Riddlord: The Consequence

This is a fantastic puzzle game, no idea what the story was about but that didn´t spoil it. The only thing that did was having to restart twice because of mouse control bugs that meant you could't progress and as there are no saves, you have to start again. Still I look forward to the next one.

A puzzle game where for several puzzles the greater challenge is not to figure out how to reach a solution, but rather how to make the controls do what you want

Chapter One - I liked the game and wondered why everyone else hated it.
Chapter Two - I started to figure out why everyone complained about wonky controls costing so much time.
Chapter Three - I started to hate the game because the storyline went south along with the controls. The puzzles were extremely lame as well. I'd be more intrigued with crayons and a coloring page if you're going to make me match what color grass, sky, water, and so on are.

The hints are also worthless. Don't even bother using them.

We recommend it for the price. Enjoyed playing it but there were some frustrating issue with fiddly control , Some puzzles were very good whilst others a bit strange

like many other people we were stuck at ying yang spheres ....pc crashed and lost the saved games not an issue cos we were fed up trying to do puzzle...

Purchased this thinking it would be like The Room. They seemed to be trying for the same concept but the controls, details and puzzles are lacking.

Yes, it's interesting, but also exasperating in many ways. Bunch of woo-woo puzzles based on mystic concepts like I-ching trigrams, but no logic to them whatsoever. Somehow the mysticism of the puzzles relates to the deeds of the four fictional-real serial murderers whose lives and careers this game tries to connect in a fictional plot. Premise possibly of interest, but what the actual puzzles and clunky execution of same have to do with the premise is hardly convincing. Some puzzles were relatively straightforward; others like the I-ching trigrams were totally arbitrary as far as this player could tell. I would recommend with reservations.

If you like "The Room" series or "House of Da Vinci", this game is very similar to those. It has a lot of game play which consists of thoughtful puzzles ranging from average to very difficult to complete. For the amount of time and play I had, it was worth the money. Other than the fact that some puzzles really stumped me (my fault - not the programmers' fault), my only real issue I had with the game is that it had no true ending/completion. You were left hanging with a incomplete story line and not all the items you were searching for in the game. There was definitely a sense that the developers didn't have time to complete the game and released it anyway leaving the public in the lurch. I would still recommend it but wish I felt more gratified with the ending.

I know design puzzles is hard, but that don't mean putting two rubik's cube thing there is acceptable.
Please replace them next time with just a Sudoku, cross word, a calculus problem or something with somewhat equal difficulties to general public.
First level is fine, second a bit harder, third is challenging. Some puzzles require sort of knowledge. So far so good. But the final senario is just stupid. Simply remove the final level would turn many negative reviews into positive, based on others comments.
Other things are all good.

This game is clearly inspired by The Room series and keeping that in mind, it fails to deliver in both quality and concept. There's another review on here that states the game has a strong start and it does right up until a 2x2 Rubix Cube puzzle and that's when the problems with the game start to show up.

Pros

*Writing is serviceable to the plot, it's not amazing but it gets the job done.
*Atmosphere, feels detective and mystery themed
*Music was pretty good
*Graphics and details are good

Cons

*Controls, the number one reason a particular puzzle in chapter 3, made me write this review and put this game down because they are just so, so bad. It feels there is almost no consideration considered for how this affects desktop users when it was ported from iOS.
*Hints are not good, work needs to be done on these. It often told me what I already knew but not direct me in a way that guides me.

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A lot of the time I just found myself engaging in trial and error when I just did not know what do with a puzzle. It tries so desperately to be like The Room series, which is very good btw A+ recommend, but it just falls flat. The difficulty curve seems all over the place with the puzzles, which would be fine if the hint system wasn't just so vague.

A special eff you to the cylinder puzzle in chapter 3 and the Rubix in Chapter 1. These aren't fun, they aren't engaging, they are simply trial and error.

It can be done better.

3/10

Terrible interfaces to puzzles that are more grindy than clever, and the other reviews say it gets worse later on? Refunded.

