Blue Prince Review

Playing Blue Prince felt like trying to solve a blindfolded Rubik’s cube. And weirdly, I loved every second of it. Blue Prince itself is an odd game, cryptic in its nature and one that has you constantly …wondering what’s just out of reach, something you haven’t quite figured out yet.

First Impression

The whole concept is just so awesome: you inherit this huge mansion from your late family member …with one caveat—the mansion is only yours if you can find the 46th room. Piece of cake, right? Wrong. Because with each day spent exploring, it rearranges itself. It reconstructs itself like some kind of bizarre living puzzle box.

What I particularly liked is that you’re not just running around solving obvious puzzles. A lot of the game is a question of paying attention—how rooms connect, what clues are hidden in casual places, how choices today can close off or open up possibilities tomorrow.

The Gameplay is like playing a head game

This game does make you think. It never takes your hand at any given moment. You’re not given many clear steps each day, so every move feels precious. I caught myself sitting back and thinking quite a bit—sometimes more so than actually playing. Not because I was bored, just because I didn’t want to spoil my chance to get further into the mansion.

Some of the rooms are straightforward. Some are like they’re giving the solution to you almost, but not quite. And if you mess up, it’s like, “Okay. I’ll do that one again, this time with more wits.”

What Makes It Stand Out?

What stuck with me the most were the atmosphere and the ambiance. The visuals are crisp and ominous. The sound is very subtle and makes one believe that every creaking floor and every ticking clock is ominous. It has this underlying narrative unfolding to it as well, in letters and clues, and it slowly builds this ominous feeling that the mansion is something greater than walls and doors.