Adventure Escape: Murder Manor Hack 2.3 + Redeem Codes

I find most hidden/escape/puzzle games, for me are not often challenging enough. This game has a “Clue”-esk vibe to it. Which I love. Clue is an old favorite of mine. So far the searches really make me work for it to get what I need. This game does not give you instructions as to how to solve things. That’s part of the difficulty I would assume? Which is great because not too many games really allow you to have to think. They pretty well guide you along. Not this one, I love that I exercise my brain in a way very few games (that I have played, this is obviously personal perspective here) have been able to accomplish. I enjoy that the puzzles are not monotonous, and hopefully will be more and more challenging as it goes. Storyline has plenty of holes for intrigue for the player to enjoy filling the gaps of who’s who and why.

The game plays like an escape room type game with a small story with well illustrated characters and environments. Gameplay is divided into levels narrowing down complexity per puzzle and can take a couple of hours or so to finish.

While the story isn’t anything special, it is nice to have something that feeds into the puzzles. Puzzles usually make sense in relation to the story and each other, instead of just being random correlations like some escape games. The puzzle difficulty is a little all over the place, with some being ridiculously obvious and easy and others being so complicated they feel out of place.

Some puzzles require outside knowledge and research to come up with the answers. This is a nice touch to in depth gameplay, but in contrast to the more abundant easier puzzles it can be hard to realize what’s required when you get to the more difficult ones. It can also be difficult to guess what the game wants you to do with a specific puzzle, where you will know the information for the answer but the way it’s inputted can be guesswork, leading to a lot of time just inputting things in different ways until finding what form of the answer the game wants.

The game is fun, interactive, and the puzzles are sometimes easy, sometimes challenging. I didn’t realize the nature of the game at first, which is that it’s basically like playing on onscreen escape room. Silly me, didn’t get the “escape” part of the title right away. So I ended up starting out a bit frustrated and using up way too many hints. The hints are very annoying, because the very first hint costs you several stars, yet gives you no brainer type info. I was already aware of what needs to happen, but I’m trying to figure out how I get there. To get the kind of hint I’m looking for costs way more stars than what I have. There was also one scene that annoyed me a bit because I understood the concept of what I was supposed to do, but every time I entered the answer, it was incorrect. I used up a ridiculous amount of stars on hints just for it to tell me what I already knew. Finally I decided to include something in my answer from an entirely different room...and what do you know, it was correct then. It was frustrating and I was down to very few stars at that point. Other than that and the annoyingly unhelpful hints, it seems to be a fun game.

At first I was a bit confused about how it all works, I caught on pretty quick. I enjoy solving the puzzles. I got stuck at a few of them but figured them out after spending a few minutes pondering. The only puzzle in this game that I had a problem with was the books on the shelf. The hint didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me and the only way that I solved it was by leaving the puzzle (still in the room) and looking at the shelf. Even after I had “solved” it I still didn’t really understand. I tried to click on the shelf again to see if I could look at them but it locked me out of the shelf. It would be nice if we could go back into the puzzles without starting the chapter over again to see and understand the puzzle. I wouldn’t need to interact with it obviously but it would be nice to get a visual after it kicks me out because sometimes I’m not ready when it does, or I’m still pondering the puzzle after I’ve finished it. Just some suggestions, but overall great game! Really enjoyed it. I’m looking into the other series as well. 👍

I really enjoy the Haiku mystery game series. Each is filled with a great story, nice puzzles (each originals to each story so you aren’t repeating the same style over and over again) and brain teasers, perfect for occupying the mind but not so difficult that I get frustrated. Not to say I don’t get stuck. It happens often. But I know the game style has set up the clues so I retrace my steps to see what I missed or rethink a method to see if I need to work differing angles. This really keeps me engaged. Thanks for such a beautiful, very well set up series. I usually can work a story over a day or two time permitting.

If I had a recommendation it would be to offer an option to skip the tutorial. I’ve played so many of these that it’s frustrating going through the steps repeatedly when I just want to get to gameplay. Otherwise, big fan!

I’ve just started playing this line of mystery games today and I love them all! I’m in the middle of this one but today I have finished the Escape the Asylum one and the Escape the Cult one. Always an interesting storyline! Finding items and figuring out the puzzles is challenging but fun, and if you can figure out most of them on your own, you definitely have enough stars to get hints for the more difficult puzzles. I’ve been avoiding my responsibilities today just to play this (oops) because they’re so fun! My only criticism (if you’d even call it that) is the graphics, which is really more of my personal preference. These graphics are good but I just preferred the graphics of a different game I played. All in all, magnificent! I feel smart and a real think-outside-the-box wiz after doing these! Make more!!

I used to play games like this as a kid and had lost them for close to twenty years. I found Haiku games and haven’t played anything else since. I’m glad they have some that don’t make you pay to play more than a chapter at a time. That helps stretch the game out for free to play players but assists in losing interest faster as well. As far as the difficulty aspect I would say that I enjoy the mental exercise and the fact that it’s not a mind numbing game. These challenging games keep me interested, I wouldn’t recommend trying some of their other titles if this game is frustratingly difficult unless you want a challenge. I want to say thank you to the developers, I have enjoyed my time playing your games.

Awesome overall if you like solving brain teasers mixed with some hidden objects. Difficulty is perfect — some puzzles really make you work for it, but are solvable if you pay attention to detail and realize the onscreen clues do not necessarily mean what you first think they do.

Tip: If you don’t want to run out of stars (for hints) prematurely, keep your finger away from the large star/skip button in the puzzle screens. Several times there were objects near it, and it mistakenly thought I wanted to use my stars to skip that puzzle. That forced me to delete, reinstall, and play the game all over again from scratch several times so I could solve the puzzles myself and keep my stars for hints when I really needed them.

At first, when I saw this game I thought it would be one of those dumb easy games where all you do is look for clues and wonder hopelessly how clicking on random things will help solve a mystery AT ALL! But I got lucky and these games are SO much better! I love these games! I can’t stop playing! I love all the complex codes and puzzles. Sometimes I’d get stuck and get frustrated but then I’d realize there’s just one missing piece of the puzzle that I hadn’t discovered yet and —BOOM!

One thing I’d recommend is maybe putting all the mysteries into one game instead of having to download another app for each mystery. Just a suggestion!

My point is: I love this game and if you are thinking about getting it you definitely should!

I started this and liked it. Puzzles are challenging but doable. When you need a hint, you get charged for steps you’ve already gone through which is what makes them expensive. Second many of the puzzles appear at the same time so you have no idea what order to do them in.
Like I said I liked it in the beginning, and if there was just a little order I would keep playing. But instead I end up using all the kids to get to an answer like the pedestals all need to be even. That much I figured out to begin with so we spend all of our hints just to get a hint that tells us what we already know.
It’s a shame because I liked the story and I like the puzzle. But I shouldn’t have to use all my hints to get an answer I already know. So I’m gonna delete this game because it’s frustrating.