Hourglass Escapes: Tales of the Ghostly Galleon

Some fun, different puzzles. Enjoyed the character of the avatar, and there were lots of different style puzzles which kept all of our team involved.

Well themed game with lots and lots of all things pirate! The game uses telescape and uses it well as there are a number of puzzles that you can interact with in the inventory and the avatar works well with the ghostly theme (even if his skeleton hands are useless for opening locks!). The puzzles flow well and are well signposted and the avatar is a master at subliminally clueing you to what you missed with some very classy and subtle camera work. Not quite as much to do as there is in Evil Dead, but I found it just as enjoyable, its an excellent room.

Very nice set, and a good avatar who actually donned very cool skeleton gloves to add to the atmosphere!  Mostly straightforward puzzles with a good integration to the theme.  Unfortunately the key puzzle upon which the "escape" rests was made much more onerous by a rather clunky approach to solving it.  I can't say much more without providing spoilers but...don't bother with the chart!  It doesn't have to be that hard.