Egress: The Test of STS - 417

Gaming Genres: Graphical Adventure
Story Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
Graphical Styles: 2D, Hand-Drawn, Cartoon
Platforms: Windows
Pricing Model: Free
Developer(s): Krams
Publisher(s): Krams, Adventure Game Studio (AGS)
Initial Release Date: November 12, 2011
Website(s): Homepage, AGS Entry
Description:
Egress is a short form sci-fi adventure game set in the outer reaches of space. With features that include hand drawn, frame-by-frame, 2D animation cinematics, including short intro and ending sequences, and multiple endings designed to reflect the actions of the player.

The story begins when you, the commander of a two man recon team, are sent hurtling into space during maintenance on an interplanetary probe. After a sudden attack from an alien black substance, you awake on a mysterious planet. Where are you? How did you get there? And why is your partner screaming for help down the intercom.

Opinion:
Very beautiful and full of puzzles with multiple solutions, Egress is a very interesting title that is more then worth a playthrough. But it is not all good, and the two puzzles in the game that are designed to actually challenge are horribly illogical, and one is particular defies the laws of a 3D world.

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Hints/Tips/Walkthrough (+):

• Indie Elitist Hints (+):
• Door Panel Puzzle (+)
• Brute Force Solution
• Did you notice something during the cutscene?
• In the top right of the doorway screen is a small cave, look into it.
• Now that you have the hammer you can use it to force the panel open.
• Finally use your pistol grip tool on the hydraulics.
• Intelligent Solution
• It has to do with the lights.
• Include the light over the panel.
• The panel display shows numbers.
• The top left section of the panel corresponds to the vertical lights and the bottom right of the panel corresponds to the horizontal lights.
• The solution is: 4 top left (press the button 4 times), and 8 bottom right (press the button 8 times).
• Three Moons Puzzle (+):
• Jacobs is in one of the holes.
• Ignore the normal laws of far away objects (i.e. moons) and trigonometry in a 3D world and pick the one that looks like it is under (in 2D space) three moons.
• It is the hole that is directly under the closest bent rock spine.

Indieness: Quintessentially Indie
Play?: Should Play