Posted on May 28, 2025
Royally Bland shitter!
From our bucket brigadier ILikeSocks, an aristocratic shitter from Blue Prince! “A game that I was hoping would scratch my Outer Wilds / Obra Dinn mystery and deduction itch but which ultimately I uninstalled about 2 hours later. I didn’t see any reason to go into the bathroom. You play as some guy whose dead relative left him a 45-room estate, and in the will he tasks you to find the missing 46th room. You have a set number of steps you can take (it goes down by one when you enter a room) and when you run out of steps or hit all dead ends you “call it a day” and come back the next day. Which sounds cool and right up my alley, except when you go to open a door you get three random rooms you can choose from then you “draw” that room into the floor plan so the house is always different which kills all excitement for me. If the house was a set layout full of the puzzles, and you had to explore and clue your way around to find the 46th room and solve the mysteries it would slap. But the random element just completely kills all excitement I have for it, especially because you can get a few runs that end with you seeing nothing new.
Also I still dont know what the actual mystery is. In Outer Wilds, it took me like a solid hour and a half before I realized the fucking sun was exploding and resetting the world but here I’m just wandering around an estate. I did find a surveillance room that gave off sinister vibes with how much it focused on the monitors watching other rooms. But that’s not enough to get me interested.”
In spite of all that, the Blue Prince’s shitter (who is likely a valet or footmen on this estate) is a Lavatory Rank 3 and with a discreetly attentive aura is ready to handle all your needs with tact and grace!