Escape Room: Mystery Word 12+

This is a simple puzzle word game that all ages can play. This review is in response to Klutzy Librarian, who complained about the in-game advertisements being “inappropriate”, now correct me if I’m wrong, but i was under the impression that advertisements are catered to the individual. If you shop for a lot of books online or spend a lot of time on iBook or whatever it is, then you’ll get a lot of book ads, same with the type of games you play, strategy games come with strategy ads, roleplaying games come with rpg ads. If you do receive those “objectful ads”, clean your phone. This game is simple and a good way to kill some time.

The first levels were fun and great for just starting, but as you got farther into the game, they started to get frustrating. For example there was a level with a pic of a G with lights beaming out of it. I saw it and thought, “well, that looks like a sun with a G inside it! So maybe gsun?” We’ll that didn’t work or make sense, so of course it was wrong. The answer ended up being gray, as G ray as in rays of light. This is not the only puzzle that did that. I called it one thing and the game called it another. One more example of this is a riddle where there was a desk with broken legs and a globe on it. The question was, “what will happen in the next second?”. I thought, well if the globe falls it will brake, or crash, or fall. So I tried all of those and none worked. The answer was quake. As it will quake when it hits the ground. That caused me a lot of trouble as quake did not make sense to me. So I watched a ton of adds to find the answer as I did for many of the puzzles. Last and final problem, some of them aren’t even riddles. They are puns. Like the puzzle, what animal has the largest breasts? I used a hint for this and it said that the largest bra size is Z. So I though Z bra - Zebra. And that is not a riddle, that is a pun. If hints are helpful and answers are not super easy, but not not making sense I will consider re downloading.

*contains spoilers/answers for certain levels*
The game starts out really fun. The puzzles are tricky and entertaining. But after a certain point, the levels become boring, tedious, and frankly, annoying. The annoying part for me is the way hints are handled.
Each level, you get a little bit of information to point you in the right direction of the answer. For example, one level had four framed photographs of heads on the wall; the answer was “forehead.” Cool.
But there was one level where the information they gave you was five cards with the letter M printed on each card. I ended up buying a hint and that costs gold which you can buy with real money or get by watching an ad. The hint that they gave me (that costed gold) was “All of the cards say M.”
No, really?
The answer to that level ended up being Mall and I get that the clue was saying “them all->’m all->mall” but a lot of the time, the hints are not helpful.
Plus, some of the levels are ridiculously easy which I understand they probably use to balance out the challenge but that’s why people download the app: it’s a puzzle game therefore it is going to be challenging. Heck, the App Store display page says only 5% can beat this game. People expect a challenge.
In summary, the game started out fun but I’m getting annoyed more than enjoying myself when I play.