Neue Rezensionen von Squared

Fun little game but probably not at full price.

First thing first, the game is named 100 doors and there's in fact 140 rooms. Second, since it's a mobile game brought onto steam without any modification or thoughts behind it, the options are... barely useful. If you have a ultrawide monitor (like myself) lots of puzzles will be impossible because of the format... you'll be missing vital information. You can't change the resolution in-game. Out of 140 puzzles, I would say that 130 are decent/easy/doable and about 10 are utter garbage (either because of the resolution (like said before) or because they are stupidly hard.
Until you add proper option, It's a MEH out of 10 for me.

I'll recommend but barely and only when on sale.
The game overall is good, there's no rubberband bs, the story is great but WAY TOO SHORT and easy. The soundtrack is awful. Graphics are nice. There's a sh*tton of collectibles and events to do but no real point except some cosmetics and a couple new cars but the game will be over long before you get 20% of them.
Also, expect to grind for cash because some cars and mods cost an arm.

Glorified mobile game. Can't recommend. Even though the game in itself is kinda good and fun the "regeneration" mechanic is dumb af. You can't play the game as much as you want. You have to wait for your vehicles to be repaired (1 sec per hp) which is a stupid free/mobile/old flash game mechanic. This idea shouldn't be in the game.

⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Marvellous
☐ Excellent
☑ Correct
☐ Meh
☐ Starring at walls is better

☠ Difficulty ☠
☑ Frustrating
☐ Hard but not too difficult.
☐ Requires a lot of thinking
☐ I play with my eyes closed

☼ Graphics ☼
☑ Beautiful
☐ It's got its own style
☐ Decent
☐ Paint.exe

♬ Music ♬
☐ Fantastic
☑ It's alright
☐ Bleed my ears out

☯ Story ☯
☐ Mind-Blowning
☐ Wow
☑ Not bad (From what I've seen)
☐ Worst
☐ There is none

♻ Length/Replayability ♻
☐ Get ready to invest some time
☐ Just enough
☐ Short
☐ Too short
☑ Haven't finished yet

4/10 ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆

This game is full of BS.
First, the levelling system is trash. Kill a basic lvl 2 enemy? 5xp. Kill a lvl 20 werewolf? 5xp. Kill an Ekon lvl 30 (16 lvl over you)? You got it, 5xp. You would like to use you hard earn xp? The cheapest thing is like 300xp. So yeah. F*ck the levelling system.
Controls (especially during fights) are garbage. You'll die because of it.
Speaking of dying, you entered a boss fight full hp and full blood and you died? Don't worry. They give you your hp back but you'll have to return farm blood before you return to the fight... WHY?
I've also skipped a metric ton of (probably important) dialogue because the click to advance should bring you to the next "screen" not the next sentence. I don't want to listen to hours of slow dialogues. I read faster. Shut up and let me read.
I'll most likely finish the game but it's not as fun as I would have like.

This game is a farming sh!tshow. So unless you are ready to put in real cash be aware that you'll have to farm A LOT before you can really progress. I played the game on the flash version (RIP) before switching to steam so I know. I wish they changed that but no. At least it's free... free to play but pay to advance.
Edit: 23h later; the game is still fun but grindy af. Tournaments could be fun if the player base wasn't 10... the most active players I've seen was 19 I think. So queues are long and expect to face the face players again and again.
Good thing it's free otherwise it would be a big NO NO.

Edit 2: (after nearly 70h in). This game is a mess. It's a shame because it's a fun game but it's an unfun farming grind. I'm not even near over with the silver packs cards so I'm guessing I would need another 100h to unlock the rest... I looked at the steamchart and, no wonder I never saw more than 19 people online, there's an average on 19 people playing the game in the last 30 days (including me). So instead of making the game fun and less grindy, you still have the stupid money options to lessen it. Alienating the 20 persons playing the game is better than trying to bring in more new player.

tldr: Don't bother unless you like farming currency for hundreds of hours.

Really, really good game. Great concept, nice idea and flawless execution. My only complaint would be the length (way too short) and the difficulty (way too easy).

The game isn't bad but isn't good either. The puzzles were great, the atmosphere and the music was good. Everything else... not so much. The characters are bland and badly animated (Emma seems ripped from the 90'). The game is neither an open-world nor a linear path and fails at both; you can wander around enough to simulate a false sense of open-world but you'll rapidly be blocked everywhere to remind you that you aren't. Also, what's with the ability to move every object in the game? Why? What's the appeal? This idea is only good on paper and serves no real purpose in-game.
The "end" is kinda guessable but the 4 endings choices were a nice touch.

⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Marvellous
☐ Excellent
☑ Meh (Requires a bit of puzzle solving skills)
☐ Starring at walls is better

☠ Difficulty ☠
☐ Frustrated
☐ Hard but not too difficult.
☑ Easy 90% of the time
☐ I play with my eyes closed

☼ Graphics ☼
☑ Beautiful
☐ It's got its own style
☐ Decent
☐ Paint.exe

♬ Music ♬
☑ Fantastic
☐ It's alright
☐ Bleed my ears out

☯ Story ☯
☐ Mind-Blowning
☐ Wow
☑ Not bad
☐ Worst
☐ There is none

♻ Length/Replayability ♻
☐ Get ready to invest some time
☑ Just enough (about 6-8h)
☐ Short
☐ Too short

5/10 ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

This has been in my wishlist for months. I really wish it was good but it wasn't. The controls are clunky, the areas are empty and they feel like they're all the same. You go from room to room looking for one item so you can open a door, rinse & repeat. Matches are... original? but kinda useless. I had to stop and look at the first enemy for a good 15-20 seconds before he could finally kill me. I'm sorry but that's a no for me.

⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Marvellous
☑ Excellent (Requires puzzle solving skills)
☐ Meh
☐ Starring at walls is better

☠ Difficulty ☠
☐ Frustrated
☐ Hard but not too difficult.
☑ Requires a lot of thinking
☐ I play with my eyes closed

☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Beautiful
☑ It's got its own style
☐ Decent
☐ Paint.exe

♬ Music ♬
☐ Fantastic
☑ It's alright
☐ Bleed my ears out

☯ Story ☯
☑ Mind-Blowning
☐ Wow
☐ Not bad
☐ Worst
☐ There is none

♻ Length/Replayability ♻
☐ Get ready to invest some time
☐ Just enough
☑ Short
☐ Too short

8/10 ★★★★★★★★☆☆

This game is awesome and original. A bit too short for my liking it's so good that we would like more of it. The scenarios are very well written and well thought. The ending got me by surprise, I really wasn't expecting it. Difficulty-wise, the questions are never too hard and you have the ability the "brute force" the answers if you ever struggle to find the answer by yourself.
So yeah, if you like detective type of game this is for you.