Panic Room: House of secrets

The mysterious mansion and hidden-object puzzles create a nice atmosphere at first, but the free-to-play progression gradually gets in the way. Repetition, waiting, and resource restrictions make uncovering the next secret feel more exhausting than mysterious.

great game .

love the story and the puzzles

fun

A tentative thumbs up.

This does the mobile slop thing of bombarding you with options, items, currencies, and of course the ever-present real-money payments... Along with the mandatory energy system, and increasingly oppressive blockades from the new content. All wrapped up in a massively confusing interface that makes it basically impossible to know how to progress.

If you ignore that; you have a pretty fun core hidden objects game. There are quite a few different stages, a bunch of different games modes, and a few little twists. I made it to almost 10 hours before every quest I had relied on either rolling the dice for rooms to reliably be set to the game mode I need to get through them in, rolling the dice for specific pickups from random points around the house, or paying money the bypass those dice rolls... So, 10 hours of pretty decent hidden-objecting for free, that's alright. Just stop when you don't have any free, easy way to progress; that's my plan, uninstalling now.

(And, hey, devs; the "night" mode massively slows down when the cursor is in the top-left corner, whatever method you're using to draw the cone of light is massively inefficient. Either fix that, or just remove the cone and just draw the circle of light.)