Genius Escapes: Nuclear Nightmare

When booking this game you're asked what difficulty level you want to play at: Standard, Advanced or Genius. Usually this manifests itself in some arbitrary clue limit but not so here. Instead it dictates which 'manual' you want to take into the game with you.  Genius mode is only recommended if you've done "50+ escape rooms". Having passed this milestone some 700 games ago we decided to give it a go. 

Normally I strongly dislike any sort of manual/journal/instruction book in a game. Being told where the puzzles are loses a lot of the discovery aspect. But pleasingly the Genius manual only has two pages, and really you should only look at one of them; which explains which answer goes into which lock based on a series of icons. Ignoring the rest of the hand-holding (which we were told is more and more explicit depending on which manual you take), what you get is a more challenging than average room, which isn't afraid to chain steps and tasks together before giving up a final answer. This, combined with some nice looking and well implemented tech, made for a very enjoyable experience, particularly suited to the more experienced player.