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Come join our RPS Game Club liveblog for The Tartarus Key next Monday!Hang out to chat spooky puzzles on Monday 3rd
Hang out to chat spooky puzzles on Monday 3rd
Image credit:Armor Games Studios, Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Armor Games Studios, Rock Paper Shotgun
This month’s pick for ourRPS Game Clubis the nails sort-of-horror puzzle gameThe Tartarus Key, and we’ll be doing another funtabulous liveblog to chat about it with you nextMonday July 3rd at 4pm BST / 8am PDT. Is that a different month to the current one? Yes. But do I make the rules? Also yes. And, like Katharine waslast time, I’m travelling right now, so Monday it is.
The Tartarus Key Story TrailerWatch on YouTube
The Tartarus Key Story Trailer
If you’ve not played The Tartarus Key you can get a taster with the free demo of the first couple of puzzles onSteam. They’re some of the easier ones, and they still took me bloody ages to figure out. If you work out how the internet functions (a feat beyond even the most senior of Google techs) then do come and join us for a fun chat on Monday, at 4pm BST / 8am PDT.
I’ve put my review in below, plus the other articles we’ve written about it this month, and will update it before Monday with anything else we add. Get in the mood to consider how in real life you wouldn’t be able to solve these puzzles and would probably gradually wither away in a locked mansion, ho ho!
Image credit:Armor Games Studios, Rock Paper Shotgun
The Tartarus Key review
Guess what? I liked it! The Tartarus Key is, as I point out, nails - but it’s worth putting in the effort, especially if you’re a puzzle game fan. Depending on what ending you get it can feel abrupt at the finish, but for the dedicated it’s worth a replay, too.
The Tartarus Key is great when you’ve got a clever friend who can do the puzzles for you
The Tartarus Key’s theming rules because it’s tropey, not scary
I opine (as is my wont) on why I think the way The Tartarus Key’s themes are great - to expect it to be actually scary is missing the point. It’s more supposed to remind you of horror than be actual horror itself. It’s cool!
