Waterfall Prisoner
Genres: Puzzle, Escape Room, Mystery, Point & Click, Atmospheric, Adventure
Release Date: 1-9-2023
Developer: APA estudi
Our verdict
7.5/10
- Difficulty: Medium
- Players: 1
- Playtime: 4–8 h
Waterfall Prisoner is a compact first-person puzzle adventure modelled on classic graphic adventures. You wake in a damp cell at the bottom of Waterfall Tower and climb your way out, helped by hints left by a prisoner who came before you. Strange mechanisms, items to combine and the tower's odd inhabitants fill the route, and finishing the game unlocks an epilogue with a garden of new puzzles. It suits solo players who enjoy old-school, note-heavy puzzle design.
Reception is strong: 43 of 45 Steam reviews are positive. Tags point to point-and-click, logic and investigation. The one written review calls it a solid trip through a puzzle-packed tower and warns that you will take many screenshots and read many notes.
The same reviewer felt some epilogue puzzles, such as the candles puzzle, needed more polish, and suggests buying on sale. Written feedback is thin, so pacing and overall difficulty are hard to pin down. Recommended for players who like keeping notes and solving at their own pace.
Pros
- Tower climb with a predecessor's hints to follow
- Item and mechanism puzzles in classic adventure style
- Bonus epilogue unlocks after the ending
Cons
- Some epilogue puzzles feel underdeveloped
- Heavy note-taking and screenshotting required
About
You awaken in a damp cell, located in the deepest basement of the mysterious Waterfall Tower.
In making your way out, you discover you weren't the first in this predicament, someone preceded you - and they left behind hints that might help you abscond before the night is over.
A compact videogame experience that aims to evoke the classic, puzzle-centered adventure games of the past.
RIDDLES AND CONTRAPTIONS
Solve a variety of puzzles and interact with the strange mechanisms that stand before you and the tower's exit.
THE KEY TO EGRESS
Discover and utilize a diverse set of items, essential in enabling your escape.
THE SECRETS OF WATERFALL TOWER
Exploring the tower and learning about the quirks of its strange inhabitants will be paramount to making progress.
GARDEN OF SECRETS
New mysteries await after completing the game and unlocking the Epilogue. The adventure continues!
