3 reviews liked by Sarafly


Beautiful walking-sim-adjacent game with a good variety of enchanting environments. Story's pretty good, but none of the puzzles pose a challenge.

made me the bad bitch I am today

Completed both chapters with 100% of achievements unlocked. A nice send-off for the Cube Escape series, the standalone Paradox returns to a single-room setting, but, spread across two chapters, there's an impressive amount of depth to be explored within what might initially seem to be a quite limited environment. Once again, the core premise of the game is to escape from the room, solving almost wholly mouse-based puzzles between four walls that you can cycle between. Intriguingly, Paradox also comes bundled with a short film that acts out some relevant extracts of the game's events, and is actually crucial to some of the achievements. To be honest, I'm still not overly fond of those puzzles based on pattern recognition and codes more widely, but these are a minority here and the majority of the puzzle design is strong.

The surreal, creepy (and at times, arguably, disturbing) continues here, used to good effect, with a high level of production values despite the 2D hand-drawn graphics - and so long as that isn't a turn-off, puzzle fans should have a good time here.