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I’m not sure why I see some reviews who said the game was boring... I could understand if someone felt bored while stuck on a particular task or puzzle, because there were TONS of puzzles. The game provides you with hints along the way if you get stuck. If you don’t like to use your brain then this game is not for you 😅 Besides that, the graphics in the game FOR A PHONE are so clean, and the entire gameplay is just so well thought out. I was engaged in this game for hours. I’m sad that the game was over in one day, because I could NOT put it down. The solution to one puzzle just threw you into another intricate mystery. For me, personally, I felt so much EMOTION, especially towards the end of the game before the credits when the story tied all of its ends. The music is soothing but also helped with anticipation. There were surprises LITERALLY left and right. I felt a plethora of emotions while I was playing the game from being aggravated, enlightened, excited, sad, confused, and empathy, and so on. I absolutely loved this game, it was truly a beautiful story. I would 100% play more games like this and from these developers. I say give it a try, even if it’s not your style. Try it. It actually almost brought me to tears at the end (which I hope persuades more people to finish the game). Thank you, Everbyte, for a phenomenal experience!

First I want to say this game is an amazing escape game that has excellent and challenging gameplay and puzzles. It’s definitely a few hours of play. For FREE at that. For those complaining about childhood trauma and crying as if this game “triggered” you, give me a freakin break. I experienced childhood trauma like you could never imagine. This game, with its minimal storytelling, does NOT trigger true victims of childhood abuse of any kind. You are just looking for something to complain about. Seriously though, this game was EXCELLENT. The graphics were cool and the gameplay was smooth with no glitches. Yes, I had to use the hint system but that was because I got lazy towards the end. The game has sat on my home screen for quite a while and I just never got around to playing it. Now sitting home in QUARANTINE, I finally started it tonight and I’m glad I did. It’s a lot of fun. Definitely give it a try. It’s FREE, with ads occasionally but not intrusive whatsoever. And to those complainers that say crap about spelling errors, I didn’t see any. And there DOES NOT need to be some sort of trigger warning. It’s not that serious y’all. Great game devs, I appreciate your hard work making such a great escape game. It’s not like any other I’ve played. Definitely 5 stars. And yes, this is a REAL review. 👍🏼

Haven't finished playing yet but wanted to leave a review because the game is so good. It's always great to see a quality game from a new developer. It took a little getting used to the way it works but after a few minutes all went well. The puzzles are quite challenging and are also unique - something I appreciate. The story is intriguing. The graphics are very pixilated which adds to the fun. There is a whole mansion to explore and a map to go with it. The only thing I'd add to the map is a teleport feature because there is quite a bit of running around but it's pretty easy to navigate. And you can play for free with ads or pay to go ad free which is what I did so that I could play without interruptions. All in all a great offering from a promising new developer. Thank you, Everbyte Studios! I'm already looking forward to more. Update: the fast travel map just opened up! It appeared about halfway through. Yay! Update 2: I decided to replay the game since I remembered enjoying it so much but I had forgotten about the mini arcade game. Ugh!! I don’t know how I did it the first time but don’t think I can deal with it again. Ugh again. Dev: people who play escape games don’t generally like arcade games. Can you put a skip button for it? Pretty please?

Look, it’s not perfect I’ll admit, but it’s a very fun and engaging game. I really enjoyed the unusual graphics and the storyline was really cool to slowly piece it together. Especially because I only figured out like a little piece of it right towards the end as said thing is pretty clearly being hinted at. Theres a lot of fun fairly simple puzzles and some good gatcha moments that I really appreciated. My only complaint is that sometimes the next step is very difficult to sus out without using hints. Which honestly didn’t matter a ton because the hints are very good. I appreciated the hint system a lot, mostly cause it doesn’t automatically give away anything and does it’s best to stay vague so that if you want to figure it out for yourself, it starts out just pointing you in the right direction, and progressively get more specific as you ask for hints. Absolutely what I’m looking for with hint systems. I really couldn’t recommend this game enough, especially since there’s not a ton of free really well made escape/mystery solving full-ish length games available for mobile. Thank you so much for a wonderful game experience!

