Solve Me If You Can - "Strange Inheritance"

Updated: Apr 28

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Company: Solve Me If You Can

Game: Strange Inheritance

Country: New Zealand 🇳🇿

Language: English

Type of Game: Online Puzzle Game 💻

Genre: Adventure

Date Played: 4/17/2021

Difficulty (based on 4 players): 5.5/10

Size of Team: 2-4 players

Time: Unlimited (Suggested time Approx. 1 Hour)

Price: $15.00/ Team

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An mysterious map that could potentially pinpoint the location of an ancient pyramid and a tomb bought Samantha and Benjamin together. Do they really know each other as well as they think? Let's put this childhood bond to the test...

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You can play this game either as teams of 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2. Once you purchase the game, a code will be send to your email (make sure to check your spam folder as that's where ours went). Team one will log into the game using this code first (if you're playing with 2 ppl on your team then just share the same code with that person). Once they are logged into the game, they'll receive another code which they'll give to team two. Once everyone is logged into the game, the team leader will press the start button. A timer will start and from that point, you'll have 24 hours to finish the game.

Team one's player(s) and team two's player(s) will be seeing different game screens. The items on the screen are interactive and mostly act as "click-n-drag" pieces. The key to solving these puzzles is communication. Each team will need to inform the other on the clues they've discovered in order to gain a correct location on the map. The ultimate goal is to piece together the shredded map and find the location to the tomb. If you get stuck, there are build-in nudging hint system and solutions in the game.

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Most of the puzzles were not too difficult but there's a good variation of decryption, word play and association. We played the game as 2 vs 2 mode. We had a bit of a late start as we haven't played team style with the other two players before. Since our team had more information to look at at the beginning, we had a lot of random information to throw at the other team. The other team felt like the information did not pertain to what they were working on as it didn't quite fit the given information visually. Since our team had more items to interact with, we kind of forcefully solved two puzzles without knowing that we did until later on. This kind of put the game play out of order as when our other team finally picked up their pace and gave us more information from their end, we had already solved them. Our advice would be to trust your instinct and your teammates and try not to second guess too much on the instructions.

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I love cooperative type of games that gets the players working together to solve puzzles as they give the players their own moments to shine. These types of games are normally designed with components where you will not be able to solve this game without the other person. Sometimes when I play games with puzzlers who's amazingly fast at solving puzzles, I feel like I don't get a chance to contribute or solve any of the puzzles in the game. This game gave all the players a chance to do something. Whether it be simply describing a picture or putting in a code, it feels like accomplishment. This is Solve Me If You Can's first digital game and we really enjoyed it. We look forward to more of their games in the future!

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Disclosure: We thank Solve Me If You Can for providing us with a sample of the game. Although complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.