# The Secret of Crimson Manor — user reviews

> 242 indexed App Store user reviews of The Secret of Crimson Manor by MediaCity Games, rated 4.30/5 from 140 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-secret-of-crimson-manor/id503963609.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 89 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 8

## What do users think of The Secret of Crimson Manor?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
- 🚀 Quick to complete
- 💡 Interesting story and premise
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 👍 Relaxing experience

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🕰️ Too short in length
- 📝 Poor English translation
- 👎 Lack of challenge or difficulty
- 👎 Uninteresting ending

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Telephone clue not working
- Unable to progress due to glitches
- Inconsistent behavior of interactive objects

**Most requested features**

- More challenging puzzles
- Longer gameplay duration
- Improved translation and proofreading
- Ability to save progress

## Newest reviews (13 of 242)

### 2/5 — Pop up box is horrible..

*2021-01-21*

This game use to be enjoyable until they changed something. Now every time you touch anything a huge dialogue box pops up that covers a full third to half the game with useless tips. Such as: “you picked up the key” or “you picked up a Larger key”. Way too annoying for me to complete the game. Wish there was a way to opt out of the pop ups.

### 3/5 — Far too easy

*2020-11-15*

Nice looking game, but way too easy. I like the MediaCity adventures, but this one requires little skill to solve and is ultimately unrewarding. Probably one of their early games. The clues are very simple and obvious. A beginners game.

### 3/5 — It’s ok

*2020-07-22*

Definitely not the funnest escape game I’ve played that’s for sure. It was too easy in my opinion. The graphics were cool, except you could tell where an object was added into the pic/room that had to be clicked on or picked up. I literally completed the game in half an hour, running through the rooms and figuring it out quick. It wasn’t really challenging. I wish I hadn’t spent my money on this game but oh well. I still give it 3 stars.

### 2/5 — Crimson manor

*2020-05-28*

The telephone clue would not work. I will try reinstalling, as unable to proceed with game.

**Developer response:** Hi, did you take the photograph to the computer monitor with the clue? For some puzzles to work you must have the clue in your notebook or it will not work. We did that to encourage the players to experience the games over using walkthroughs.

### 4/5 — Awesome time to kill time on a train

*2020-03-03, version 1.6*

Trains are boring and this game helped me pass some time stubbornly though when i ride the railroad- it does feel time slows down even stops sometimes.   HaHa.

### 3/5 — Nana

*2019-08-12, version 1.6*

Would give this game five stars but the telephone in the living room does not work and I am unable to get the computer chip for the computer, so I’m unable to go forward in the game. Has anyone else had this problem?  How can it be solved?

### 2/5 — Very brief

*2019-05-21, version 1.6*

Too short for the money.

### 4/5 — Game was average

*2018-12-18, version 1.6*

I like your Alice in wonderland the best - this game isn’t as fun but not as bad as others posted.

### 5/5 — Excellent....more please!!!!

*2018-03-30*

I loved this game when it first came out and still enjoy it now, yes it doesn’t take a maths masters but sometimes you want to relax of an evening and it’s certainly more complex than candy crush etc I like the story and setting and while it isn’t as big as their other offerings perhaps it was an early version? Anyway thanks again media city.

### 5/5 — I wouldn't change one thing!

*2017-11-28*

I love this game so much, and I don't know why people are complaining about it. I've beat the game many times, and it never gets boring. I suggest that you make a mystery at an amusement park called, " The Mystery of the Shutdown Amusement Park". I hope you'll be able to make that game! Thanks for making this game!

### 3/5 — I wanted to like this game.

*2017-02-21, version 1.6*

This game was sort of so so... it was good I don't regret playing it but the other two games by this developer were excellent, the Lost Fountain and Alice trapped in Wonderland and both I thought were superior to this game

### 4/5 — 荒削り過ぎかなぁ

*2017-01-22*

オーラスの突然のノーヒント数論なぞなぞは個人的には楽しめたけど、そこに至るまでの序盤〜中盤はただのひとつずつの行ったり来たりのおつかいを消化するだけで全くパズル要素や閃き或いは記憶力を使った謎解き要素はなし。そもそも背景ストーリーに芯の強さが全く感じられず、ヴィジュアルやマテリアルにも特に必然性や統一された世界観がなく、これは駄作の見本のような作品です。

### 3/5 — Enjoyable, just needs beginners rank.

*2017-01-06*

It is a good game for beginners of this type of gameplay. For anyone with even a little experience you would be lucky to get an hour before game end. 
Enjoyable, just needs a beginners rank :)

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Awful

*2022-11-06*

This game is just terrible.

### 1/5 — Miss

*2022-10-19*

I carn’t seem to get past the map to get the leaver to appear I need sone help please could your team help me in any way

### 1/5 — Poor

*2020-06-10*

Could not use the telephone.....gave up.

