Lucardo Manchester: Space Evader

This is a game split into two halves. However it's simply a case of get to 30 minutes and walk into the second half. That takes a way a huge amount of the satisfaction of unlocking areas.

Lots and lots (40) of small puzzles. None of them are particularly exciting. 

Find the code or little puzzle, struggle because numbers are worn and it's dark, get another item. 

Usually we play as a 2, but we played this as a 4 and think we might have struggled as a 2 in the collector part of the game as it's very nonlinear. One puzzle is annoying due to the tech, but apart from that the room looks great and the puzzles were interesting. 

Pretty dated room. Lots to do but no ‘wow’ moments whatsoever. Waited quite sometime when requesting a clue. 

Fun collection game set across two areas in a small spaceship (felt more like an escape pod than a starcruiser). 

Although only a physically small space, this room would actually benefit a larger team in some ways, since every puzzle is independent and can be solved in parallel - there's no linear progression or meta puzzle - it's a successive stream of "find a puzzle, solve the puzzle, get the fuel rod, move onto the next", with no dependency or connections between them. Our team of two collected 29 fuel rods (out of, I think, 42 available?) in the hour allotted - and that was pretty much working non-stop. 

Puzzles encompassed the usual variety of observation/dexterity/deduction, etc. and were all fun to solve. There were no individual "Wow!" moments that really got the heart racing, but it was more a constant trickle of dopamine as each new puzzle fell every few minutes. A team of 4 or 5 would probably get all the fuel rods pretty easily, since they'd simple have double the work rate, and there's no opportunity for bottlenecks.

No tech issues experienced, and we didn't receive any hints, so can't really comment on that, but our GM was friendly enough in the introduction, so no complaints!

A collection room in two halves,  theres alot to do in each section so enthusiasts can divide and conquer for the whole game. A great hour of puzzling.  Love the clue system too... so cute!