# Laqueus Escape — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of Laqueus Escape by SmartCode, rated 4.21/5 from 200 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/laqueus-escape/id1489315050/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/laqueus-escape/id1489315050.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 134 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 17 ## What do users think of Laqueus Escape? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Awesome puzzles - 🎨 Great graphics and atmosphere - 👍 Challenging but not impossible - 💰 Good value for free game **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and bugs, especially in later chapters - 🔍 Some puzzles too obscure or illogical - 🔍 Hints not always helpful - 🔍 Navigation and controls can be clunky **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to back out of certain screens - Puzzle solutions not working as expected - Crashes and lost progress - Visibility issues with small details **Most requested features** - More chapters and content - Ability to reset progress - Better hint system - Improved navigation and controls ## Newest reviews (16 of 98) ### 3/5 — Was ok *2026-04-19, version 1.9.44* Didn’t save properly and had to keep repeating things. Didn’t flow easy enough to be able to solve and just got bored of it by chapter 3 ### 3/5 — Engrossing but frustrating *2024-03-24, version 1.9.44* I would have added this to my first review, but the app won’t bring me back to it. I wasn’t impressed with the first chapter, and my opinion of the graphics and animation hasn’t really changed throughout the next three chapters. Also my frustration with in-game text being too small and nearly impossible to read without zooming in on screenshots continues (though that didn’t help trying to read what’s at the bottom of the yellow stripes in Chapter 3). I’m annoyed having to refer to walkthroughs occasionally too, because the hints aren’t very helpful. But as I progressed through chapters, the game became more complex and more engrossing, and now I’m more familiar with the mechanics, so I stuck with it. However, something just happened while I was playing Level 4 that ended my time with this game, unfortunately. I had to refer to a walkthrough again to find out there’s a wheel missing from my screen. The only way to try to resolve this is to reset. Although I did reset just this level, and I was placed back inside the elevator, all of my previous progress was saved, including the omission of that wheel. Apparently the only other option it provides is to reset and go back to redo a previous level as well, which I won’t do! And tapping on App Support here goes nowhere. ### 2/5 — This isn’t right. *2023-10-27, version 1.9.44* Who are you? “Smart code?” That’s too, generated. What are you planning? This isn’t real. ### 4/5 — Glitchy *2022-07-02, version 1.6.6* Update: Changing my rating to 4 stars. Figured out a workaround for the peg game by closing the app completely and restarting. This allowed one chance to place a peg in the location I wanted. Got thru the puzzle after a few tries using this method. Overall the game was fun. ——————————————————————————————- Chapter 6 has a toy peg game that’s very glitchy. Can’t proceed without solving it first. Thru trial & error I found the correct placement for the first peg and was working on the second to correctly bounce the button out of its resting place. On resetting the game to try again I could no longer place the first peg where I wanted it. This game seemed to change and get more difficult to impossible to complete as I got closer to solving it (very bad form). There’s no response with several peg locations and those that will allow placement of a peg don’t work to solve the puzzle. ### 5/5 — best game *2022-06-24, version 1.6.6* starting playing a few days ago and i have to say it’s become one of my favorites. it’s amazing that this is free with few ads because of the insane amount of work that must’ve went into this. the puzzles are creative, graphics are amazing, and i have found no bugs at all. i’m sad i’ve finished it but i had so much fun playing. requires outside of the box thinking and some puzzles are difficult but i think anyone can get them if they try hard enough. also great that there is a hint option if they don’t. 10/10 absolutely recommend to everyone ### 5/5 — Amazing game - worth the ads or $$ *2022-05-29, version 1.6.6* I was astonished by how good this game is! It’s challenging and clever, and no puzzle is like the last. I loved every chapter, and I am hoping they create even more chapters. I bought the ad free version because I’m impatient, but the fact that you can play this game for free is wild. It’s WELL worth the money/ads. If you like games like The Room series, you will definitely like this game. Highly recommend! 10/10 ✋🤚 ### 5/5 — a lot of game for free + ads *2022-05-20, version 1.6.6* This is an impressively full game to be ad-supported, so thank you for making it available without a price tag. There are lots of awesome puzzles. My favorite chapter was the one with the computer within the computer. These developers have many great games in their future. Criticism: The music is creepy. I was glad that the game wasn't creepy, even with the post-industrial aesthetic. I muted it though because of the creepy music. in Chapter 6, it became a little tedious going back and forth to places on the map repeatedly, up and down the elevator. My biggest criticism is not about the game, but about the Homicide Squad ads. It's really unpleasant to be interrupted to see a picture of a gruesome murder. What I liked most about the game is that it had puzzles and art as good as Glitch games, but without any horror (people are getting sick of horror games!!). If you had a narrative/story element to your next game, it will make it a full-fledged adventure. Thank you. Very good game. I just got the paid version after playing to support the developers. ### 5/5 — This developer is a genius! *2022-05-06, version 1.6.6* So I played the first episode a while ago