Death of online escape games?
After several years of enjoying games in a lively online community, one where people sometimes even chatted off-topic with each other about local weather and life-events, and helped each other solve the game puzzles, Escape Games 24 seems to be dying a long, lingering death of it's own.
After a series of attacks about people "spoiling" the games by posting hints and answers, there are now very few posts. Instead of hints and walkthroughs (labors of love written by the community) that could be text-searched , we are left with video walkthroughs that are tedious to watch and sometimes don't even explain how the solution was arrived at. The site eventually came up with an upside down text hinting method, but it was too late.
The games themselves have deteriorated into cartoons, with mostly predictable puzzles. With the upcoming disappearance of Flash Games, many of the makers of excellent quality games have given up. Sometimes the games won't load at all. Some of the most inventive games were from Japanese game makers, and none of these ever get posted anymore.
Fortunately I saw an announcement in early 2019 about Tesshi-e discontinuing her/his website. I was able to go back and play (or replay) most of the games before they disappeared forever. (If you want to see what a truly beautiful game can look like, there are still you-tube videos).
Amajeto even started making games with a different tool, and used to come out with a game roughly once a month, but their last game, Amajeto 2020, released after Christmas 2019 appears to have been a swan song. 😢
As for the old community, about the only time I see them post is when small-tool releases one of his riddle games. Unfortunately, I'm really terrible at these puzzles, rarely getting to even level 10 of 50+.
Fortunately I saw an announcement in early 2019 about Tesshi-e discontinuing her/his website. I was able to go back and play (or replay) most of the games before they disappeared forever. (If you want to see what a truly beautiful game can look like, there are still you-tube videos).
Amajeto even started making games with a different tool, and used to come out with a game roughly once a month, but their last game, Amajeto 2020, released after Christmas 2019 appears to have been a swan song. 😢
As for the old community, about the only time I see them post is when small-tool releases one of his riddle games. Unfortunately, I'm really terrible at these puzzles, rarely getting to even level 10 of 50+.
