The Blue Prince Review: A FreeFians Growing in a constantly changing palace

To summon the Blue Prince game, the puzzle game fails to admit many ways, many ways will surprise its complex systems and are raised by players who yearn for secrets and walking. It is one of the most unique puzzle games in years, and although its mechanical tricks and obstacles can rise for you, the Blue Prince is Masterclass in the design of those who yearn to lose themselves in a mysterious palace around the clock.

The Blue Prince is an independent game by the developer Dogubomb, outside April 10. The players play the role of Simon, the young grandson in Nabila Al-Ghariba, recently leaving, and left behind a 45-room property-and promised a great reward if the 46-rod room can be found. With a daily change, the search is not easy, but each of them runs through the estate discovers new secrets.

The game itself is the adventure of the first person to disintegrate in your bird-what was called “walking simulation”-in an artistic style that appears in wide watercolor, giving each room a distinctive dynamic and personal look. Simple graphic music adds a layer of comfortable mystery to your exploration, while the distinctive sound effects of capturing the elements bring a sense of tact to the empty palace – where nothing moves unless you do this.

There are elements of ancient games – family exploration in the remaining Edith Vinci, and puzzles like in the witness – but the blue prince is a unique experience, which is revealed modernity over time. Players start at the bottom of the palace in the entrance hall and must make their way up, including empty spaces to place the rooms. It includes a lot of the game walking even the door and placing one of dozens of excellent rooms, each of which has its own planning and purpose – bedrooms, gardens, corridors, exercise rooms, security stations and more.

Each door offers three new options for the rooms, which differ in a scarcity and based on their progress through the palace. Thanks to this diversity, the header of the palace – five rooms with a width of nine rooms – looks completely different every day. Since the rooms also contain different numbers of doors, players must carefully weigh their options between progressing towards their goals and avoiding the possible clogged parties.

In my first few days, I quickly learned how easy the doors are and ending early. After eight hours of revealing the secrets of the house, I thought I was about to approach the end game – but there was a lot. The Blue Prince has a talent to detect new layers of jobs with every daily reassurance. Even when my paths reach clogged ends, I have been a newly discovered room or permanent bonn attracted me to another run.

I also learned how the different rooms worked, settled in a rhythm – and so did my strategy. I will choose the cabinet early to hunt a special element or one of the few currencies that can be eliminated (gold, keys, gemstones to unlock the unique rooms). Or I will go to the billiard room to solve the puzzle and earn a prize, such as one of the rare keys that open the most essential palace rooms. The big puzzles began to fall in their place, and I found myself to mute loudly – the only company in this strange palace, and the only one that I can trust in its secrets and shadows.

There is a random on every daily and uncertainty daily. It also distinguishes the Blue Prince from the Puzzle House games such as the excellent Lorelei games last year and laser eyes, which have a firm and non -variable pattern of brain harassment to detect (you can find online evidence to roam you in every part of these games). But the new daily design game from Blue Prince re -redeseing it so that even after the guides have come out of a bond of puzzles, the players will still need to become smart with the minors ’building mechanics to win the game.

This inability to predict suddenly disappointing ends can lead to days due to unlucky clouds from room options, low keys or precious stones. This is in addition to the typical friction in the running “rogue” games that are on running, such as early options that have a later progress. But Roulette Planning the room is so firmly firmly design and theme of the game that he will not be the blue prince without him – as a feature, not a mistake, to build a strategy about it. After getting steam on the premature runs, I had to change my point of view to estimate small victories, even if I only reached a new room in one day.

Then there is the story, which is slowly unfolding with every room you discover – if you know where to search.

The story of the Blue Prince: a variable palace, a broken family

The game opens with the player, as Young Simon, in the entrance hall with a message from his dear grandfather, Herbert S. Snkir, who welcomes him in the challenge of discovering the secrets of the palace. But throughout the game, it becomes clear that there is more than the fun Grandsire Grandsire he offers – and more than the strange events surrounding the family, which Simon is one of the last remaining members.

As the developer also recommended the developer, I started writing down the notes in a material booklet (why not?), As well as a router to avoid large puzzles. I recorded everything and found it interesting, as each new room adds some letters, document, reference or mentioning various letters. A dramatic figure and their destiny appeared: Simon’s mother, the anger of Simon’s father, was angry at the House of Representatives. The scattered clues, like the investigator, remain examining a book from the Library of the Home or a teacher looking for an old textbook. You must mean Something.

It is not clear how many of these small notes I receive is important for a comprehensive story – I will freely recognize that, 17 hours away from the Blue Prince, I still have not completed it. I am close, but the mechanical difficulties and the lack of luck to align the rooms of the palace may keep me, just well, just one escape from the end (or near it). Meanwhile, I am still collecting the traditions of the house, as I jumped to open new rooms in the hope of revealing more about what happened to this house that was previously, and now just remained himself.

But even if I do not finish the game, it is still a pleasure to wander in its halls and ask about the number of secrets that lie inside. Each new room offers extracts from the story of the stories – the grave of the family, and the shelter of repercussions – and the more it gets, the more the layers (such as the puzzle that extends over the entire palace, which makes me wonder what I miss in the sight of the horizon).

The blue prince is not for everyone. Although most puzzles can be resolved in anything in the room, there are some complex solutions that can roam in ordinary players. Changing palace options and unpredictable room options can make progress not equal – or even create it if luck is not on your side. But to a large extent, it is one of the most unique games that you played for years, and a real treatment for hidden puzzles and mysterious fans.

Blue Prince is released on April 10 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox Game Pass and PC.