TAIKU MANSION

Mi vida antes de probar esto era horrible,mis 2 padres me abandonaron,se murio mi abuela,mis perros y mis tios,no tenia nocion del tiempo,mi vendedor de dinamita me sapeo con la policia y ahora mismo estan fuera de mi casa.
cuando probe este juego mi vida cambio,mis 2 padres regresaron,junto con mi abuela,mis perros y mis tios,la policia desaparecio y gane 20000 euros por una banana gold,fui al casino aposte todo y lo perdi,claro,el dinero,pero la emocion al jugar este titulazo no se pierde ya que es el gotty del año en mi opinion,(denme un premio para comprarme un marco)

Trapped in a mansion, with your only way out being to solve the puzzles laid before you.

A short retro-looking puzzle game. I don't agree with the mixed reviews of this game but I definitely think the price of the game is a bit much for what you get...

Yeah, its... pretty bad.

Pretty mid adventure game. I don't recommend it, even at the rock bottom sale prices it often sells at.

If you want an easy 100% though, this is basically 15 minutes for 11 achievements 100% completion, so that's a plus, if you're an achievement hunter.

I mean, there is just better games out there, this isn't worth the money or the time. just play old DOS games
and UE5 for a 2D game? why?

TAIKU MANSION is a real train wreck of a game... the screenshots are highly deceptive and don't appear in the game with the quality demonstrated. The game is just a bunch of static images with a text/HTML type point and click "adventure" game that lasts about 15 minutes. You navigate the house by clicking on buttons that move you into different rooms, where you're presented with a jaggy, pixellated low res image of a room that looks to have been stolen from some other mobile app Hidden Object puzzle games. Oof. This is accompanied by pretty awful writing, for example, accomplished authors don't write "Hehehehehahahaa" in their dialogue. I'm not sure if this was meant to be some kind of joke game or if the developer genuinely and sincerely thought it would be okay to dump this garbage on Steam.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.

The game features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/flash games. While the artwork itself, while mediocre, might be considered passable, the visual presentation here is negligible, it might as well be a slideshow or a Youtube video. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids had more advanced animation and visuals going on than this game does. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static images... it might as well be a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC.

The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at 1080p, a very low resolution that became mainstream back in 2006 and became obsolete when 4K entered the mainstream in 2014. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers.

The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

TAIKU MANSION didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for starting the game, but only around 11 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 11 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

TAIKU MANSION is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

User reviews: Mostly Negative
no words anymore

Very Old program. It was just barely OK. (Very pixelated) It was entertaining for $0.99. The worst is that I now can't get it uninstalled from my PC.

I usually don't write reviews but this game was so bad I have to. I don't know how the audio sounds because it won't play for me. One of the puzzles is music based which meant I had to watch a video of someone else doing it. That music puzzle is stupid and bad game design. The dev wants you to play The Wall in C on the piano, but the right key combinations IS NOT The Wall melody. Oh and my favorite puzzle that said something about the code is on the back of a different game box... What is that supposed to mean? Apparently the dev had to give out the answer so people could play. This is the epitome of bad game design. Puzzles that don't make any sense and maybe 6 minutes actual gameplay time if that. This game costs 99 cents. If you offered me $10 to play it again I would refuse the money. Garbage. Dev if you are reading this you are quite audacious charging for a game that ANY GAME JAM GAME could easily put to shame. Conclusion, puzzles don't make any sense. The game is partially broken. You solve 9 puzzles and that is it. Don't waste your money. Even the worst free game on Steam is better than this. This is how NOT to design a game.

The 9 clues

• Taiku Mansion is reminiscent of some of these text-based adventure games from the old days that had pixelated graphics and a rather simple approach to gameplay.
  
• We are trapped in the titular mansion and our job is to flee. In order to do so we have to visit 9 rooms and, accordingly, solve 9 puzzles. Solving one puzzle results in the opening of a new door so you know where you have to go.
  
