[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

Epic Games Store offers games for free every week. This week, the free game is...

Doors: Paradox

Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, and competitive scoring.

I played this game in the past and liked it. It may be not as stylish and elaborate as The Room series (another good example of escape puzzle games), but the charm of this game is in its design and level format: it is a series of small separate puzzles, each with its own theme and style. The game is small, and can probably be finished in a couple of evenings, but the level structure also makes it a good "coffee break" game.

Plus it's indie, and the "miniature statue" design is beautiful. @ChristianRasmussen with you fondness of miniatures, this may be of interest, or for @Saka and @SKYTRiXSHA as well, this game is very close to art. But it is still an escape game 😉

Anyone wants to open some doors?

[SKYTRiXSHA]

Need to test it out at some point, Epic is just giving too much games so I could try them all out :I

[DoctorEldritch]

@SKYTRiXSHA On the plus side, it's not like it's forcing you to play them at gunpoint 😅

I generally grab those games I find potentially interesting and then see if I have the time to play them. Not having a deadline helps. So no pressure!

That being said, I tried this one before and can personally recommend it. Some of the games EGS gives out that I have not tried I am not so sure about. But this one is decent, albeit short.

[Saka]

Oh, that's a nice style. I grabbed it to try it the famous One Day™.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka It is short and does not take up a lot of space, so I want to say it may be good to go in addition to what you're playing now, but for me, it was best to use it as a short mental exercise each evening with a couple of levels to solve before moving to something else like an RPG. But everyone has their own process. It is good that you managed to grab it while it's free.

And if you end up liking it, there is one more game like that which came out just yesterday called Boxes: Lost Fragments:

It's sort of a mix between Doors: Paradox and The Room.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch I did grab the freebie. It's just that I haven't had a whole lot of time to play lately. Kendo takes up many evenings and there are boring responsibilities to do outside of that as well. So somehow my game libraries keep getting larger and games played don't necessarily increase at the same pace. 😅

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka I hear you, finding time to play is too common a problem these days, I am afraid. But hey, at least you can rest easy knowing that you'll have no shortage of games to play when you retire 😉

That is, unless we all get enslaved by a rogue AI or something 😅

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Oh yes, there will be definitely no room for boredom during retirement at this rate! 😀

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Indeed, though I fear games today may be very outdated by then. But if you save your current device, you should be able to play them. This in particular is comfortably segmented and short to fit event the busy schedule, though, I think.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch It's possible backwards compatibility will improve over time. Currently we can easily play games from 2010, and playing 2000s games in 2010 was not necessarily going well due to issues with graphics API compatibility and other things that didn't carry over different Windows versions.