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I put a high premium on that kind of full engagement and focus because my ADHD brain just can’t. Frantically scribbling notes and possible solutions, drawing maps and spinning them around because I’m awful at spatial puzzles feels like some kind of body alchemy. The solutions were as simple as finding a word in a specific place on a page, but when I did it, it felt so good - like I had transcended some kind of bridge between a real world and a virtual one. To beat the game and capture Carmen, you had to look up the answer to the final question in a real book. It reminded me of one of my all-time favorites, the MS-DOS game Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?. Having this kind of physical component to the game was deeply satisfying. There wasn’t a puzzle room where I didn’t use a pen and a pad of paper, muttering to myself out loud as I worked through the problems. It’s a full-body experience that engaged my body in ways video games typically don’t. But one of the things I enjoyed the most was that you have to get analog to solve the digital puzzles.
Escape Academy attempts to recreate the anxiety-laced fun of a physical escape room in a video game. There are the typical word and math puzzles, some logic puzzles, and my absolute least favorite - the spatial reasoning puzzle.
The puzzles of Escape Academy are extremely varied, satisfying every subgroup of the problem-solving section in my brain.
Along the way, you get to know the quirky students and professors who call Escape Academy home while solving puzzles to unravel the mysteries of the school. I wanted Escape Academy to ruin my life like that, the same way Inscryption did.Īnd while the escape room puzzle game / visual novel isn’t the equivalent of Tessa Thompson or Tom Hiddleston - or Tessa Thompson and Tom Hiddleston - showing up at my door on bended knee I can say it’s more like that greasy guy from The Bear cooking an intimate dinner for two in his furniture-less apartment - absolutely incredible but sparse and far too short.Įscape Academy tells the story of a young escape room aficionado and their journey through a clandestine school where the world’s best escape artists hone their skills with a variety of puzzles. (But I’d at least have the good sense to take the inevitable L privately.) If a good puzzle game came to my door and proposed marriage, I would blow up my life and career for it the same way that journalist did for that pharma bro. I’ve been in the mood for a good puzzle game.
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