• Actually, you do not really know as you are not told which room got open. We have a map at our disposal and unlocked rooms are highlighted but when you already have a lot opened you might just wander into the very same you've been to before. A map is supposed to help you as the rooms can be found downstairs as well as upstairs.
  
• I do not have an issue with games having pixelated graphics but when the UI looks equally horrible I do not appreciate it. Not from a game released last year - if I want I can just run an old adventure game utilising DosBox.
  
• Some puzzles are OK but others are too cryptic. So much so that whatever easter egg or meta joke the creator hid there you will probably not understand and will eventually rely on a guide.
  
[*]Which is exactly what this game is for. Using a guide to 100% complete it so that's one more game on your list if you are a completionist. The ending is a bit of a cliffhanger but I will probably skip the sequel (if there are any plans for it). Taiku Mansion represents a good idea with bad execution. Not recommended.

Taiku Mansion is a puzzle game which you are a person with a name i do not remember stuck in a mansion in which a ''sadistic'' person wants you to play his puzzling games in order to escape from the house.

The game itself is really and i mean like .... literally short. The graphics were terrible (pixels) and the gameplay was only about solving puzzles which you have to be a God knows who in order to complete them with success. Anyway thank God, someone posted a guide about it and i finished it ...

If you are an achievement hunter i would recommend getting it since it's so easy to get the achievements. If you are not, i do not recommend it buying it unless you get it for free like i did.

Well, i both recommend buying it and not but Steam doesn't have the ''neutral'' vote so i'll go with the positive one just for the achievements i obtained.

What a remarkable experience.

The game starts out with a breathtaking symbol...a monster that looks like a bent willy.

It then gets even better as the introduction sets the scene for what will be a stuuning shortish trip. Get your popcorn ready before you play this one as you will feel as though you are at the movies.

The doors are really well painted, with all of them looking startlingly different. Ambient sounds are quite the shock, with the clicking of the doors being that Yessssssss moment of meciful release from some of the more complex puzzles.

Speaking of puzzles, most are not so tough but the piano puzzle near the start will need some experimentation. The best puzzle and I genuinely believe it to be one of the greatest puzzles of all adventure games (Everyone MUST try it!) is puzzle number 7. Don't read spoiler reviews that give away the answer as it is a puzzle of absolute genius. I have never encountered a game (and I have played LOTS of point and click adventures) with such a unique and brilliant puzzle. This puzzle alone makes the whole experience well worth the price of entry.

Upon completion, we are offered the teaser that there may be more coming...a sequel perhaps...with more stunning puzzles like puzzle 7 (or even 1). Ohhhh yesssss pleassssse :):)

rubbish, germen translation is a joke. No real story, no graphic, way to easy quests
complete crap and not worth 10 Cent

Pretty bad puzzles made no sense to the game

INCREDIBLY short and the 'puzzles' were a joke. Took about 15 minutes to 100% everything, so there's that, I guess. Don't buy.

Ugh, what can you say that others have already said...terrible.

Interesting game. Definitely a throwback to the older Puzzle games like Myst but with less exploration and more direct puzzle solving. Had an issue on the Piano but it makes sense once you solve it and the 2nd to last puzzle also had me confused as there was no real hints anywhere for it =(

Overall not a bad game, I liked the presentation. Would recommend picking it up on sale, probably not a good time/value ratio at the full price.

Good old style classic game, brings back nostalgia feelings.

I originally bought the game due to seeing reviewers being dicks but ended up plesantly suprised with a relatively fast but fun game. Piano puzzle didn't take me as long as others or stop me as I used my brain to deduce the answer.

Overall, good experience, really fun to play and get those old school vibes from as well as a nice little puzzler.

Was awesome to play that game. Would play it again.
No problems or anything. Only the translation is sometimes weird so I would play it in English.

10/10

ok, so there is an answer to the piano puzzle, the dev added it to my youtube page...
If anyone is having problems with the piano puzzle, you can check out his response there...

https://youtu.be/MtSDWWghTKs