Blue Prince is a walking simulator combined puzzle game. You start each day entering a house. Each room has 4 possible entries and every time you open a door, you draft 3 possible rooms and get to pick one. This way you build a labyrinth of rooms throughout the house and your main goal is to find the 46th room.
The story is that you’ve inherited this house, on the condition that you find the 46th room. During this expedition you will learn more and more about the history of the house and your family. In this regard the game is very much like What remains of Edith Finch, but here the floor plan changes and in that game it is static.
I really like the vibe of this game, it’s very chill. Progress is slow, and every detail is important. Even if you have drafted the same room 10 times before there are slight differences. Every new day brings something new, but there is never any stress that you need to make progress. Either you do it or you don’t. Maybe you will get better luck next day.
This is also what I dislike about the game. I am a very result focused individual. You can do everything right, and still get screwed because of bad luck.
Some of the puzzles are alright. What I like about them is that they are slightly different for each day in game. Some of the puzzles stay solved after you solved them once, mainly the more difficult ones and I dare say that I wouldn’t have solved any of those without looking up the solution on internet.
Playing this game it will sometimes feel like you’re stuck, even if you’re not. It is a combination of progress being so slow, but also that you need to wait for the correct combination of rooms to be drafted. Most often you don’t even know of the combination that you need, but you happen upon it by chance.
All in all I enjoyed the calmness, the graphics, the story and some of the puzzles. It was a chill game and just what I needed.
I rate this game as GOOD.
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