4/5 ★ – mattbrookbank's review of Blue Prince.

Blue Prince is a game where your great uncle has passed away. In his will, he leaves you his whole 45 room estate, but he gives the requirement that you find a secret 46th room in the estate to claim it for yourself. The way this works is as you open a door in the estate, you draw three random rooms then pick one and draft that room into the floorplan of the manor. You only have so many steps you can take a day (and entering a new room costs 1 step). So you'll eventually run out of steps, or end up with only locked doors or dead ends and have to call it a day. The next day, the manor shifts and you'll draw all new rooms all over again. When you finally get to room 46, credits roll, but it is clear there is ALOT more to discover in and around the manor. I'm also not really sure if there is a definitive end. Every time I tried to look it up, and found a YouTube video claiming to show the end of the game, many comments say that that video is not the end. So it kind of felt like I just had to decide when I was finished with the adventure and choose my own exit to take. Blue Prince is both amazing and frustrating at the same time. I found room 46 twice, unlocked 3 sanctum doors, I know there's stuff I haven't seen yet in the game, but the grind hoping for different rooms to randomly line up so you can solve a puzzle you know how to solve or even access a puzzle has worn my patience enough that I think it's time for me to move on. I had fun in the manor at Mt. Holly, but I'm tired of living in a tent.