Mystic Academy: Escape Room Reviews

Although I could not solve all the puzzles without looking at the walkthrough I would recommend to those who really like a challenge.

I'd rather give this a mixed rating, and I would recommend it to people who haven't played a lot of puzzle games. Though it's probably mc2's weakest entry. The puzzles are very simple, and other than the final two standouts, any significant complexity just comes from annoying context clues in the environment. Add a plot with zero intrigue, this isn't quite the Witness 2. Other mc2 titles leaned less on the escape room aspect and more on individual puzzles - IMO they are far better games.

Great way to spend a boring day. Puzzles are just the right amount of difficulty. Looks to be inspired by Harry Potter.

The puzzles have a lot of "Remember this for later" mechanics. If you don't have photographic memory, you'll need to go back and forth between puzzles as most are connected. This would be so much better as a multiplayer game where your team mates could call out numbers/letters to you from one puzzle to another. Hard to get into as a single player. The full screen mode made it hard to take screenshots for future references on other puzzles.

Only buy if its on a heavy discount. Super short, puzzles really easy. A good way to kill time but that's about it.

Another great escape game from mc2games. Funny, when I first tried this I deemed it too difficult and gave up. IDK why, because when I came back a few months later I completed it no problem without once using a guide. My only complaint is that a lot of the puzzles can be brute forced if one so chooses.

Fun room. Interesting logic/pattern recognition puzzles and everything you need to solve the puzzle won't be too far away.

Really easy quest, some good ideas. Cause video quality and simplicity the price is too high.

This is acceptable and has cute wizardy ambiance, but you should really go play Escape Simulator because the mechanics aren't awesome.

There are good concepts in the puzzles but the way you interact with the puzzles makes it very annoying to play. First of all, you really need to be able to move faster. Everything is so sluggish and though there is a run button you must hold it down. A quick solution to this would be to make it so auto-run can be enabled. Many puzzles require you activate buttons, levers, etc in a certain order but that order has to be compared to a different area. Because of this a lot of the puzzles require you to go back and forth between areas constantly. Couple this with the slow movement and it tends to make solving the puzzles to be a real slog. I had to resort to just taking pictures with my phone and that's not fun. The final puzzle is the worst offender as you have to rotate things with a lever but you have no idea what each pull of the lever is doing. This could easily have been made better by just allowing you to see what is happening to the statues as you pull the levers. It seems the real difficulty in the puzzles is just the fact that you have to memorize sequences or guess how things are moving. Annoyance is not a good way to make puzzles challenging.