However, despite the puzzles being on the ‘easy side’ in most instances, each level will easily take you around 30-45 minutes to complete depending on if you wish to look for the collectables and how fast you can solve the puzzles.

When you name your game “ The Pillar: Puzzle Escape” there’s two images that appear within your head Pillars and Puzzles – thankfully this game has both in abundance! Your objective in each of the levels is to simply activate and solve the puzzles on the pillars, which are hidden underground, and collect all of the pieces of a torn-up photograph (optional). Let’s look into it a bit deeper…Ī familiar puzzle to all Artifex Mundi fans! So, there is a target audience out there for the game, but it may not be for the die-hard puzzle enthusiasts. But, saying that, I let my mother play the game and she loved it as it wasn’t too hard nor too easy for her (she loves the Artifex Mundi games for the same reason). There are four main variants of the colour puzzles, each one is different and they do progressively get harder (especially the memory game), but I really wanted a few more twists on the mechanics, more environmental puzzles, and a more difficult experience. After completing the game and obtaining the platinum (which you only have to complete half the game in order to achieve!), I came away having enjoyed my time yet feeling a little disappointed with the diversity of the puzzles on offer. The game spans eight levels, each with a number of colour-based puzzles, hidden photos, and some environmental puzzles to solve and find. There is no story within the game, it’s described as an ‘arcade puzzle and room escape game’ on the developer’s website, a description I can’t argue with. VR games are known to sacrifice texture detail in order to run smoothly, but with this game having simplistic textures and assets, it would have made a brilliant and very immersive relaxing PSVR title.Įastasiasoft helped out with the console port, so that may be why it remained flat, but you never know – they did add in a feature within 48 hours of me requesting it the other day…

My first question, when I started the game for the first time was, “why isn’t this game in VR?”. The Pillar: Puzzle Escape was developed by Paper Bunker, a developer who has created games on PC, Mobile and VR. The Pillar: Puzzle Escape is a puzzle game that also has one puzzle mechanic, but does it provide enough variations to keep things fresh? Sometimes it’s nice to see a game offer many puzzles within the gameplay that are all unique and vary in their delivery, yet it’s just as interesting to see how games can take a single idea and still keep you entertained and invested – Like Relicta with its magnets and The Sojourn with its statues. I’m a fan of puzzles, whether they’re woven into the game as we see with every Artifex Mundi title, or used as the core gameplay mechanic as presented within Neverout.

The pillar puzzle escape