Virtual Escaping

The game systems used by this company are not very good, it is very hard to see what you can and cannot click on. 

As with the other games, the interface is sound and we've not had an issue with the mechanics of either logging on or glitches. Inventory is easy to use and everything is intuitive with game play allowing individual exploration/investigation.

Difficult to rate this one - we went from liking some of the puzzles to really disliking some of them - it's a very hit and miss game with some odd rationale behind the dislike e.g.  we may have missed something and had to force solve one of the puzzles  also (potential spoiler) why give you a tension bar for the lockpick and then not require it being used, why use different sound effects on the same thing if it doesn't mean anything.  

However, some of it was novel and one of the puzzles we actively liked as we hadn't seen it before and it needed us to talk it out to get to the solution.

Definitely on the tricky side and requires a leap of faith for some of the solutions, but not actively disliked.

This played fine - although darker on a windows screen (even at maximum brightness) than on a mac which meant that one of us was at a disadvantage as there were quite a lot of dark details that required at least some visibility.

Some pixel hunting that was challenging on laptops, but other than that, the game played well and had no bugs. All the puzzles were fair, themed and tied together well and the hints were targeted to the correct stage in the game as you would expect. 

Hasn't put us off playing others by the group, but would probably go for less "atmospheric" (deliberately dark) storylines.