Great art, janky controls, unimaginitive puzzles, but it's the absolutely mangled writing and decimated grammar contrasting with the earnest tone that makes this a must-play.

Excellent, good difficulty - challenging enough to keep it interesting, but not frustrating. Really great atmosphere.

The controls for this are SO bad. They were bad on iOS and they're just as bad here too. Some of the puzzles are absolutely nightmarish to interact with because of this.

As for the puzzles themselves, well, usually the fun in these types of games is trying to figure out where the puzzles even are and how they work in the first place. Here, not so much. For example, there's nothing mysterious about a giant 2x2 rubik's cube sitting in front of you. It's just really tedious, especially with these controls. The hints are testament to this - you're going to get things like "you should try lining the images up", like, yeah, thanks.

Riddlord is a puzzle game inspired from The Room series with puzzles of various difficulty ranking from easy to hard (there were 2 puzzles I had to draw on paper to solve).

It consists of 3 chapters and some kind of epilogue with an open-ending.

I enjoyed the 3 chapters very much. And chapter 3 definitely has the most challenging puzzles in the game. Kudos to the players that can finish it in less that 20 minutes...

But then the epilogue was kind of disappointing. It was very contrasting with the rest of the game. Puzzles were too easy and I met some difficulties for moving around, so I did not end the game on a very good note... Still I am curious to see what the developers have planned for the next opus.

Now about the story, I found it was very superficial. It definitely is not the strong point of the game, so don't expect too much on that side.


Also, I ended the game with two unanswered questions:
- there were a coded text I was not able to decipher (I tried for a bit, but then moved forward with the game and I forgot about it...) and I wonder what it said,
- also I have no idea if the figurines found in each chapter had any purpose...
If someone had any info about this, let me know!


In all, this game is definitely made for puzzle lovers, so if you like puzzles, you should definitely try it out.

Riddlord showed itself as a really difficult, and you defenitly requires will to solve the puzzles. Main disadvantage - inconvinient control. I am sure a lot of players won't be able to complete the game, and those who didn't like are probably angry on its complexity. BUT IF YOU WANT TO TRAIN BRAINS AND CHECK YOUR MIND, I ADVISE.

if you like the room series, pick this up, it's very similar, but longer and a lot more difficult, and unlike the room games, it's priced fairly in euros and isn't insanely overpriced like certain clones ported lazily from mobile. it was a bit buggy on release, nothing that going back to the main menu couldn't fix, but now you can take screenshots without it messing up the inventory.

saving's supposed to happen after every completed action, and by design not during a puzzle, but it doesn't always work, so coming back from a break might mean re-doing a few things, picking up an item again, for instance. it shouldn't be anything major, but at one point I had to re-do the game's worst puzzle in chapter 3 (followed closely by the cube in chapter 1). controls are a bit wonky, which made things even worse there.

hopefully the planned sequel gets made and released on pc with fewer problems and a chapter select option for convenience. in the meantime, if you need help finding the secrets, check out my guide here on steam.

Starts strong. Devolves into color matching game with making objects hard to find in the scenery replacing actual puzzles. Interface is awkward on desktop, objects don't move or rotate properly, hints are utterly useless. Final level is obviously slapped together as quickly as they could with basic children's puzzles.

Example hint: "There's something in this box you need."

This is a "puzzle box/room" game in the same style as The Room series of games. It is not as polished as The Room, there are a few (thankfully skippable after a while) puzzles, and the story is complete garbage, but for a fiver it's worth the money.

(Though you really should play The Room series first, if you haven't already.)

The player assumes the role of FBI Detective Jack Rede. Unknown kidnapped his son, Spark, and Jack goes in search of him. On the way to salvation, the player will have to meet many riddles and puzzles, their solution will shed light on the origin of the criminal, and on the life of the detective.

Details of the plot are revealed by the environment. Some puzzles are extemely hard to solve.