I grew up on these kind of mystery games. Room 1, 2, 3 and old sins. Machinika museum and atlas. And of course the house of da Vinci trilogy. The puzzles are great and always fun to play around with. Also loved the historical aspect. This game matches that criteria and I LOVE it.There’s only one big problem and this could be because I’m on iPhone twelve but the character models for Tesla Twain and the other characters in the memory scenes are very low quality compared to your characters from house of davinci. No problem with them being static and not animated just could use a LOT more detail. Other than that though great game! I’m looking forward to more games from you guys in the future.

I’m a big fan of the DaVinci games. So I was counting down the days for this release, but in its current state it’s difficult to play. The sensitivity/hit box for the touch actions are pretty bad. They mostly don’t work at all with the Apple Pencil, and are still very bad even using a finger (I’m on an iPad Pro). This would be somewhat tolerable and something I could kind of overlook except the interactions are very important to the puzzles. If you click something several times and there’s no action, you assume it’s not the correct solution. Not that there’s an interaction issue with the interface. For example, I’m outside of what looks like an office right now early in the game and there’s a circle of lights where you have to follow a pattern to unlock the door. I know the lights are supposed to be clickable bc the solution is obvious, but I’m having to click each light at least 2 to 3 times to get them to register the interaction. I will update my review if they fix the issue, but in its current state it’s very difficult to play.

I think the peak of the games was Da Vinci 2. Solid puzzles, beautiful graphics, and great animations and story. Just brilliant. It was charming and engaging and balanced. Da Vinci 3 was just a tiny bit less great but still a very solid showing. Da Vinci was a rooms copy; fine enough but less refined with copy cat features.I have wanted harder puzzles from these types of games. Something that really makes you work to solve it. An “aha moment”. This game misses the mark and I think I know why.It wanted to be the most beautiful graphics maybe the best of the genre (they are fantastic); but it really lost sight of the main driver- great puzzles with great intuitive controls. I don’t like the multiple choices and the still frame animations. The dialogue is so much weaker than Da Vinci it actually feels like a whole new game staff.Porting backwards to phones hurt the design IMO. So many controls are hard to manage and as others have stated the puzzles aren’t hard just tedious. Finally i reported this but the audio bug; no sound works on the phone so i played the whole game in silence. Also i did not get credit for finding all the documents in the game. Also a bug.All is not lost; Tesla 2 should come out in a couple years and absolutely reclaim the title. Final thought. I like the idea of alternative endings and finding them all but The Room 3 did this the best so far. Actual changes to the outcome; not responses that did basically nothing to change the game history. My let down from fireproof was they never followed up with a world maze they showed in that last cut scene. A labyrinth is the best idea for a puzzle game like these… just saying.

Puzzles were generally OK, but all too often, I understood WHAT the solution the game was looking but difficult to understand HOW to get there - and vice versa. Manipulating items in inventory was too difficult on a touch screen when, for example you needed to hold down one part while trying to expand or unfold another. Also, many times I did not know what to do - I understood the controls and kept engaging with them to recognize a pattern and suddenly the solution was there … I don’t know what I did to get there. All in all a great game in the DaVinci model.