Welcome to Puzzle Land

A puzzle / games storygame by 325boy

Player Rating3.32/8

"Too few ratings to be ranked"

Based on 23 ratings since 08/24/2020
Played 510 times (finished 32)

Story Difficulty6/8

"Wandering through the desert"

Play Length5/8

"Not going to lose any sleep"

Maturity Level4/8

"Need to be accompanied by an adult"

Contains content that may not be suitable for persons under age 13. If this were a movie, it would probably be PG.

Tags

Fantasy

Puzzle

This storygame is the product of 9 months on and off for roughly 20 minutes a day (including a 4 month hiatus). 372 pages, 1038 links, 24421 words, 27 items, 43 variables... don't expect storygames this large from me again.

While testing this storygame, I found a MASSIVE bug. In this game, there a four pages that each tell you a digit of a code, and the page that told you the second digit said the wrong digit... fixed now. Now for the real description.

You wake in a mysterious land full of strange puzzles. It seems the only way home is by venturing around and solving them.

You must roam around the map, collecting items to unlock the way home. There are 36 areas, each marked with a letter A-F, and a number 1-6. Every area must be visited at least once to win (at least using the intended route...). Good luck!

I hate storygames that you can't rate if you don't get the good ending as much as you do, so there is an "End Game" link at C2. South Cave in case you want to give up.

You have 3 lives.

Score = 2000 - the number of links you click on. If this goes below zero, you lose.

Score 0: Out of lives.

Score -1: Out of time.

Score -2: Gave up (see above).

Author's best score: 1923. You will not get this score on your first playthrough as it requires knowing a code and exactly what items are needed and where to find them.

Player Comments

That was fun! It was hard as hell though and yeah

— RKrallonor on 9/19/2024 9:21:48 AM with a score of 1290

This was a tough puzzle game but rewarding once items were earned. I could not escape Puzzle Land since I found it difficult to win more coins and guess the combination lock. This has potential for a sequel. Or next time more character development, story, and hints would be appreciated!

— itzmonibaby on 9/27/2023 4:04:17 PM with a score of 665

The puzzles are well-designed but time-consuming. It wasn't the puzzles themselves that frustrated me but the overabundance of them. If this had been stretched out into a series then it would've been challenging enough to keep my attention.

As it stands, I beat the game but it has been so long ago I don't remember how I did it. The story was um, average. The story could have had a stronger narrative to incentivize new players. That's about it.

— Axxius on 4/30/2023 6:11:54 PM with a score of 1996

Wow! We can see the time and effort the author put in this puzzle game. It was pretty challenging.
The only problem I have with this is the story itself, which is practically non-existent. perhaps some background could draw readers in, and make them more tempted to solve the puzzles, further achieving your goal. Anyway, nicely done!

— PerforatedPenguin on 11/19/2020 9:24:22 AM with a score of 1875

There was no story to speak off, but I like puzzles. However, here the puzzles seemed arbitrary. I kept asking myself why should I even do this. Also I tried to use the map on the first page and it did not work. Basically I felt stranded with no idea where I want to go and what I want to go. Oh wait... I was told I had to find 36 things, but in my character brain I was wondering where that information came from or why I would even want to find 36 things. Perhaps just puzzles without story can work for enthusiasts, but then I don't want to have to chase them on a map. Also I would have liked if some more effort had gone into the puzzles. For instance at "You see some flowers (long explanation)" a picture would have made engaging with this much more attractive. Maybe on the next one go for quality instead of quantity.

— Northwind on 9/5/2020 3:53:45 AM with a score of 1886

I was tempted to give you a 1. But the fact that you added a way to get out of the game without restarting over and over again deserve to give you a 3. This is not a story, it has no plot, it has no dialogue or literature. There is just a bunch of really badly designed puzzles that don't enchant the overall experience. Puzzles have no contextual clues and are basically smack choices brute force until you find the clue.

It is true that I am not a fan of puzzles, but there are dozens of better examples of games with cleverly created puzzles where you actually can guess the solution reading the story. This reminds me of the old versions of parser games in the 70s and 80s, but those had humour and wonderfully written descriptions. This is not the case, this feels like the skeleton of a good puzzle game but it forgot the actual story and overall meta plot somewhere.

— poison_mara on 8/24/2020 6:50:04 AM with a score of 1932

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