5 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.3 hrs on record
Posted: 3 Aug, 2016 @ 3:04am

Lamia's Game Room is a card game with a somewhat dark atmosphere. Technically it runs fine (no crashes), but the misspellings and grammatical errors can become annoying.

The player attempts to escape the eponymous creature by battling two opponents in each chapter to progress to the next. The game is basically Old Maid with a modified card design: the paired cards are the seven deadly sins with the "Old Maid" being the Lamia. When a card is selected but not yet taken, the holder may have certain expressions that can clue the player in to whether the card is the Lamia or otherwise. In practice I found this system to be unreliable; the bluffs are often inaccurate and only get worse with each subsequent chapter. This can make the end games tedious as the player's low win rate will require more than a few retries to progress.

However the game is still worth a recommend as the ending shows some potential story expansions. There is also the possibility that more game types could be added in a sequel. Overall the game is worth its price and the achievements are easy to get (one for completing each chapter) as long as the substandard writing is overlooked.
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2 Comments
Sleepy 4 Aug, 2016 @ 11:00am 
Thanks for the compliment :sgsmile: I had the frustration too as you are thrown into battle right off the start with little explanation. The ending did reveal a few pieces of the player backstory (which I can only assume will be further fleshed out in a sequel), but there are still many questions left unanswered.
Jasperline 3 Aug, 2016 @ 1:38pm 
Thank you for your review. I really enjoyed the game too, minus the errors and sometimes not knowing what was going on.