and didn’t realise there had been more chapters added, I got lucky as decided to replay old games and found new content…. Bonus! Wow…. This guy is brilliant the puzzles actually tax your brain and get more fiendish as it progresses, ridiculous that a game of this calibre is free when there are so many games no where near as good that cost a lot. Of course I chose to purchase the ad free version, it’s so important developers like this get rewarded. I really hope to see more and more from this dev/ team? 5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Edit: so now on chapter 6 and I’m absolutely blown away, this is quite easily my favourite game of all time, this developer has given me so much joy, I just don’t want to finish the game! I adore the graphics and layout, love that it feels so open world and that you have to discover everything yourself, every chapter is different, every location different, the puzzles perfect. Not too easy but not illogical. Literally perfect. Please people if you enjoy the game purchase the ad free option early on as so worth it and support this fantastic dev. I really hope there are more like this on the way! ### 4/5 — Not just a point-and-click *2022-02-11, version 1.6.6* I loved it! There were quite a few puzzles that I had to use a calculator for, and a few that took a lot of second looks since my visual memory isn’t great, but I truly enjoyed all the puzzles. Love these devs for releasing quality code and I’m hoping for more like this! Sometimes the hints are not too helpful (in chapter 5, I don’t think I ever even used the tape machine??), but that isn’t too detrimental in the long run. There are also a few times when the whole scene was too dark for me to see objects/clues, requiring me to turn up my screen brightness. ### 4/5 — Very Good *2022-01-22, version 1.6.6* Decent graphics and sound effects. As of today there are 6 chapters to this escape room and they’re all pretty good. Just the right level of challenge for me, anyway. There are some puzzle elements that feel a bit more laborious than they need to be but on the whole a very good effort. Ads aren’t too obtrusive either. ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2022-01-20, version 1.6.6* One of the best 3D puzzle mazes around. The only complaint I have is that I can’t pick up some of the cards. It just doesn’t respond to clicking. Hard puzzles, but getting help from a walkthrough or two is enlightening. Great graphics! The last chapter needs to be longer. It just ends at the top of the stairs. ### 5/5 — Second review- It’s Fantastic *2022-01-07, version 1.6.5* I thoroughly enjoyed this game - every level of it! And given that it is absolutely free WITH NO ADS all I have to say to you bad reviewers is “Shut up you babies!!!” - - - - - FIRST REVIEW BELOW HAD TO DO WITH A GLITCH In the third room, on the side of the green central tower with the keypad and three stacked doors, the center door “AV” is opened and you move in closer to press the button. Something is activates some where. All good so far. Let’s back out and see what happened. You press the white ‘back out’ button in the lower right to return to the greater environment. But you don’t back out. Instead the red button is pressed again. There is no wiggle room to reposition the screen so as to press the white navigation button and not to press the red button repeatedly. The only way out is to exit the game and relaunch. Whatever the red button is moving when pressed is impossible to ascertain. I’m enjoying the game. Please fix this. Other than this show-stopper it’s a fun time. ### 5/5 — Very pleased! *2022-01-02, version 1.6.5* At first, I wasn’t sure about this game. I’ve played more than a few cheap escape room games and either solved them in ten minutes or walked away in frustration. This one is different, though. It’s smart, polished, a bit confusing and frustrating at times, but thanks to the hint system, it’s never too much so. And best of all, the game doesn’t shove an ad in your face every 30 seconds! All in all, a well-deserved 5 stars! ### 4/5 — Enjoying this game, but… *2021-12-17, version 1.6.5* This has been a good game, but it’s stuck at the moment. It displays what looks like a dialogue about allowing tracking, but the okay button does nothing. Can’t get past it. Pretty annoying really… ### 3/5 — Illogical *2021-12-14, version 1.4.14* I don’t really get the task at hand and the fluid of the game is illogical. I’m constantly having to WATCH an ad to get a hint/clue and it still doesn’t make any sense. I’m convinced it’s designed to force you to watch ads for clues. Delete. ### 5/5 — Super enjoyable! *2021-12-04, version 1.4.14* I played through the entire game, and was really very happy with the game play and level of puzzles. I am a big fan of this genre of game, and I found the puzzles to be very unique and challenging... it most are doable without any hints. The graphics are great and the screen movement from scene to scene is very fluid. I played through the game fee without paying to remove the ads, and didn’t find them to be too annoying . . . But now I am going to contribute to the developer as thanks for hours of enjoyment, and support so they will build some more chapters. