Blue Prince

This game is very divisive and I am in both camps

Game no: 547

Genre: Puzzle
Platform: PC
Release Date: 2025

I first heard of Blue Prince (which is a play on the word Blueprints) from a lot of podcast I heard. Some called it the greatest game ever made, a must play and all the buzzwords alike. How delighted I was to find that this game was free to play on Playstation Plus. So I decided to try it out and here is my own review of this game. It is going to be a long one so bear with me 

What is Blue Prince? So the premise is simple enough to understand. You are Simon and your grandfather pass away and have given you his entire estate. The only catch is you have to find the 46th room. The house also comes with a set of rules. First rule is that you can't spend the night in the house. 2nd rule is that everyday you enter the door the house resets and you need to draft a new room everytime you enter a door. 3rd rule is that you start off with 50 steps and everytime you enter a room you will lose one step. If by the end of the day you haven't finished the puzzle you have to call it a day. The day will reset and you have to start over again.

So that is the main premise of Blue Prince. But underneath the simple game mechanic is a complex layers of puzzles that you need to solve in order to advance the story and reach the 46th room. The thing is that each room that you draft whether it be a art room, study room, bed room, painting room and the 45 different rooms. You will unlock something. Something that will advance the story more. Weather it be a clue, a device (like the shovel, metal detector) and also currency in a form of food (steps) keys and gems to unlock rooms. That means each run won't let you win the game but you will make progress on each of the run eventually.  You will probably be in Day 90 where everything will just click for you and you will have a great run that can finally unlock the 46th room. 

So why do I like the game. The visual are just teriffic to look at. It's just a room with a lot of small details that you have to look closely to see it. The gameplay is quite fun. Drafting rooms to see where you are going next makes for an interesting run. The items and treasures you find also gives you a sense of you progressing. There is a story about the mansion but if you don't want to read it its okay. 

But this game has it flaws as well, this game and been critically praised. I find that this game really does not respects the players time. I know the RNG (Random Number Generator) plays a big role in each run. Basically you won't get the same room or the room that you wanted in that day and you have to start again. It does make the game super frustrating. The economy in the game as well it is not so good. You will run out of keys and gems before you will run out of steps. In the end not only I was frustrated but I feel that this game will only be fun if things go your way. Most of the time you'll aimless wondering the hallsw waiting for you next clue to advance further in the game. I am all for that but after a couple of days of drafting the same room over and over again it suddenly becomes such a bore.

This is a new part of my reveiw of playing this game with Aurora. Aurora is a cheat engine from cheat happens. I can say this, if you value your time and you want the most of the game. Play this game with cheats. You will still need to solve all the puzzles on your own. But with the ability to reroll a draft if you are not satisfied, unlimted gems, keys and step. This game becomes more fun.. Eventually when you slove the big mystery and get to room 46. You won't waste a lot of time and you also feel like you accomplished something. Going forward some games will be played with cheats since having cheats doesn't diminish my enjoyment of the game. 

In conclusion, Blue Prince is an awesome game. A roughlike puzzle mystery game that is fun to play and no two runs are the same. Is the game for everyone, probably not. I can also say that this game isn't for me as well. But I manage to enjoy it my own way. I give the game am S-Rank