Mystery Boxes Reviews

This game starts out as a fun and charming puzzle game that has an experience similar to a light brain teaser like Sudoku. HOWEVER! as you continue to play and more puzzle mechanics are introduced it eventually evolves to become a form of cruel and unusual punishment. The rules start to blend together and you can spend multiple hours on a single instance of procedurally generated puzzle. In one instance of playing this game with my friends over a discord call together, we sat there for multiple hours writing down our guesses as to the possible rules the mystery box we were practically starting to become delirious with how difficult it was. We started acting akin to those movie scenes where detectives have a bunch of post it notes with strings connected to each other on a wall trying to discover the smallest hint as to how the mystery box is functioning. Overall it is a great experience and was one of the best game nights I had with friends, and the satisfaction of completing one of the hardest levels is simply beyond compare. If you have $8 and a lot of time to spare I believe this a great game that is well worth the price.