It's a room escape point and click puzzle game.
In essence, your main goal is to get out of a weird room filled with old arcade machines, strange computers, and what appears to be some kind of alien hooked to a virtual reality headset. To do that, you must gather useful objects and use them in ingenious ways.
EV Nova is a Carbon application and runs natively on both the original Mac OS and Mac OS X, and has been ported to Windows. Version 1.1.0 of EV Nova, released in December 2008, is a Universal Binary, and runs natively on Intel-based Macs. Adapted versions of the scenarios of the first two games that run natively in EV Nova are available for free. Play the best escape games online! These games might be tricky sometimes, so be prepared. The player must solve some difficult puzzles and use them with objects to find a way out from a different mysterious places. Room escape games are a sub-genre of adventures and puzzles, usually created as a free online game.
Although the graphics may look simple and in 2D, the artwork is great and you can tell that the artist took his time coming up with it. The strange machinery and the nice choice of colors create unique atmosphere, although the soundtrack contributes a lot to the feeling as well.
[excerpts from review by Alexandru Dulcianu]
[This game was created in 2014 and sponsored by JayisGames.com]
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | |
Author | Mateusz Skutnik |
Genre | Puzzle |
Tags | escape, Escape Game, Point & Click, room, room-escape |
No installation needed, it's a standalone game. Just download and unpack it.
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love the art, its amazing. Tho, the items and their uses isn't very intuitive
Took me awhile but i manage to escape YEA! really love the art work and idea, great work good job.
If you go to Jayisgames.com, you will find the game's page has downloadable Mac version listed. I couldn't get it to open on my Mac OS Mojave version 10.14, but maybe you can on your Mac. IF NOT, just click the large yellow PLAY bar seen the Jayisgames page, allow Flash plugin to operate if it asks you, and you're off! I am playing it directly from the website that way right at this moment. Hope this helps you...
This was really cool. i wish it was longer and that the story would be explained and all that, but i still had a good time playing it. The art was great, it was challenging without being unfair, the music and sounds were good and worked well with the atmosphere of the game, and it was visually very interesting. overall a great point-n-click, very enjoyable. i hope to play more of your games in the future.
Very hard escape room with a bunch of different objects and, lots of things to try to use them on. The biggest question is what is the yellow stuff?!!
I'd suggest not stretching the image to fill entire frame.
Matuesz, I just want to say that I've loved your work for a long time. I'm incredibly happy a new game of your's has come out. I'm super excited for your future projects, and I hope you keep up the good work!
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So this is a download version with gamemaker but what happened to your game from other website. (For example newgrounds, kongregate, etc) ?
No, this is still flash. It's an older game.
Btw, Newgrounds and Kongrgate don't accept downloadable games (ie created in game maker).
I recently reviewed an interesting text-based game for iOS called Blackbar. Somewhat different from other text-based adventure games, this was quite the unique title. But it made me long for a more traditional text-based adventure game experience. A quick survey of the Mac App store proved that the selection of text-based games was quite limited. I decided to give a game called Escape from the Maiden’s Curse, as it had both text-based gaming elements, as well as some interesting visual elements. It’s not a traditional text-based adventure game in the style of Zork, but it does have some of those elements.
Main Functionality
Escape from the Maiden’s Curse is a game where you must escape from a strange and mysterious cruise ship, using only your wits.
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The game opens as you have been transported to a mysterious cruise ship amid mysterious and maniacal laughter. Trapped in Room 307, you decide that you must escape! The game scenario is presented as text, with a map of the ship serving as your sole visual.
The controls here are very simple. You can use your mouse to scroll down through walls of text, or you can click on areas of the ship or icons to make your moves. The clickability makes Escape from the Maiden’s Curse a lot more accessible than more classic text-based adventure games. There no frustrating need to find the right words to commit your next action: we’ve all been in a position playing those old-school games where you had to go through too many commands to move ahead (like, “pick up rock,” “grab rock,” “take rock.”)
The exploratory nature of Escape from the Maiden’s Curse is tons of fun, and it’s very interesting to examine the objects in very rooms and try to figure out what your next move should be. The game is so much easier to navigate than a traditional text-based adventure game, especially when it comes to using items in combination with one another. The clickable interface is an excellent feature of this interesting game.
I can see this game appealing to fans of text-based adventure games, choose your own adventure books, mystery games, board games, or tabletop RPGs. In short, it’s got kind of an alt-nerdy feel to it. If you’re into text-adventure games or just love a good mystery, this is a game worth checking out. It’s not the flashiest game, but it has a surprising amount of substance.
Price: $1.99
Version reviewed: 1.0
Supported OS: OS X 10.7 or later
Download size: 10.9 MB
Escape from the Maiden’s Curse on Apple App Store