The Guides

I wanted to enjoy this, but eventually it gets too clever for its own good. If you’re prepared to put hours into thinking about the puzzles fine, but otherwise it can get frustrating very quickly. And there’s no reward ‘hit’ once you solve a problem - just straight on to the next one.

A truly unique game unlike any other which I will be repeatedly playing along with The Guides Axiom until the developer brings out the rest of the ongoing saga of The Guides games so that I can continue playing them for the rest of my Life - THAT’S how good they are!!! :D

I was really enjoying this, it’s very reminiscent of the classic online riddle games of 15+ years ago. Then, I found myself having to look up the answer for 2-5, and felt a bit cheated. As far as I can tell, there was no indication that that was what I had to do, although I forgave it as perhaps I should have noticed it, given the context of previous clues. Moving on to section 3, I found more of these situations, with a ton of red herrings thrown in for good measure (although I have given up on the game now, I don’t know if these will get referenced again somewhere down the line). The final step of 3-13, having looked up what I was supposed to do, was enough for me to lose all trust that solutions are adequately signposted. The answer requires a final transformational step which isn’t vaguely hinted at anywhere, and you couldn’t possibly know that that was what to do unless you spotted it by chance or had looked it up. The problem with this is that I believe to solve future puzzles, I’m reduced to just trying everything out until I stumble across something that works.

Well thought out, simple and complex puzzles with a sinister undertone/ story, which makes you intrigued to go further. lateral thinking is a must! To complete this one!, if I could give it six stars I would :) p.s have paper and pen ready :)!

I thought at last I have found a challenging game and gladly payed for it only to find that there is an issue with section 2 puzzle 7 which is preventing me from continuing, I have checked with various cheat sites to make sure I am not just stuck but there is definitely a problem. I have emailed the developers but had no response. Not happy!

...but not impossible! Enjoyed part 1 (so far).

Just great. Some are easy, some are hard. The lack of any instructions at all just adds to the challenge. Highly recommended.

Starts of well but then the puzzles have no logic to them and the clues may as well not be there. Also a couple of the puzzles had glitches so the answer could only be sought by looking it up; some of which also said they didn’t know why it was the answer either. Nice try and concept but only got up to 3.2 then quit.

Excellent game, enjoying the challenges.

Absolutely terrifying if you don’t have a logical techy brain (me). I couldn’t make head nor tail of it. I’m sure it’s great if you’re into that sort of thing though.