### 1/5 — Did i really buy this!?

*2020-04-16*

I can only imagine that the reviews raving about this app are the developers themselves, along with their friends and family!
I have played all of the adventure apps that many know and this one is at the bottom of the pile.
It is ridiculously simple and very linear. Selecting items from the inventory is clunky. There is an annoying banner that takes-up half of the screen every time you click on something.
The ‘wonderful graphics’ that get mentioned are just basic stills with a selectable object slapped in the middle. If you have a brain, then you will realise that you have to click on it to progress to the next blindingly-obvious clue.
Yes there are spelling mistakes, but these are the least of the problems.
Even if this game was free, i would hate that i had wasted any time on it.
Seriously, do yourselves a favour and skip it....even if it on offer as a freebie! You have been warned.

### 1/5 — I thought it was going to be good based off the best game in so many countries

*2018-08-30, version 1.6*

I wish I would have chosen a better game for my dollar this wasn’t worth purchasing there are free games better than this. I’m sorry but I was bored and depressed that I picked the wrong one. The pictures aren’t awful but it’s definitely not worth paying for.

### 1/5 — Beyond Easy

*2018-07-08, version 1.6*

This was the easiest escape game I’ve ever played. I’m honestly a little upset I spent the money. Might be ok for young kids, but not for adults.

### 1/5 — Secret Charges!

*2017-11-16, version 1.6*

Paid $3.99 and just found out that they charged me .99 cents for no reason! I don’t care what the amount is, no unknown charges tolerated!

### 1/5 — Worst Game Ever

*2016-05-20, version 1.6*

Don't waste your time or money. This was such a DULL game I kept playing thinking it had to get better. Never did. Not even a normal
hidden objects mystery game. AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL!!!!!!!!

### 1/5 — Very poor language

*2015-02-17*

The text in this game is unreadable. Not for grammarphiles.

### 1/5 — Waste of time

*2015-01-10, version 1.5*

Lousy graphics, inconsistent plot, functionally illiterate script writing, "random" item placement, unsatisfying conclusion. Don't bother with this one.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Super time pass

*2025-06-27*

Love the game.  Not a big fan of hidden objects but this one makes you think and use. Don’t start it at night coz you may not be able to stop :)

### 5/5 — Best adventure game

*2022-11-11*

We have played other adventure games which became so difficult to follow , we lost interest. This game was so imaginative , including letters and clues which were exciting to follow. 
Very well done!! We would like to see more from the team who put this adventure together.

### 5/5 — Thumbs up

*2022-07-03*

Fun game.  Played it with the gf.  Took over an hour, under two.

### 5/5 — Good experience for iPhone game

*2021-11-27*

Felt surprised when I transferred back the big house. Nice to make a choice of immortality ~

### 5/5 — Nostalgia.

*2020-07-04*

This game is my childhood. I used to play it when I was a little kid with some of my family and it took a long long time to beat it, last night my brother downloaded it for nostalgia and we just started playing. I love this game so much, and it brings me so much nostalgia and many memories when I play it. Now if I were to actually go in on this game in a review though, I would say that it’s a pretty fun puzzle game that isn’t really difficult, but difficult enough to still be fun. The story has enough effort put in it to be interesting, and the premise of project chrono itself is pretty interesting to me. There are only a couple things I actively think are flaws in the game. The biggest problem with this game is a place in the wine cellar where you get the shield. You have to put those circles in a random combination that was just randomly made up, and no clues are hidden to show you why. Even though I can acknowledge that that’s a flaw, I still don’t really care that much, and if I did, I would still give this game a 5/5 because of nostalgia. This game really held up in quality coming back years an years later, I really love this game. I know this review won’t be seen, but I just felt that I wanted to write it. Five stars out of five, thanks for the memories.

### 5/5 — 楽しかった

*2020-07-03*

難しかったけど楽しかったです

### 5/5 — Nice beginner game

*2020-05-31*

The gameplay was very straight forward and it felt like each scene didn’t require too much investigation to find what was needed for the puzzle at hand. 
I used only one hint because I was too lazy to keep track of required info to use near the end of the game. 
I also immediately replayed the game to an alternative outcome (I preferred my initial decision). 
Thanks

### 5/5 — Appreciated

*2020-01-01*

Interesting thoughts and encouraging words are woven into this game. The puzzles are relatively easy and there are no huge expanses to cross so the story flows along and it’s pretty good.

### 5/5 — Part 2??

*2019-11-09, version 1.6*

I enjoyed this one so much! Will there be a continuation of the story?
There was a lot to explore and it was thrilling and beautiful!

### 5/5 — Good fun

*2019-03-27*

I played through this game in one sitting, so except for a couple moments of “Hmmm...”, it was fairly easy (or maybe I’m just getting a lot better at these- we’ll go with that😁). Regardless, it was well worth my time, as the puzzles were still fun to solve without blowing a “head” gasket. Graphics were nice, navigation smooth, objects worked correctly, and solutions were mostly intuitive. The story was a little cartoony, and the “lost-in-translation” prose only exacerbated it, but at least it had continuity and made me laugh a little. The choose-your-ending finale was a bit weirdly melodramatic, and I have no intention of replaying to see the other one, but in any case I felt some satisfaction at having finished it. I’ve played at least one of the newer MediaCity puzzlers, and it was more polished and a little more difficult, so I applaud their efforts in making quality stuff. I’ll probably be playing more of theirs, and would recommend them as a general go-to for good games.

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