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Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary – Entertainment Game Review
Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary is a Entertainment/Adventure/Puzzle game from Stanislav Demakov, first launched in 28th November 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 26+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary Stand Out
Embark on an adventure in Mystic Escape: Diary of a Prisoner, full of challenging puzzles in a Japanese style setting. Enjoy the new room escape experience on a mystic island by solving difficult puzzles surrounded by beautiful scenery.
Immerse yourself into this intriguing story. Find cryptic hidden objects and clues on the island that will lead you to great escape or, perhaps, to something even more special.
Plunge again in the universe of the Mystic Diary 4 and explore the diary of a prisoner of the island in the escape games genre.
THRILLING STORY
Waking up in a boat in the middle of the ocean, you realize that you have lost your memories. In the distance you can only see an island and the answer is somewhere faraway. It feels like in a prison here. Sometimes you see the silhouette of a beautiful girl and she is leading you somewhere.
But there are escape puzzles blocking the way and something sinister wants to stop you.
Take the challenge and escape the prison and untangle the knot of your lost memories to restore the mystic diary of events happened on the island.
QUESTIONS
What is the cause of this amnesia? Where were you when all that stranger things start to happen? Who is that girl?
Find the answers!
BEAUTIFUL 3D LOCATIONS
Explore the 3D locations while enjoying an ambient relaxing soundtrack. You can turn and look around, interact with the environment and find hidden objects around you.
PERPLEXING PUZZLES
The levels are full of challenging and logic puzzles. This captivating and mysterious 3D faraway world in Japan setting will bring you a lot of fun for many hours.
EXPLORE THE MYSTERY
Follow the notes left by a mystery person to find the answers. There is something deep inside your memories that will help you to solve the puzzles of this mystic island. The clue is in the past and this is the path to future and its secrets. Find all the hidden objects to make the right choice.
Escape the prison and become a savior? You decide!
WIDESCREEN SUPPORT
This game looks beautiful on the latest devices including the iPhone X, XS, XS Max and iPad Pro.
PLAY FOR FREE
You can play this one the best of escape games for free with the option to purchase additional levels and continue the whole Mystic Escape: Diary of Prisoner story!
Experience the unique gameplay of puzzles and room escape games with Mystic Escape: Diary of Prisoner!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th May 2022
Recent improvements include:
bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mystic Escape: Prisoner Diary on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Our screen is freezing on level 5. We dont get what is happening. It doesnt matter if im at home or on the road. Help.
Games freezes on level 5 as noted in another review. Otherwise a great game.
We do enjoy this game. Please fix the frozen problem at level 5. We are in iPad Pro with iPadOS 16.5.1(c). Please please, we want to finish this. Its a great game.
It does freeze up on level five, we love the game but we had to delete it because of this.
We bought the game, and our screen is freezing on level 5. Is anyone else having this issue? Please help! We would like to finish this great game – the origami puzzles are so original and challenging.
At level 5 and it will not do anything. Reloaded twice but still doesnt move. Please fix.
By the time we got to chapter 5 it froze up. We paid a fee and hopefully get a refund . Its a fun game until chapter 5 froze up.
Really enjoyed this game for the first 4 chapters then the game will not go passed the that. We took all the Apple support steps even before they emailed with the basic instructions. Then we tried to contact the developer for support and it just takes you to a blog post where there is no information on the game and you cant leave a message.
Really wanted to love this game as it is similar to the Faraway games by a different developer, and we did like it…until it would not allow us to play Level Five. All other levels worked great, the puzzles were straightforward and easy to solve. (While we like origami after being stationed in Japan for 4 1/2 years, we prefer not to attempt it in a game. Thank you for the skip option!) we don't mind purchasing these games as developers need to make a living, too, but we also want finish the game we bought. All we get with Level Five are three dots, and a partial view of what looks like stairs going down into a lower room. Problem is this is all we get since the game freezes up every time. Not even the back, hint, and menu buttons work. We have to exit the game without closing it. (BTW…our iPad Air Gen 3 is updated with iOS 15.6, and we noticed this game had a recent update two months ago.) As far as troubleshooting: we have soft and hard rebooted our iPad, offloaded the game (keeps the data and personal info) and reloaded it, and completely uninstalled and reinstalled (twice). One time without and one time hard rebooting after the uninstalled. Nothing worked…Level Five is only three dots and a glimpse of stairs without any moving beyond the entry point. Please advise as to a solution or tell Apple to refund our $. As stated, we don't mind paying money…even more than the small fee we did for this game…but we want a game that works! If you give us a workable solution, we plan to update our review and rating.
Enjoying the game for the most part. Some of the puzzles are a little obtuse but the solutions are easily accessed if you ware stuck, and they update with you so you dont have to scan through a whole level to find your part. Being able to skip the origami puzzles was good too because some of those were SUPER hard. However it seems that the puzzle in the middle of room 10 is broken. The one where youre rotating the center cylinders to get the eye of the dragon. The solution walkthrough video from the hint button gives zero help on where to touch and slide on the screen to get the cylinders to work right. Seems like theres not any consistency as to how they turn. There are definitely points that work but to get that specific interaction to slide the red differently than the yellow is so inconsistent. We could slide it one way but not back. Plus it being so low to the bottom of the screen we kept flipping out of the app which added to the frustration. We gave up after about a half hour of trying to pass this puzzle to no avail. Definitely needs a better more obvious interface.
Update 5/27: Im beyond frustrated with this game. After buying all of the levels, Im permanently stuck on level 6 and will not be able to go any further. This level is beyond ridiculous with the amount of moves you have to correctly make to get all of the lasers & targets lit up. We watched the hint video many times and cant follow it because all of the lasers look the exact same, as does most of the terrain. Plus all of the moving and spinning (both in the actual game and in the videos) gives us severe motion sickness. The YouTube walkthrough for this level is literally 20 min of constant moving and spinning from one laser to the next. If youre going to make the levels so ridiculously hard, then you need to have an option to skip levels and move on to the next one. Ill be requesting a refund since Im unable to play the levels we purchased. Update 4/20: after some updates from the developer, we gave the game another shot and was able to get past the puzzle we were previously stuck on. Im on level 4 and really enjoying the game this time around. Its similar to the Faraway series, but a bit more challenging. We dont care for all the origami puzzles, but like the fact that you can skip them. We plan to purchase all the levels (though we have no idea how many you get with the purchase). It was good until we got to the puzzle with 20 squares and you have to turn them all from red to brown, tapping a square changes the ones adjacent to it. We cant make it happen, the hint is zero help because it moves so fast we cant see where to tap, and theres no option to skip it. Its become too frustrating and no longer fun because Im stuck. Luckily we got stuck before buying the whole game, so we didnt waste any money.
We love this game so much, but Im stuck on Level 8 with the box with the 9 sliding things. The hint doesnt make any sense to us.
Jerky, jittery, hard to control movements in the game. Its like driving a car with a steering wheel so loose that every twitch could lead to a ten-car pileup. Im.
One of the best we have played in a while. Love the hint system. A job well done on the making of this game.
We really enjoyed playing this game. It really takes some thought. Well worth buying.
Update: Stanislav Demakov is a rare gem to the App Store. Was more than willing to work with us in an issue with the screen orientation. Will release a new update to reflect this. Thank you.
Good game. Support devs who make games like this. 90% of the game choices these days are mind numbingly horrible.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.27
- Size: 228.80 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Stanislav Demakov]()
Last updated: 27th May 2022 | Genre: Entertainment, Adventure | Developer: Stanislav Demakov