This is an incredible game. The graphs are great and smooth, things are clear and easy to identify, and the music just brings everything together. It’s got such an incredible atmosphere, and the puzzles are incredibly well done (and I should know, I have over 30 irl escape rooms under my belt). My only issues are both with my personal experience, which I’m sure are exclusive to me/my device: I’m playing on a tablet, which is usually not a problem, except the controls page on the home screen and the ‘fast travel’ text are both cut off, making them hard to read/use (there could me more but I’m not done with the game yet). Also, some of the ‘snow globes’ won’t display text, which makes it impossible to finish the cutscene and move on with the game. I’ve tried viewing them from both the in-game perspective and from the office on the home screen. Other than that, this is an absolutely incredible and fun game to play for anyone who enjoys puzzles or escape rooms.

This game is really, really good. It starts off mysterious, which quickly draws you in, wanting to see where it all goes. The clues and trails are cleverly planted, and it piques your interest as you progress through it all. The game’s music creates a somehow calm tone, with some intrigue. Kind of like an eerie calm before some sort of storm. It just really fits the atmosphere. The game’s visual look and appearance with its rooms and details is really satisfying too, and the interface can be creative at times while u play, which is something I appreciate as well. There’s so much more, you just have to play for yourself and experience. Not to mention, the devs were kind enough to make such a fun and creative game, and then MAKE IT FREE. So get it already! Anyway, I gotta get back to playing and see what happens next...and then afterwards...and then after that...it’s just so interesting uncovering bits of in formation to eventually uncover the grand mystery at the end of it all! Wait, why are you still here??? What are you waiting for??? Go play Nox!

Hello, I don’t normally place a review on apps, but this game was truly the best story line, of course I won’t spoil it, but at some parts of the map, if I pressed/clicked something, there would either be no text or the game would freeze, like in the kitchen, you’d zoom into the drawn pictures, and you press/click the family drawing and there would be no text and it’d freeze, and also the snow globe, [SPOILER AHEAD] one of them looked to be empty but when I clicked of it, no text had shown (I think it was the one with eyeballs in it. But other than that, this was amazing, and it’s surprising that it’s free! This is truly remarkable, and thank you for making this possible! I really enjoyed playing this, and I’m glad others can enjoy it too since there’s no price to it. And the graphics in the game are amazing! (I especially liked the lock picking part) I hope you make more of these kind of games, and I also hope you people have the great rest of your lives! Bye! (Thanks for reading)

This game is completely free. No banner ads blocking the view or any annoying pop up ads. Yes there are ads but this game could easily cost $1.00 or more but they don’t it’s that good. The menu is a creative sneak peek into what the game looks like and has a guide for all controls. Wonderful music and sound effects. Simple designs on non important objects such as books or walls help you to decipher what is interactive and what is not by having tools and such be slightly more detailed. Along with a chat box that will tell you if your in a area where nothing can be interacted with. As a experienced escape game player this is very appreciated. Also, yes there’s ads but their short well placed ads that will only occasionally pop up as you move from room to room. They all go towards helping the creators of the game keep it free. This coming from someone who will normally turn on airplane mode as to not get ads but if it’s for a game like this and done in this way I don’t mind.

To parents and guardians: my 10 year old likes to play escape games too, so FYI for parents and guardians: there is nothing graphically violent in the story but it is a subtly disturbing murder story involving an emotionally scarred child and implying child abuse. There is, of course, also disturbing music (at times). I found this a little too hard in some places but overall it was a very enjoyable game! At first I would get lost trying to find my way through series of similar doors that I couldn’t always see depending on the way the perspective was turned. (Until I unlocked the fast travel.) Some of the puzzles were too far apart (the clue from the actual puzzle) for me and there were extraneous clues that had no meaning or objects that had no use which made things confusing and at times tedious. I have to admit I had no idea there were hints available until I read it in one of these reviews. So I imagine that would have helped tremendously. However, I loved the challenging puzzles; some that were quite unique to what I’ve seen in other escape room games. I was pleasantly glued to my phone for hours wanting to figure this out.

I spent hours and hours trying to figure out the puzzles in Nox! It’s so addicting I couldn’t put my phone down! It is very mysterious and always keeps me intrigued wanting to know what would happen next. But If they didn’t include the clues I probably would be at the same room unable to escape so I’m grateful I found that. It gets a little scary but that’s just part of the fun. Spoiler warning...there is this one part where I have to make a shape with yarn but I couldn’t replicate it the way I’m supposed to and even with the clues I can’t get it to be the same shape as the one in the children’s room chalkboard. I wish that was a bit easier because I haven’t been able to do it and I’ve been stuck there for about a week 😅. So far there hasn’t been any lagging glitches or anything like that and I’m not sure but I don’t think you have to pay for anything and usually for amazing games like this you do have to pay so I’m so happy it’s free so far. I really recommend getting this game! It is so much fun and so mysterious and scary I love it!! I just wish some things were a bit easier...

