In Escape Room: Uncharted Myth from HFG Entertainment, you play as Jack, a young country lad using his skills to solve puzzles and make your way through an episodic fantasy, Sci-Fi Hidden Object and Puzzle game that boasts 100 unique levels after playing even a few of these levels, you’ll know how they were able to fit so many into this game. The episodes are mostly cookie-cutter, so I’ll focus on the first episode so you can experience the rest yourself. In the first episode, Jack decides he wants to make cheese for his mom when an evil witch decides to walk by and poison their cheese cauldron resulting in Jack finding his unconscious mom (shown below)sprawled on the floor after sampling the cheese.
Hands-on
I played through several of the episodes, and in a way, it proves a very charming game. While it won’t win any awards for game of the year or best dialogue in a game (example below), it works you want something quick and simple to kill a few minutes.
The puzzles prove overly simple. requiring very little brainpower to solve. They are so simple that I had a little trouble in the beginning because I was overthinking and looking for more complex solutions for the first few puzzles. Meanwhile, the answer was to click each symbol until it was green. Everything in “Escape Room” is handed to you on a silver platter, but it can still feel satisfying in the end and make you feel good about yourself in the process.
The graphics are what you would expect for a game of this caliber, very simple, barely animated, and choppy, but it gets the point across and can be downright funny at times. The good news is that you can skip the cut scenes, so you don’t have to sit through them every time.
Final thoughts
HFG Entertainments has produced an adequate, time-killing puzzle game that will, if anything, make you feel smart and accomplished for a few minutes. I found myself picking it back up and playing it in my downtime for a couple of days before becoming bored with it, replayability is fairly low.
