Blue Prince
Genres: Puzzle, Escape Room, Mystery, Story Rich, Atmospheric, Adventure
Play modes: singleplayer
Release Date: 10-4-2025
Developer: Dogubomb
Our verdict
8/10
- Difficulty: Hard
- Players: 1
- Playtime: 20+ h
Blue Prince from Dogubomb is a first-person puzzle adventure set in Mt. Holly, a manor whose layout you draft yourself. Each time you open a door, you choose from a handful of rooms to place behind it, and the whole house resets at the end of every in-game day while you hunt for the rumoured Room 46. It suits patient puzzle fans who enjoy note-taking, Myst-style mysteries and roguelite runs.
Players rate it Very Positive, with about 86 percent of over 16,000 reviews recommending it. Fans describe a puzzle rabbit hole that keeps opening up long after the credits, with notebooks full of scribbles and dozens of hours spent on layered secrets about the family's past. Several play it as a couple, one person taking notes.
The recurring complaints are about the dice. Many reviewers say the random room draws block them from testing ideas they have already worked out, and some found the late game leans on big leaps of logic. Runs can last an hour with no mid-run saving, and some report crashes that wipe a run. Buy it if you want a deep, slow-burn puzzle game and can live with randomness; skip it if you want a linear Myst-like where only your reasoning matters.
Pros
- Room-drafting manor that reshuffles every day
- Layer after layer of puzzles well beyond the first credits
- Detailed family mystery told through notes and rooms
Cons
- Random room draws can block progress on solved ideas
- No mid-run saves, and runs often last an hour
- Late-game puzzles demand big leaps of logic
About
Welcome to Mt. Holly, the mysterious manor with shifting rooms. In Blue Prince, you embark on a genre-defying experience, filled with a unique mix of mystery, strategy, and puzzles that weave together to create an unpredictable journey. Will your explorative steps lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Upon reaching a closed door in Mt. Holly, you decide what room appears behind it and each decision shapes your path as you navigate through the manor. Every door can reveal new and exciting chambers that contain their own unique challenges and secrets. But be careful how you draft, for each day the manor’s floor plan resets and the rooms you saw today may not be the same rooms you see tomorrow.
Your progress each day is shaped by the rooms you select to draft and the tools you find within them. Items in the game can be used in a number of creative ways to fuel your exploration deeper into the house, allowing you to adopt unique strategies to combat the challenges that each day brings. Yet, tread wisely – the house resets each dawn, erasing all but the permanent upgrades to your estate blueprint. That is, if you were clever enough to find one!
As the heir of Mt. Holly, you have been tasked to explore its shifting halls in search of Room 46. Yet as your journey takes you further into the mansion’s depths, you start to discover that there is more lurking under the surface than a missing room. Investigate a past woven with the threads of blackmail, political intrigue, and the mysterious disappearance of a local children’s book author. The deeper you venture, the more you realize that the past is closer than it appears.
