Mobile Escape - "Escape Mail - S01E08: Metro Madness"

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Company: Mobile Escape

Game: Escape Mail - S01E08: Metro Madness (Hard version)

Country: Canada 🇨🇦

Language: English

Type of Game: Puzzles By Mail 📬

Genre: Adventure, Mystery

Time: Unlimited

Size of Team: Unlimited

Date Played: 3/16/2021

Price: $14.99 CAD or subscribe to save

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JJ is free again from the Hunters (with your help of course)! But the Hunters are still one step ahead of us and we need to find their safehouse in this town as soon as possible. We have to steal back the key so we can find that treasure! Let's help JJ with his mission once again...

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Each of the episodes can be played independently as the puzzles does not require you to know of any prior knowledges from the previous episodes. If you want to know the story line, check the recap section on their website.

In this chapter, you're provided with an intro letter, a city brochure, a metro ticket, a photo strip, and a guide map. If you don't feel like reading the intro letter, you can go to the instructed website for an intro video instead. This is also the site to enter all your answers. The input is in text bot format and acts like a communication device between you and JJ.

As you direct JJ to a right location, you'll be awarded with a video. It's quite nice to feel the "adventure" along JJ's side with these added components.

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Your goal in this mission is to help JJ track down the secret location of the Hunters. There are various clues that has been left on these documents. We found that it was confusing for us to know which was the first location that they wanted as we started discovering many other clues just by looking at different connections on the paper clues. If you have the regular version of the game, it might be a clearer path with the flow card. Once we figured out the first location with a nudging hint, then the rest of the journey were quite smooth. The photo strip was an easy puzzle but the way the clues were presented made the puzzle felt harder than it was. Our favorite puzzle was what the creators thought was the hardest. It was the most satisfying one for us and we actually completed that a lot faster than the other puzzles in this episode.

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This episode felt more like a puzzle hunt. I guess it goes well with their theme since we're "hunting" down the Hunter's location. A few of the puzzles felt like they could be solved in a non-linear fashion but the code input has to be done in a sequential way. This was the only thing that gave us hiccups during our game play. Other than that we enjoyed JJ taking us on a little tour around the beautiful town of Ratselstadt.

Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of these game:

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Disclosure: We thank Mobile Escape for providing us with samples of their game. Although complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.

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