Blue Prince was sold to me as Myst meets a rouge-lite. Who exactly sold it to me that way, I can’t recall. I just started seeing a bunch of media talking about it, and shortly after that started watching some Youtubers play it before I decided I needed to experience it for myself.

That all said, I’m not really huge into Myst. I’ve never beaten it. In fact I’ve never even got very far into it. Partly due to it coming out when I was too young to understand how to figure out the puzzles, but also because I was scared away from playing it (Long story short, don’t play atmospheric games with your friend at a sleepover at 2 am)

On paper though I’ve always liked the idea of Myst and having an interest in plenty of rogue-lite games, it definitely sounded like something I needed to check out.

I will admit that I didn’t solve many (if any at all) puzzles. A big part of that was watching Northernlion play a good chunk of the game, although once he stopped his playthrough (to move onto other games) I wound up using internet help. Most of my enjoyment came from the rogue-lite parts.

I know there’s probably some people who would frown at that, but I still enjoyed the game. I think it’s a masterpiece. Well at least up until you reached room 46. The stuff you can do after that starts to plummet in enjoyability to a more “normal game” level. Not bad, but it gets to the point where I started to feel like what I was doing was not working towards a resolution of the main mystery that becomes clear to you over the course of playing.

It didn’t stop me from doing all there was to do, and it wont probably stop me from picking it up again if new content was introduced. Though for most others I would recommend just focusing on the getting to room 46 and calling it there