The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor is a exploration, puzzle and escape room game
developed and published by MediaCity Games.
Released on May 05th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 705 reviews of which 626 were positive and 79 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 2.99ā¬ on Steam and has a 80% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 Sp1
- Processor: IntelĀ® Coreā¢ i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FXā¢-6300 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIAĀ® GeForceĀ® GTX 760 or AMD Radeonā¢ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectSound
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+ classic big mansion with lots of secrets and hidden rooms + decent puzzles + not groundbreaking but decent story + good atmosphere + non-linear gameplay +/- I wouldn't call it a horror, and for me personally that's a good thing +/- grammar is bad sometimes, typos here and there, but nothing that prevented the progression of the plot - too many "guess the sequence by trial and error" puzzles - a bugged puzzle in the drawing room - camera is REALLY janky and turns you in the wrong direction sometimes, especially if you're running - not the most native controls, especially for messing with puzzle elements. probably the game was made for controller use? (- Russian translation is listed in the settings but is unreadable from the very start so I had to switch to English) all in all i'd give it about 6.5/10. don't bother buying it if you're not into the "room escape" typa games. but for those who love the puzzle solving genre it can be a nice way to spend a couple of hours
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Ambient, easy-on-the-eyes solo puzzle adventure. Heavier on the atmosphere, lighter on the challenge, this still turned out to be a pleasant, relaxing ride. Inheritance matters are usually a lot more stressful to navigateā¦ Without wasting too much time on such frivolities as set-up or backstory, the game dropped me off straight at the foyer of an enormous posh mansion, with a note that my now former employer (unexpectedly dead with the rest of the family presumed to be deceased as well) trusts me to sort out a matter of his will. Iām all for slightly sinister in-medias-res scenarios, so I flexed my fingers and reached for obligatory broken doorknob, conveniently placed in the drawer nearbyā¦ Let me in, coach! I know what Iām in for. Firstly, a suddenly disturbing developments I had no idea my boss was a part of (the game dutifully warned me that I might not like what I discover); and secondly ā a perplexing mandatory insistence on wanting something to be resolved and yet making sure that a person working on it would have the hardest time getting to a solution. After all, if youād just place a will in the safe with a code to use post-mortem, there would be no game. But if you bring in an unsuspecting assistant and then blast him with all kinds of codes and puzzles you worked on for years - to prevent him from getting easily what you want him to get ā¦ Now youāve got yourself a game, logic be damned. I donāt necessarily mind this approach because, letās face it, a large portion of fiction in any medium wouldnāt exist if people were to be too nitpicky about common sense, but also because I was here for the puzzle and surrounding atmosphere more so than for the story. The scenario I found myself in here is extremely popular in solo exploration puzzles/ escape room games, so as long as it had a modicum of originality (it did), and as long as it brought on whatever ambience the developer was gunning for, I was good to go. As far as that ambienceā¦ I liked it, I liked it quite a lot. In a world full of empty mansions to explore, itās practically impossible to stand out, so the task is not to turn everything upside down chasing new horizons, but rather go for a truly immersive experience. The Crimson Manor is vast, absolutely gorgeous, beautifully lit, and lets you slowly peruse locations picking up and marveling at the things from the times long gone (most of the photos have time stamps of late 1800s). You can explore at your own pace, seeing as little or as much as you want. With sound effects (along with some unobtrusive tracks, and a few bits of classical music you find as part of the tasks) and snippets of potentially menacing story, itās a good time all around, and made going from puzzle to puzzle truly satisfying. Speaking of the devil. Puzzles here are largely logical, have a solid thread going between them (so you are almost never at a loss of what to do), fit well within the world of the manor, quite fun and not all that challenging. The game does have a strange love for a type of puzzle where you must click several things in particular order to open something (Iāve come across at least four variations of that one), but overall ā itās the best balance of ānot-too-hardā and āooh-I-want-to-see-whatās-nextā parts. You wonāt get bored with a variety of click-y lock mechanisms and codes that youād need a special device to get a glimpse of, but you also wonāt break your brain thinking over something for days. Depends on what youāre after. Iāve been away from playing games for quite a while, so I enjoyed this well-paced journey very much. āThe Inheritance of Crimson Manorā surprisingly ended up being quite a little gem of an exploration puzzler. āSurprisinglyā because the game isnāt breaking any molds as far as the story, the setting, or even the puzzles are concerned. And yet, whatever predictable path it takes, it does it well. It has detailed, lovely location to explore, moody atmosphere with a Gothic flair you can take in at your own pace, addicting (due to the not-too-hard/not-too-easy combo) puzzle component and a solid dose of immersion that even falling through the map (yup, happened to me) didnāt really ruin. If you know what exactly it is you want from puzzle games ā this one should be relatively easy to pass up or pick up. Itās no Myst, thatās for sure, but it is an entertaining experience (although, turns out inheritance is a quite a hustle to deal with after all. Hundreds of locks and allā¦), so if it sounds up your alley ā let yourself in. Just donāt forget the doorknob.
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A decent little walkabout puzzle game. There was a fair amount of going back and forth between rooms which started to feel a little tedious, but the game isn't long enough for it to really become an issue. The map icons helped keep track of what puzzles were still active. My only complaint is the hint function doesn't really give hints, it just tells you what to do to solve the next puzzle in line to complete your objective.
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A pretty solid mystery game filled with puzzles. I really enjoyed how you pieced together the story with all the little papers (newspapers, medical reports, notes from Mr. Strange himself, letters etc. etc.). You can sometimes feel a bit lost and the hints are often just a straight up answer instead of some advice, like I want to be advised/helped and not told the whole answer. But yeah, overall solid game!
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I really enjoyed this game. The style of the game took me back to an all-time favourite (Myst), and I felt very comfortable with the gameplay. I did not feel very comfortable going down into that basement when I unlocked it. Whilst I was sure I was alone in that big mansion, hearing doors open and close in the background was a nice touch to the atmosphere. And the build-up of going into an eccentric millionaire's basement was real. it was scary! I will also admit I got lost many times in the mansion....which again added to the atmosphere. thoroughly enjoyable game.
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Online players
6
Developer
MediaCity Games
Publisher
MediaCity Games
Release
05 May 2022
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