I love a good puzzle, huh Access Denied: Escapethe latest game from Stately Snail Studios, is a pure delight for puzzle lovers. As the name suggests, the game is basically an escape room adventure — but, like its predecessor Access Deniedyou spend most of your time solving individual puzzle boxes.
The game contains a total of 30 puzzle boxes that vary in difficulty and complexity. These puzzles are complemented by adventure parts where you explore the environment in search of clues and hidden objects. Completing the game brings a real challenge: a real escape. These segments were the highlight of the game for me, as the puzzles are given context within the (rather weak) story. If more focus had been devoted to these parts instead of the mystery boxes themselves, the narrative might have been stronger.
In the end, it’s not crucial, because Access Denied: Escape it’s not a game you play for the story. If you’re looking for something other than puzzles, you’re in the wrong place.
Most of the time I enjoyed solving every puzzle that came my way Access Denied: Escape defaulted. The initial puzzles are simple: there’s an interactive cube in front of you, and it’s up to you to rotate it, examine each side, and figure out how to solve it. The box may contain switches, buttons, and sliders, and you have to figure out exactly what is being asked of you.
In the beginning, the entire context of the puzzle is placed on the cube itself. The box can have multiple linked puzzles on each side or just one larger puzzle. Sometimes it’s not even a box: occasionally you face a console, but the concept remains the same.
As you progress, u Access Denied: Escape new mechanisms are introduced, adding a layer of complexity to the puzzles. For example, you may need to start removing screws or adding batteries. Finally, you’ll be directed to find an information floppy disk or holocube, which offer additional data to solve more complex puzzles — like keys to decipher certain numbers or patterns, which will be useful in solving multiple boxes.
The problem lies in what Access Denied: Escape does not explain very well how to use the information from the floppy disk. You have to press the button on the controller’s shoulder to view it while you’re working on a puzzle, but you have to realize that you’re doing it yourself. There are no clear hints to indicate that it contains key information necessary to solve the puzzles.
This isn’t the only thing the game doesn’t explain well. Some puzzles are too cryptic, and you’ll have a hard time solving them without using the game’s hint system or walkthrough. Even those hints aren’t always useful enough: they’re either poorly explained or directly reveal the answer without any context as to why it’s the answer.
Despite those flaws, I still enjoyed solving the puzzles in the Access Denied: Escape. The game is fairly short, probably taking you three hours or less to complete (depending on how stuck you get on some of the puzzles, of course), which makes it ideal for getting through in one go. There are better games of this type, that’s for sure, but with a price tag of just £3.99, it’s impossible not to recommend it to puzzle fans looking to test their brains.
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