Escape First 3 Reviews

If you're a fan of escape the room games all the different deliveries by Onskull Games are very recommended. The Escape First saga is one of their best. Technically speaking all of them have problems, repeated with each delivery, like objects clipping through other objects and surfaces, free locomotion which is incredibly slow and sometimes does not work, strange configurations for the controls (on Index at least), the scale is totally off sometimes, etc, nothing that you can't forgive or solve by resetting objects, though. Despite those problems, 3 different levels, each with its own different rooms is amazing value for the price. There's some illogical puzzles here and there but they are quite rare and most of the time when you can't solve something it is your own fault, the way it should be. PROS: - Great value at an unbeatable price - Very good and logical puzzles - Some background story in some of the levels, which is nice - Nice design (though technically flawed in certain aspects) CONS - Lots of clipping and lack of collision detection - Free locomotion is so slow that it is unusable (teleport works well) - No other languages but English - Interaction with objects is a bit clunky Overall an excellent and very recommended Escape the Room game, with some technical flaws but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Altamente recomendable para jugar con amigos, un par de bugs que nos hicieron reiniciar los escenarios pero aun así disfrutable 100% recomendado. Si entre 3 lo pasamos sin pistas no le veo problema para cualquiera que desee un desafío mental.

Played 10 hours but could have finished sooner if there had a been a save function. Not crazy about no saves but minor in providing review. Game was well thought out and was seamless in plot. Environments were well presented as were the sounds. Will I play the other games from developer, probably not only because of the no save feature.

Very fun, especially when played as a group / in competition with each other. There are a couple of bugs we've run in to that caused us to spend way too long solving a puzzle but for the price the game it's not too bad. Quality puzzles, best played with friends, would recommend.

We generally really enjoyed the game but we hat huge peoblems regarding bugs!! We were a party of 3 and did the chair riddle, where they had to face a certain direction. We got into an argument because I said my chair is facing front, friend one said its facing back, and friend two said its facing right. Turns out, all of us were correct because for some reason the game displayed the room differently for all of us which made the riddle unsolvable! and in the end, when the bookshelve opens friend one saw it open and went through, I didnt see it open, but just ghost ran thrugh the shelve, but friend two got stuck in the wall. Super fun concept, but very frustrating and at times unplayable. Very dissapointed because the premise and riddles themselves were fun...

A great upgrade from the previous games. Puzzles were much more intuitive and creative. The rooms felt like adventures and were telling a story. Might be a touch too easy compared to the past games but well worth the time and money.

I bought this game for myself and 2 other people who I was going to play it with. I was in VR, they were on desktops. we went into it saying, ok, the mixed reviews are because the game is not very re-playable, it has 3 maps. We looked at it as if we found someplace in the city we would go to and have an escape room experience, surly they would charge more but anyway to the review. We loved this game! the challenges were done very well, each map left us feeling like we accomplished a lot. As a party game this killed it, we had a great time and spent maybe an hour and a half per map, I wasnt pulling my weight. I spent most of my time drinking a glass of wine while my two leading ladies solved most of the challenges as they are awesome at doing such things. Here's a more technical break down. There are quite a few glitches, we had to work through some logistics with the VR player holding things they had touched and placed. Sometimes when another person was solving a puzzle the pieces would randomly popup in the VR players hands. We worked through this eventually but it did slow us down as the VR player had to solve those particular puzzles that this glitch happened on. There was about one of those puzzles per map that this would happen on. By the third map the vr player learned they could grab the glitching pieces and pull them out like thorns to drop for other players. There is also some clipping issues where items like keys would fall into objects, like a wall or piece of wood. we would reach into the object, to get the item back but there was no visual just random guessing at the last location. We worked through any glitches we found and none of the glitches were game ending, it was just a bit more difficult to work through. In the end I would recommend this to anyone looking to have a great time with some friends. Have a great time solving the puzzles. Im going to maybe look at buying games one and two for the three of us, Ill let you know how that goes.

Me and my friend can't play together, when he joins my game, he is stuck in the map, but he can play on his side. So we can't see what each others doing.

Another great co-op escape room game from OnSkull, a genre they are carrying on their shoulders and I wish we had more of. Graphics and world building are much improved compared to previous games. Playing and getting all of the achievements took my group around 4 hours. Devs are very caring, helping my group when we got stuck - fixing a bug within 20 minutes of us reporting. Excellent value for money and you can't go wrong if you like puzzles/escape rooms.

The puzzles themselves can be tricky, which is definitely a good thing. But the game itself is super wonky. There were many times where I would pick up an item(mouse-keyboard here, friends had VR) and then it would almost instantly teleport to one of my friends hands. My friends would sometimes have over 3 items in their hands and even though the puzzles were tricky by themselves it wasn't interactive enough for more than 2 people, even though the lobby can have up to 6. We beat the whole game in under 3 hours(as you can see from my playtime) which includes getting all but one of the achievements(which are generally progression badges anyways). So Pros/Cons +Decent challenge for 1-2 people +Ambient sounds are good -Any more than 2 isn't fun -Items teleport out of hands frequently -Item manipulation is poor -Not enough maps/content