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by The Hungry Creative

While the game idea is fresh, the execution is disappointingly mediocre. The text- based game gui is bland. I totally regret purchasing the $3.99 upgrade to remove the ads, which I did out of frustration because the ads were constant and delayed moving between hints and missions at every turn. The storyline is not at all interesting, and solving clues became repetitive and boring - it basically boils down to doing a lot of Google searches and decoding flag semaphores, ciphers, ASCII, etc., none of which I care to spend my time doing. The clues were sophomoric. Even more frustrating is the fact that once I got through all the missions, which didn’t take long, I was prompted to download another app to continue chapter 2 of this boring story and probably will need to pay another $3.99 to remove ads from that app. I wouldn’t recommend this game to anyone.

by Nitrogenx

What’s wrong: If you know what ASCII and Caesar ciphers are, then that’s basically the what’s in store for you here as far as clues go. Because the clues are on images, you find yourself transcribing numbers and text from the images in a way that feels like busywork. You’re encouraged to Google things, but the game is popular enough now that all the clues have been Google bombed (i.e. Google will auto fill the clue and tell you the answer to many of them now). The in-game browser lacks page search and navigation is broken (the back button passes through taps and this mutes and unmutes sound rather than going back). Sometimes the browser crashes and displays strange iOS errors. I ended up paying to get rid of the ads right away as I really have no patience for the kind of ads they show. Since they show up super early and fairly often I really hadn’t even gotten a taste of the game yet.

What’s right: The in game browser is a thoughtful touch, as is the notes feature. There are hints of a clever storyline. The image viewer for clues does give a sense of immersion missing in other games of the genre.

Unfortunately I just can’t get through the tedium of the clues, but I’m glad to have supported the developers. I have a feeling they’ll be making better games in the future.

by Jennifercha

It’s a great idea for a game and the puzzles aren’t too difficult for it to be frustrating.

However, the browser within the game is frustrating to use since the “back” button seems to be glitchy. 98% of the time I use the back button, I’m led to an “oops there seems to be an error” page. This can be very annoying since the trial and error nature of researching online requires frequent use of the back button. Otherwise, I’m forced to go back to the homepage of google and re-search the same thing. Well, not “forced” since I can just use my own web browser on my phone.

The game would’ve had a smoother process with the in-game browser working properly but it‘a simply a minor disruption to open the safari on my phone.