll find yourself playing level after level (there are 75 total)

Now then. Escaping rooms. In order of difficulty:

Escape Game - from the designer who brought you Dice Wars and others. Escape Game is pretty straightforward, although there is one pretty tricky part. If you liked the Christmas game, you'll find this one to be similar in style.

Synapsis - Beautiful and bizarre. The spooky and psychological graphics are superb, and don't forget to turn that sound on! The puzzles are fairly logical here, but you'll want to be on the lookout for clues. Also, some objects take a little bit of pixel-hunting to find their clickable parts.

Job Pico - from Gotmail, whose escape-the-room games are something like legendary. Again, wonderful graphics here, and quite innovative puzzles. The storyline is that you are trying out for a job designing escape-the-room puzzles, and the job interview consists of you having to figure your way out of a locked room.

All of the previous three games have walkthroughs on their Jayisgames review pages, in case you get stuck. You'll probably need it for Job Pico, and you should feel in no way inadequate if you need it for either of the others either.
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