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Solid, well paced, self-contained, April 8, 2022My first impression of this piece matches the one I have at the end: solid, intriguing and with a very good rhythm troughout. It can be framed within the "escape" genre (the player is a member of the crew of a damaged space station from which it must escape) but that is also underselling it by a bit. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Durafen, November 16, 2020 5 of
5 people found the following review helpful:
Space Station Escape, October 19, 2020This, ladies and gentlemen, is good work! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- bradleyswissman (Virginia, US), September 30, 2020 - IanAllenBird, August 2, 2020 4 of
4 people found the following review helpful:
Satisfyingly not-too-hard escape room, July 19, 2020by ChrisM (Cambridge, UK) A solid escape room game with puzzles that are just about the right level of hardness if you want something to think about...but not too hard. I did it in about 45 mins with a full score and didn't need any hints along the way (but they are there if you need them). The story isn't hugely germane to the gameplay but nevertheless, it is there and the revealing of it in snippets and flashbacks as you progress through the game is quite effective. The writing is good and does what it needs to do in relaying tension and a feeling of impending peril, with a minimum of flashing lights and blaring sirens. Give it a go, get through to the end and be reassured that you will know exactly what to do the next time you find yourself in a fix in low Earth orbit. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Walter Sandsquish, February 21, 2020 - airylef, August 6, 2018 - play_all_day, June 21, 2018 - Jan Strach, April 20, 2018 - Marco Innocenti (Florence, Italy), September 19, 2017 - Simon Deimel (Germany), July 3, 2017 - Cory Roush (Ohio), June 28, 2017 - Sobol (Russia), July 26, 2016 - verityvirtue (London), May 24, 2016 3 of
3 people found the following review helpful:
An enjoyable shortish escape game in space, February 3, 2016by MathBrush Stephen Granade is the author of Losing Your Grip, one of my favorite games. So I was excited to try this one. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (1) - Add comment
- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), April 23, 2015 Amazing, March 7, 2015 Smart, well written, and made me feel as if I was really there. Truly a wonderful gem in a sea of fish. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Jason McIntosh (Boston), June 20, 2014 - DJ (Olalla, Washington), October 7, 2013 - Ann R. J., April 26, 2013 - Edward Lacey (Oxford, England), March 23, 2013 - AADA7A, September 22, 2012 - JasonMel (Florida), March 7, 2012 - Geico1700, February 27, 2012 2 of
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A solid, short, scifi "escape game", February 21, 2012by Janos Honkonen (Helsinki, Finland) Fragile Shells falls to the category of "escape games", where the aim is to get out of a single room or a small space by using the items that are available around the player. The locale and the backstory for this is rather more interesting than in many similar games: a half of a module from a space station, spinning out of control. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- loungeman (Bilbao, Spain), January 7, 2012 - amciek (Opole), December 28, 2011 - Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), July 27, 2011 - WaterMonkey314, July 2, 2011 1 of
18 people found the following review helpful:
Disappointing, June 5, 2011by AmberShards (The Gothic South) Yet again, I'm underwhelmed by games everyone else loves -- not so much for the technical aspects, but for the content. That's precisely the joy of this game: facile and mindless "peace" sentiments coupled with some arguably anti-American stereotypes. (Spoiler - click to show)Herein, the UK has a space program, and America decides to attack one of their outposts. Yes, yes. It's more of the same thing we see every day. I guess nothing much has changed in the future! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (4) - Add comment
- Ben Cressey (Seattle, WA), March 1, 2011 12 of
13 people found the following review helpful:
Solid escape game, February 25, 2011by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands) Fragile Shells was written as an escape-the-more-or-less-one-room game. It embraces all the conventions of the genre: play consists of solving item manipulation puzzles, there are no NPCs, all the story is told through flashbacks rather than actions of the PC. It is a tired old genre, and Fragile Shells does nothing to rejuvenate it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Kake (London, England), December 3, 2010 - Johnny, November 17, 2010 - Nusco (Bologna, Italy), September 2, 2010 - Dave Chapeskie (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), August 4, 2010 - Rose (New Zealand), July 15, 2010 - karcher, July 11, 2010 - Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), May 8, 2010 - Patrick M. McCormick (United States), May 8, 2010 14 of
14 people found the following review helpful:
Escape-the-Room artists: this is your dream come true, April 10, 2010Somewhere out there is a Platonic Ideal of the "Escape the Room" game genre. In my opinion, FRAGILE SHELLS comes remarkably close. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Carlo, March 23, 2010 - Squidi, March 7, 2010 - perching path (near Philadelphia, PA, US), March 7, 2010 - Emily Short, February 25, 2010 - VK, February 24, 2010
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