Playmonster: Break In Alcatraz

By | July 31, 2020

by Playmonster

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Review by Jakob Frederiksen experienced

Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Played: 18 Oct 2021 Team size: 1 Outcome: Failed 🙁
illogical

Let me start with the good stuff, this is a layered puzzle where you get to peel of a layer and reveal something new, I do like the design of this. I didn't like the way the cards are functioning in this game, long boring text and the primary mechanic of just looking for a symbol that isn't even hidden. The bad stuff the way you have to complete a puzzle is not just illogical most of the time I felt like it wasn't really a puzzle, leaving me with a feeling of is that it, finding the number to put the card into, the right symbol for the answer card and the color for the line on the card. Right from the first puzzle it felt like this mechanic was forced on and the need for the last part of the solution where just something you had to go with oh this makes the most sense but it didn't really fit. Got really bored with the game just over halfway through the deck and decided that this wasn't for me.

Cannot recommend, hopefully some of their later games will be better but this just fell flat.

Jakob Frederiksen has played 67 games - see all ratings and reviews

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