The Bradwell Conspiracy

Love the game, love the story, and it keeps me captivated and it's so fun solving these puzzles the game throws at you. I love when a mobile game doesn't throw itself into the expectation of the rest of mobile games and has strong storylines, a great 3D world to explore and has a message! (No offense to literally 99% of mobile games) but I just wish I could learn what that message is. The game falls SUPER short with bugs, I haven't really noticed the bugs that everyone else was commenting on (maybe I downloaded it after a bug update) BUT I have had some nasty occurrences with graphics freaking out and the worst one of all... I can't finish the game. I got lost at a puzzle about 1/2 through the game and so I decided to take a break and come back tomorrow. Well the game saved my spot and what resources I had used but not the amount of "substance" I had saved, a crucial part to progressing. Now the only way for me to continue is by restarting the ENTIRE game. Yeah, there isn't even an option to restart the level. Pretty sad about losing all my progress just because of a small bug. Hopefully this gets fixed or at least they add a restart level/chapter option. Probably won't finish it now, unfortunately, but excited to watch playthroughs! Looks fun, definitely recommend if they release some good patches!

I almost gave it 3 stars because it has some real issues but in the end it is still a fun game. The comparisons to Portal are kind of weak; it’s a very different game. It runs great on my iPad Pro but suffers in performance and frame rate on my Apple TV(where I would prefer to play). I definitely recommend using a controller. The voice acting is the best of any game on the App Store, hands down. It is almost console quality. It isn’t without flaws though. Many parts of the game are not intuitively built and left me wondering what to do. I had to reference the only available walkthrough since the game literally just came out. That it’s really frustrating and is much more than just a difficulty issue. It has a quest guide but it’s flawed and sometimes doesn’t give enough information or gets stuck telling you to do things you already did. The story is pretty interesting if not a little predictable. It’s a short game that can be finished in about 2-3 hours. I definitely recommend it but maybe wait until it’s updated. A lot.

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UPDATE 11/23: got a note from the dev saying the game had been updated and was invited to update this review as well. Booted up the game, and voila, I crossed the gap immediately! Only to come to a second gap thirty seconds later that is also impossible to cross. After ten minutes of nudging the controller, mashing the button, and getting the INVALID PLACEMENT sound effect, I give up. Original review: I really like this game and am eager to finish it. But about 45 minutes in, you come to a gap that you need to build a bridge across, and a bug makes it literally impossible to do—the platform bits will not extend beyond the lip of the broken floor. PC walkthroughs indicate that this is a trivial task, but on my copy of the Apple Arcade version, it simply can’t be done, not on iPad, TV, or Mac, neither with touch controls or Xbox controller. I emailed the developer and got a polite reply but it’s been weeks with no update and I fear that this may never be fixed. Some people here have made it through, but for whatever reason, I cannot, on iPad Pro 12.9, 2019 iMac, and 4K TV. To the game’s credit, quitting on one device and picking up on another works flawlessly—this is impressive. But I’m with the crowd who has been stymied by bugs.

I’m honestly more disappointed with the bad reviews for this game. I absolutely love this game, and it doesn’t deserve and overall 3.2 star rating. I admit there are problems like the graphics and saving can be confusing. But, the puzzles are really fun and although I’ll be searching for a while for substance, it’s a really amazing feeling when I finally find it, and probably my favorite part, the voice acting is AMMAZING and the way they set up your character, I actually felt like I was the character or I kinda felt like I actually knew and was really talking with Amber. And the sense of mystery is amazing, I really hope the developers make more games like this and can work out the kinks. But none the less I love this game and it’s definitely in my top 5 list of Apple Arcade.

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This game has potential but feels unfinished. Horrible controls with camera panning so slow you forget what you’re panning to by the time it gets there. The “helper” asks for pictures of where you are because “she wants to help” but pretty much any time you send one, she makes some snarky comment about it being a nice picture but she doesn’t know what you need help with. The only time she does have any advice is when you already know what to do. This game also has a lot of dead ends which makes it unnecessarily difficult to get to the puzzles. That combined with the slow, awkward panning makes moving around something to dread rather than a chance to explore. That part isn’t fun at all. More than once, I had to fight the urge to just close the game out of boredom or disgust at having to wait another 10 full seconds for the camera to pan over an area of 180 degrees. Laborious is probably the best description I could give. Until this is fixed, it’s a no from me dawg.