On a whim a few days ago, I decided I would revisit the Riddle School series, I figured it would be short enough to go through quickly and the series has been in the back of my head for longer than I can remember.

The first Riddle School game is by far the simplest, even if you're coming in completely blind you'll probably figure it all out in less than 10 minutes. It makes it a bit hard to judge as I would other games with more to do, but this is (seemingly) JonBro / Jonochrome's first foray into game-making so a lot of it was probably just learning the process.

For what it's worth, this amateurism is one of the game's greatest benefits; the graphics are a bit dirty but very charming and very Newgrounds nevertheless. Some of the solutions, like finding the hall pass or getting into the teacher's lounge are a bit obtuse, but the game gives you a strong enough understanding of your controls by this point to make brute forcing it relatively easy.

In a vacuum this game probably would not have been overwhelmingly notable, but nowadays its reputation just sort of seems to precede it as the games became more and more ambitious. In any case it's pretty cool that a starting developer could make something this complete and coherent on what is probably their first go.