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Hang on, maybe I can play the game in single-player.

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Oh, okay. Apparently, the error is because of a corrupted character file. Let me just delete it and make a new character.

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In its current state, I cannot recommend this game.

My biggest gripe is that it runs poorly. For reference, I have a GeForce 1660 Ti, a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, and 16 GB of DDR4 3200 memory. You would think that a machine made to run ARK: Survival Evolved on high settings (with little-to-no stutter) would mean the game is playable without lagging directly into a horde of bugs. But such are the perils of Early Access games where the recommended system requirements are a bald-faced lie.

I have other complaints, but they're all my fault, and I wouldn't give this game a fair shake if I added them to this review.

Actually, I should at least touch on the tutorial. All it does is teach you how the building mechanic works, and you're done in five minutes. It doesn't cover the finer points of how you should apply that knowledge (which would help new players understand what's happening half the time during a multiplayer session). If the developers even wanted to, they could make a short campaign game into the tutorial, where you can play with bot players and understand how each game mode is supposed to play out. But I've heard that programming trooper AI isn't in the cards, along with other things that would guarantee the game's longevity (community servers being the most notable example).

All in all, this game's launch into Early Access is like the battle of Klendathu: high hopes for success, an utter disappointment, and a mess that needs to be cleaned up sooner than later.

I love the juxtaposition of cute visuals and story/gameplay elements that would creep out my ultra-conservative aunt. If you don't have one of those kinds of family members and don't feel the same way, you're probably lying.

On a more serious note, juxtapositions seem to be this game's main theme and overall appeal. Creepy and cute; action and casual gameplay; and so on.

It starts off charming enough, but the difficulty of the puzzles scale at an uneven rate. Some puzzles are easier than the game indicates, others are harder than the game indicates. Oh, and if you were hoping to be a perfectionist and want to get A+ on all of the puzzles, don't bother using hints. If you take too long on a puzzle, just quit out of it and try again.

And speaking of the grades this game offers, have you ever played Puzzle Agent? Have you ever needed to use hints or even submitted the wrong answer to a puzzle in that game? Ever notice how even if you do the puzzle over again, you can't improve your grade? Yeah, this game operates on the same logic. This aspect of Escape Academy is what made me not want to recommend the game to anyone. Unless, of course, you enjoy playing Puzzle Agent 1 & 2. In which case, I bet you also see the appeal of eating slices of Wonder Bread as a main course and saltine crackers as a snack. More power to you either way. This part has allegedly been fixed in a very recent (as of this edit) quality of life update which makes replayable levels track the best grade you've gotten. Whether or not this affects the Honor Roll and Overachiever achievements has yet to be seen.

All in all, you have a game that has uneven difficulty, a lackluster ending, and is too short of a game to justify paying $20 for it, let alone the additional $15 you would have to spend to invest in a season pass. Most people would say to wait for this game to be on sale instead of paying the game for full price, but after playing through all of it, this feels more like a demo instead of a fully-fledged game.

This game feels almost too similar to Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The difference, however, is that there's a version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe called OpenTTD. It's free, compatible with modern hardware, and more feature-complete. So if you want to play this game, try out OpenTTD first to see if it's your kind of game.

A game that's now three years old and there are still bugs that should've been fixed by now. Also, this game really likes rearranging guard/NPC placement whenever you load a game. This results in inconsistency in your gameplay, which isn't fun. Knocking people out is also a gamble in the early game, because 9/10 times, you'll just trigger a fight, need to load an old save, and the aforementioned rearranging happens.

Oh, did I mention that stealth is a complete punch in the balls as well? Is it realistic? Sure. Is it fun? No. What's the point in playing this game? Sadomasochism. Avoid this game otherwise, even if it's on sale (which is when I got this game).

This feels less like a $10 game and more like a $2 DLC for the first Orwell. Even then, with how the game only lasted less than four hours, I still feel like this game would be overpriced.

Don't let the Youtube videos fool you; you aren't going to get WWCD within your first three matches, even if you play with friends. You're only going to either be shot in the back by opportunists in solo or simply be the first to be picked off out of your group, only for the rest of them to fall prey to either an inability to hear call-outs or bad plans that, while they may sound good in their head, will only lead you to be picked off by a single guy and his buddy like the game is nothing more than a fishing simulator.

If you have an AMD Processor, you're basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Forget everything you know about Skyrim. Forget everything you know about Oblivion. This is Morrowind now. And if anything, playing this game is as close as you'll get to real life. No fast-travel, all your quest objectives are logged in a journal instead of being pointed out by a marker, and sometimes, you're really really bad at stabbing someone in the face with a rusty dagger.