It seems like they were trying to develop a game similar to the Rusty Lake escape rooms, but failed miserably. It’s just not as fun or as engaging as those games. A lot of this game is nonsensical. Some of the tasks you have to do make little to no sense. I don’t want to play a game where everything is obvious, but some of the things you have to do are so unapparent that it’s a good thing there are free hints. The game is so dark that some of the clues are just indistinguishable from the rest of the graphics. For example, you had to put bottles of wine in order according to their color. The clue for this was in the basement, but when I went to look I could hardly tell what color the labels were and there’s no way to zoom in and take a closer look. A lot of the colors in the game aren’t far enough apart to where you can tell what they are. The story made little sense. The constant dialogue was annoying. And don’t even get me started on that ending. There is absolutely no reason why it needed to drag on that long. We get it, he’s confused and his dad abused him and his mom. We don’t need some dragged out bunch of lines trying to make double, triple, and quadruple sure that we understand. Especially if there’s no way to skip through it. I was bored by the end of this game. And there was no explanation about being able to fast jump from the different rooms. I discovered that accidentally. Good job on that though, because that was helpful.

There are things to like about this escape game, but overall I found it frustrating and a bit boring. The block graphics can get confusing since there are clues in some of the items but it’s hard to tell what is a color clue and what is just chunky pixels. I played for an hour and still felt lost in the house. The spinning room mechanic and doors that look similar make it hard to navigate. I found I got bored bouncing around the rooms and guessing what I should do next, so I was glad there were hints. But even those made references to rooms that were unclear. The map that is provided doesn’t label the rooms so I just had to guess which one they were talking about, and it took me several tries to figure out which doors would get me there. The dialogue writes itself just slow enough to be annoying, and in many instances you have to tap several times to get all the dialogue when it could have all fit on the screen in the first place. And many times I tapped on what I hoped would be tappable, just to have to click click click through the old dialogue again. I finally lost interest and gave up. I did pay the $3 to get rid of ads with no regrets since the developers show promise and I hope they do something else. I just hope they work out the parts that made this game unplayable for me.

There are some interesting puzzles here. I like the minecraft-sytle graphics. There are 2 main problems with this game. The first problem with this game is the inconsistent room states. If you move and object, open a drawer, turn on the tv, or move the dominos - they reset to their original position when you re-visit that room. It doesn’t matter if it was part of a puzzle, or not. Yet, the picture in the hallway (for example) slides off one side and hangs, but does not move anymore, and does not reset. The second problem is the fake ads for other games. It’s just bad business. The ads falsely show other gameplay that does not exist. The other games are grossly misrepresented and misleading. Why would I download another game only to find it was falsely advertized by your game? Which begs the more important question: Why should I support your Nox game, if you falsely advertise? If you can’t control what ads are shown in your game, you are foolish. If you choose to continue to falsely advertize, you are not doing youselves or your customers any favors. I played a while and got tired of the same fake ads. I can’t support bad business practices.

But then the puzzles just started to get inconsistent and convoluted and I had to look up a walkthrough at one point. The story at the end doesn’t wrap up the game at all and it wasn’t very satisfying, to say the least. If it also weren’t for the “fast travel” that I had unlocked at one point in the game, this game would have gotten really old really fast because the perspective moving system throughout the rooms was confusing and disorienting. Your inventory shows up at the bottom of your screen, which is practically overlapping with the swipe bar to your home screen, so sometimes I would find myself exiting the game without meaning to. I honestly don’t understand the high reviews and it raises suspicion. [SPOILER ALERT] You figure out that basically you had a traumatic experience as a child and are thus suffering some sort of PTSD and/or are mentally incapacitated over it. I believe you’re talking to a therapist at the end, but it seems to end just how it started — “in darkness”, so I guess you (the player) are just continuously trapped in your own mind forever? But what about dad’s laboratory and his secret surveillance room? The parents just left the child and literally forgot about him? Did they die?