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too bad *2023-10-15, version 1.9.44* I want to like this game but the 360 motion made me nauseous. It was taking away from the enjoyment of playing a great escape game. I had to stop playing it and delete. ### 1/5 — Bad game design bad puzzles. *2023-01-25, version 1.8.4* The worst escape game i have ever played and I’ve played too many too count so…pretty bad. Graphics and audio are decent but thats the only thing going for it. The devs apparently love giving math problems that could be interpreted in numerous ways but don’t give any context for how to properly interpret the problem without hints. The hints they give are often condescending and mostly useless. They also love giving you hints for problems you’ve already solved. The camera angles are terrible and the game gets super nit picky about the angle you have to look in order to move to another area. Too many moments where you obviously made a change and hear a noise signifying something has moved but it doesn’t give you any idea of where that change occurred. Information overload can sometimes be good but this game loves to give info overload in the form of showing multiple separate puzzle’s clues all at once…all the time, making it difficult to understand what clues are for which puzzle. The game tries selling you with the graphics and animations but falls severely short on what makes an escape game an escape game. Extremely poor execution of game design and understanding of the genre. If i could give negative stars, I would. So I’ll just say it. -2/5 stars. ### 1/5 — Worst escape game we have played. *2021-12-21, version 1.6.5* The difficulty level is so high some times it becomes just frustrating and no longer fun! The computer game allowed you to insert wrong info and didn’t even alert you that your info was incorrect. My husband is pretty good at these and even he’s done with the game. We are deleting it. ### 1/5 — Can’t even launch the game *2021-12-20, version 1.6.5* I came across this game and it looked like something I would like. But it completely freezes on the screen asking me to allow them to track my usage. The “next” button doesn’t work, so I don’t even get the pop up about tracking. And without that, I can’t play the game. ### 1/5 — Glitch *2021-12-03, version 1.4.14* Stuck on tunnels in chapter 5. Did it several times, got my husband to try, followed a walk through nothing worked. Kept getting dead end. I know the walk through was correct and I followed it through 4 times. No joy. Game must be glitched. ### 1/5 — False solutions, not to win ever *2021-10-17, version 1.4.14* Total garbage. Puzzle solutions in chapter 2, 3, 4 and 5 are wrong. Frustration pure. Had potential, but is mega screwed up. ### 1/5 — Broke *2021-06-19, version 1.4.14* Was almost done with the elevator level and then it wouldn’t let me back to the codes to turn the key. And now I can’t even play it because the menu is broken with overlapped screens and I can’t tap anything ### 1/5 — Bug *2021-03-17, version 1.4.14* Paid for ad free game, the movement is totally off- unplayable. ### 1/5 — Bug *2021-03-16, version 1.4.14* In chapter 3, I got the correct code for The AV panel and pressed the red button, but now I can’t press the back button and the screen is stuck looking at the red button. Bummer. Otherwise I was enjoying the game, but I can’t proceed past this bug. Edit: well, they apparently fixed the chapter 3 bug, but now in chapter 4 I’m at the blue, yellow, and pink shapes and I don’t have access to the right row of buttons, as the screen cuts them off when I zoom in to do the puzzle. Also, the hint button is directly over the top left button, so it’s incredibly difficult to press that. I guess I’m forced to quit again until this is fixed. Sigh. I am adding a star to my original review, since I enjoyed it all the way into chapter 4. ### 1/5 — Frustrated too *2020-08-20, version 1.2.10* Same as Luvacanuck described: stuck with this flashing button on chapter 3. Can’t go back with the arrow, it presses the button. Only way out is to exit game ... ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-05-12, version 1.9.44* Well done! Keep them coming! Love the puzzles, love the music, LOVE IT! Thank you! ### 5/5 — One of the best *2024-02-26, version 1.9.44* For those that have been frustrated by a certain level, stuck it out because it’s one of the best escape games out there. I’ve played them all, including many popular ones that cost over $8 just for the privilege. This costs nothing but I did buy the no ads just to give the developers something. It’s one of the best. I’ve played rooms, Vinci, Meridan and legacies. This is up there with the best. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2024-01-16, version 1.9.44* Best puzzle game I’ve ever played love it. ### 5/5 — Great puzzles *2023-10-28, version 1.9.44* Difficult but fun puzzles. Most mini-games / puzzles are ready to play when you find them. Occasionally there is a missing piece. ### 5/5 — Update please loll *2023-01-22, version 1.8.4* I need a new level or something 😂 love this game series. ### 5/5 — MUSIC!!! *2022-11-25, version 1.7.0* The 1st level I freaky about the music. I thought I would actually die In this level. But…the second has a reaction to my face:👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😃😃😃😃😃!!!!! I love this sound I mean, it’s like something that should be on Apple Music! Please send a review about this review! ### 5/5 — Absolutely brilliant *2022-10-18, version 1.7.0* I love puzzle adventure games and This game did not disappoint at all. Challenging puzzles at times. However the in game help aid was definitely a bonus when needed. I wish there were more games like this. Really well put together. Thanks to the team who made this, you are extremely talented. Looking forward to your next game. ### 5/5 — Great game *2022-08-29, version 1.6.6* Good puzzles and level of difficulty. Different. No silly story. Few ads. ### 5/5 — Much better than 4.0 *2022-07-31, version 1.6.6* Don’t know how this is only 4.0 - from written reviews looks like maybe some early bugs and when only initial ‘taster’ level available. Fantastic game - both graphics and gameplay. Very original puzzles - in particular ones that aren’t just single screen but where you need to go back and forth with variations on a clever theme eg the shipping container. In this way like Rime or The Treasure. Easily worth paying for ### 5/5 — Literally the best escape game I’ve ever encountered *2022-07-28, version 1.6.6* Never have I ever loved played an escape room game more than this one. Everything is so unique from the way you solve puzzles to the smooth animations. I’m surprised the devs had the time to make such a masterpiece. Each puzzle is beautiful and unique, and I feel accomplished when I finish a chapter. Truly one of the best games I’ve played --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-05.*