This game evokes pretty polarizing emotions in me.
I LOVE it for its puzzle content. There's a lot of great puzzles and exciting secrets to uncover. S tier game in that aspect.
I HATE it for the drafting game. I despise all the keys, gems, steps, security doors etc etc. It's a huge not-at-all-fun time waster. D tier game in that aspect.
The big issue with it is that usually in puzzle games where you have an idea to do something cool or you have some theory and want to test it out, you can just go and do it. In Blue Prince you pretty often have to make some hour-long preps. I spent 120 hours on it, while the interesting content of it could have been easily presented in 40 hours gameplay.

Also, the game naturally partitions into early game (till reaching Room 46), midgame (till certain Trophy) and lategame, which greatly vary between themselves.
Midgame is amazing - tons of interesting puzzles to work on, highly recommend.
Early game is good cause you get a lot of cool exploration and start to uncover some secrets and get initial leads on various puzzles, but it's in a big part about the boring drafting game. Also, it ramps up quite slowly, so you may easily bounce off by not seeing anything cool in first, say, 5 hours (I was very close to it). Mid recommendation.
Lategame is terrible. The progression path is super narrow and the puzzles quality drops off big, they are in big part total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It has an exciting and grandiose finish with good puzzles, but what precedes it makes it not worth it. Not recommend at all.

All in all, a B tier game for me (cause it's an average of S tier and D tier).

This game evokes pretty polarizing emotions in me. I LOVE it for its puzzle content. There's a lot of great puzzles and exciting secrets to uncover. S tier game in that aspect. I HATE it for the drafting game. I despise all the keys, gems, steps, security doors etc etc. It's a huge not-at-all-fun time waster. D tier game in that aspect. The big issue with it is that usually in puzzle games where you have an idea to do something cool or you have some theory and want to test it out, you can just go and do it. In Blue Prince you pretty often have to make some hour-long preps. I spent 120 hours on it, while the interesting content of it could have been easily presented in 40 hours gameplay. Also, the game naturally partitions into early game (till reaching Room 46), midgame (till certain Trophy) and lategame, which greatly vary between themselves. Midgame is amazing - tons of interesting puzzles to work on, highly recommend. Early game is good cause you get a lot of cool exploration and start to uncover some secrets and get initial leads on various puzzles, but it's in a big part about the boring drafting game. Also, it ramps up quite slowly, so you may easily bounce off by not seeing anything cool in first, say, 5 hours (I was very close to it). Mid recommendation. Lategame is terrible. The progression path is super narrow and the puzzles quality drops off big, they are in big part total bullshit. It has an exciting and grandiose finish with good puzzles, but what precedes it makes it not worth it. Not recommend at all. All in all, a B tier game for me (cause it's an average of S tier and D tier).