Phone Escape: Hopeless

ENIGMATICON

About this game

Phone Escape is a unique and immersive story-driven escape room game. Explore and interact with the 3D environment, use the enigmatic phone to solve a variety of puzzles and unravel the mystery.
Can you escape?

CAPTIVATING STORY
You wake up within a dark basement, holding an unfamiliar mobile device which is your only source of light. A message from an unknown sender arrives, seemingly responsible for your captivity. Your only hope to escape is to follow this individual’s directives, tasked with solving challenging puzzles using all the available tools from the operating system of the mobile device along with the clues of the 3D environment to uncover the truth.

INTUITIVE CONTROLS
Using the in-game Camera App, drag to look around so as to explore and interact with the environment. Tap on hotspots to move to, or interact with places of interest. Access the available applications from the home screen of the enigmatic device.

FEATURES
★ Custom in-game is aimed at offering an experience similar to a real device.
★ “Aha Moment” puzzles that will challenge your senses and quicken your heartbeat.
★ A hint system with several levels of assistance is available to help players who encounter difficulty solving certain puzzles.
★ Realistic visuals optimized to perform on any device.
★ Original music and sounds.
★ Single-hand touch controls, easy to interact with.
★ A compelling narrative.
★ Approximately 3 hours of gameplay.

💡 Recommendation:
The game is best experienced with headphones in a dimly lit or dark room.

Website:
https://enigmaticon.com

Ratings and reviews

A short and sweet puzzle game with an intriguing narrative. The puzzles are strictly sequential with a hint system so you needn't fear getting stuck. Be aware that this is just the start of what is positioned as a longer story. Would be a 5-star game but ran into technical bugs: one where the camera wouldn't advance past the vase puzzle to allow solving the map puzzle, and the bookshelf puzzle where two books snapped into the same slot. Forcing an app reset unblocked the puzzles.

One of the best puzzle games I have ever played! Feels like a mix between the room and lifeline. The puzzles are rather challenging but the hint system is helpful, although with enough time you don't need it and can figure everything out. The background music and ambience is great, the artwork is fantastic and the ending hit like a truck (pun intended). Also the idea of playing through a phone camera with dwindling battery is simple but genius. 10/10 can't wait for more!

As someone who has played more than 30 escape rooms, i can say that the experience that this app offers is wonderful. The story is unexpectedly unique, as it unfolds in front of your eyes in a playful way. The puzzles were nice (some hard, some easy). Keeping up with the story keeps you at the edge of your chair as you can interact with the game. (not saying more because it will be spoiler). Keep up the good work

What’s new

• Changed some clues to be more clear
• Adjusted hints to offer better help without solutions
• Increased performance in older devices
• Various bug fixes