The Secret of Chimera Labs Hack 1.01.16 + Redeem Codes

After playing and enjoying Mystery on Telescope Hill (also by Aircamp), I was looking forward to Secret of Chimera Labs. I wasn’t disappointed. This game was much longer and significantly harder...not that I’m complaining. Like other Aircamp games, the puzzles are more complex than the repetitive slider/combination lock puzzles found in most games in this genre. They’re also organic to the story and the environments, which I always find more interesting. These puzzles can be tricky, and some require walking away and coming back later with fresh eyes, but solving them is always possible without hints, and rewarding as a result.

I appreciate that the game generates a journal for you, since there is a LOT of information required to suss out the clues in these multi-layered puzzles. There is some light math involved, and I sometimes had trouble differentiating between sight variations in color, but that didn’t detract from the fun. Overall, this game isn’t quite on the level of the Room and House of DaVinci games, but it’s a pretty solid entry in the genre, and well worth playing.

Creative and clever, the settings and puzzles in this game don’t conform to the standard point and click game expectations— Chimera Labs is weird and wonderful and the puzzles are interesting and range from simple to challenging.

I only have two complaints! One, some of the puzzles rely on math skills that were beyond my ability. I would have liked some help for those of us who are not numbers-inclined. Two, the art is great but the font treatments are terrible and look like they crawled out of 2004 Photoshop! They are really jarring in comparison to the well-rendered scenes and take away from the overall quality of the game.

The graphics are okay but the controls are primitive at best. No panning or moving around in the room. You can touch a doorway to move/jump to the other room, then hit the circle arrow icon to move back to the previous room. I found “the room” and “XON” to be much better games for about the same price (the first 2 parts of the room were cheaper).

The pop up description/comments were soooo annoying. I would touch on objects looking for things to pick up and pop up descriptions would continuously come up covering a frustrating amount of the screen. The pop up comments/descriptions would be things like “ergonomic chair” or “there are lots of books”. The game would seriously be improved by deleting 90% of the comments/descriptions.

This game really had me hooked and kept me playing for days! Don’t interpret the 4-star review as a dig; for me, the 5-star rating is reserved for those few games (like Gorogoa and The Room series) which have taken point-and-click to the next level. The best part about this game is the immersive, science-based puzzles which come at you in unexpected ways in an environment that keeps unfolding and unfolding. This is DEFinitely worth the buy, and I’ll keep playing!

Deliciously tricky - not for beginners but not ridiculously impossible, either. Minor bug in the agar puzzle...the clippings appear there at one point even before you have them. Confused the heck out of me :P A less minor bug: the lever in the last room is really difficult to switch! You tap on it maybe 8 times to get it to trigger once. Makes a relatively straightforward puzzle extremely frustrating!!! Please fix that one...

Intricate science-y puzzles you will eventually solve if you keep looking and realize clues and solutions are usually not co-located. I had to use the hint button once...only because I made the safe puzzle more complicated than I should have. Read everything...this isn’t a game where the manuals and blueprints are for show. I had a lot of fun with this, and may have broken out in a sweat a couple times haha.

I like Aircamp Games' other games better mostly because sci-fi is just not my thing. I originally passed on this one but picked it up when it went free. It's very long, very unique, and well done, but far too much work for a game. Maybe a skip option would have helped lessen the burden in that respect. I do hope Aircamp releases more games soon. If anything it would give kimtwilight69 a chance to pull out that thesaurus again..lol. Thanks!

I enjoyed this game a lot. It has some interesting puzzles to work out. It would be helpful and convenient to be able to rate the game from inside the game instead of having to go to the App Store to find it and rate it. Make it easy on your fans, developers. :-) And please make more games, Aircamp, I've enjoyed three of your games so far.

I’ve been searching for great point and click adventures on iOS and this definitely fulfills that wish. The story is interesting and creative. The puzzles have just the right level of difficulty. The length is good; there’s a lot of game here. Very well done.

Not even Cyan’s games are this complicated. I relied on the hints for 90% of the game, it entails a lot of running through many scene rooms, much back and forth, with little obvious connection between puzzles... unless maybe you’re a major in botany, genetics, robotics, astrophysics, chemistry, cybernetics, ad nauseam. The goal seemed to be to touch as many disciplines as possible, with no rational other than to titillate every nerd’s specialty. At least it didn’t run into any software bugs.