Picklock

Was looking for something cheap and cheerful, too bad this game has some of the oddest character movement possible. Want to go down a hallway? Sure. But what if we went the loop around way when you click that place across the hallway, because John Heister is retarded?

It's just alright for what it is, controls can sometimes feel clunky but over time you can learn to play around that. Overall okay game, I can see its appeal and it might cater to some, but it's just not for me.

The Negative reviews for this game are really harsh for no good reason i think. Don't listen to those naysayers lol this game is really good although, the NPC's are pretty honest to god... stupid lol you can just about walk right up on them and they won't bat an eye at you, in the dairy level for example you can steal the register right in front of the NPC without juggling the power box, the only reason to juggle the powerbox is to get 100% of all items in the level also, the dialogue has alot of lazy poor sloppy writing to it and the soundtrack is very flat, the gameplay for me at least was enjoyable but yeah the gameplay... pretty laughably easy Oh, and whatever you do DO NOT pay $20 for this game the 13 missions the game gives you can be completed in 1-2 hours and the game right now is 90% off so i would get it while it's $2 and not $20 which also seems very fair for the amount of time it takes to complete the 13 missions in the game.

Performance: I had to reduce the screen resolution to improve FPS, which is odd for such a small game with such graphics. The settings reset every time I restart the game, by the way.
Gameplay: The controls are rather clunky, but you get used to them. The mechanic of opening unlocked doors is annoying though. The forced entry detection is implemented very strangely. The progression is confusing – on the one hand, upgrades(?) are awarded as you complete missions in a linear fashion, but on the other hand, the character has tool skills(??) that level up with use??? I still don't understand what it is. Also there are no real upgrades to buy for money, only cosmetics.
Art style: Interesting, not bad. The mission in the clothing store is the best puzzle in the game, the mission in the bar is the worst.
Overall: 6/10

Don't buy this game. It is priced at $20 and takes about 2 hours to make it 100%. I played 8 out of 13 heists and my impressions would be positive if it was a game offered for a few dollars instead of 20 which is just an unfunny joke.

Zero replayability because you have to complete each heist exactly as the dev intended. There is only one right path because it requires timing between guard patrols. Can a guard or camera see you? Game over.

The main mechanics are:
- Guards walk along designated paths and stop in a place for X amount of time
- The cameras are there and you just have to turn them off in the right order
- The police can come, but they have brain damage and will stand in front of the building and walk right and then left, never going inside.

The game offers NOTHING apart from these three mechanics, each heist is simply an attempt to find the path desired by the developer and a combination of these three mechanics.

Perhaps a fourth mechanic appears in heists 9-13 but I had no intention of checking it.

Edit: A few months ago the game was valued at $8 instead of $20 ($24.65 in my local currency, so people from Poland are even more screwed). The developers increased the price 2.5 times when the initial price was already too high.