Lakes Escapes: Casino Heist

Excellent value for money, lots of twists and turns, took us ages but we enjoyed it. 

Very clunky and unresponsive user interface. The puzzles were pretty good and the overall story is also very well made, so nothing wrong there. The only (and very serious) problem through the whole game was that it takes a loads of time to try and hit the cursor to a right spot (sometimes everything works, sometimes not and there seemed not to be any logic when/why this happened, but it happened a plenty of times), so that's why our team feels this as a poor and frustrating one.

Really great

I was stuck at the table (one of the first puzzles) for at least 40 minutes but after that I had a fairly smooth ride. The game had some flaws but overall it was enjoyable.

Extremely clunky interface.  Unclickable areas, confusing hint system. One of the poorer Telescape adaptations my team had played.

I'd heard good things about the in-person version of this game but, if that's the case, I can only conclude that sadly it does not transition well to being online, because this was just confusing and frustrating...  felt a bit like a point-and-click adventure that had been made during a 12hr game jam - the potential was there, but the user interface was awful, large parts felt unfinished (hotspots didn't work, graphics were low resolution and you could clearly see the camera in reflections in objects in the game etc.) and ultimately it just wasn't fun to play.

A little slow but amazing 🤩