germany portion of this puzzle was dumb and makes very little sense other than guessing.

The framing narrative, voiceover, and music made me fall in love with this cozy room before I had even embarked on the very first puzzle destination.

Have yet to play the second collab, but I hope the 'wanderer' finds love.

So good. I love it.

@Monkey_Chicka. That is a strange bug. I just checked this, and all is working correctly. Turning off music will turn off the background music. Additionally, the music box puzzle will override room music anyway and only the puzzle's music will play when working with the puzzle. If it helps, the puzzle is not dependent on hearing anyway, as all puzzles were made with full accessiblity in mind. The puzzle is in what you see, not what you hear.

This map is so great but I cannot turn off the background music so I can only hear the music puzzle in Germany. I have tried every combination I can think of in the options and I am going crazy trying to do the music puzzle with the loud background music.

Without a doubt the most refined map I've played on Escape Sim. So well polished is its art, game, and sound design, that the devs could easily (and SHOULD) package this up as a DLC and send the proceeds to its contributors.

What a wonderful celebration of this community's craftsmanship.

Super geil!

thank you golgoth! Yes, some of the puzzles are hard, we hoped to have a variety of difficulties so that all types of players would get enjoyment from this map.

Excellent room.
Difficulty : Very hard.

@Röhrio: Humboldt's travels are a purely logical puzzle, which should require no guessing of any kind. If you have trouble interpreting the hints, please refer to the in-game walkthrough (press H), which contains explanations of the harder hints. The rest of them should be very obvious. If you still feel that any of the hints are unclear, please provide some details so I can improve them.

Humboldt's riddle is awful. Theres nothing to hint at what may be the answer, its just lucky guessing.

Great stuff but some of the Germany puzzles were really difficult compared to the others.

What's behind the door??!

@s.n.arly set your lighting settings off of "fast" That causes that particuliar issue.

We're having a glitch in Thailand. The spotlight of the lanterns is not working. Instead of a distinct spot, the entire painting/artwork lights up and we can not fine tune enough to be successful.

MY BEETHOVEN PICTURE FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR!

@Kiku: Yes, that is definitely a false positive. The background music in Germany is CC3 and it’s part of the YouTube audio library. Here are the references that you can use to get it unmuted:

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303

https://youtu.be/YE7NHdEANE4

Nice room! My friend and I enjoyed it a lot. Something I'd like to share is that some part of the BGM in the Germany level is getting flagged on Twitch for copyright (probably a false positive). I was streaming this room last night and part of the VOD was muted when I checked it this morning.

Yes it’s playable in multiplayer. (The Steam Workshop only gives the option of single or multiplayer) most rooms marked single player are perfectly fine in multiplayer

I noticed the other Collab games were for 2+ players. Will this one be available in multiplayer too?

thanks silver! What color puzzle? The logic puzzle in Germany?

One of the best workshop maps I've ever played. Super high quality. Color puzzle didn't make sense to me. Even after reading the solution.

An amazing high quality map!

loved the museum room, excited for this one

@Withakay: yes, that is correct. The language is completely nonsensical, but I specifically made an effort to make it sound like German (I’m German myself).
We decided early in development that we wanted to have no language puzzles in the game in order to have a more accessible map. So I took that as a challenge to make a language puzzle without using an actual language.

Very well done room overall. I feel like I'm getting gaslit on the Germany world though. Was the "German" language puzzle just entirely made up to sound German without actually just using German vocabulary?

POGGERS MAP

Was very fun. Thank you all.

@tabbcatssidy: they're all rooms made by collabers: Quantum Quests by Wollo, Devilish Diorama (I & II) by Zesty, Inside by Franch, Immortal Canvas by Robin, Whispering Tides by Cryptic1, A Night in Tokyo by Dr Krank, Wrong Party by GG3L, Not Another Dinner Party by k8sparrot, Laundry Day by Namo Krub, Portrait of a Young Man by apa games, and Eccentric Studio by me.

Loved the room! Does anyone happen to know which rooms are being referenced in the newspaper? I'd love to play them, too!

just freaking awesome !

it has not been officially announced. Rough estimate is late Fall for Vol 2. There should be a trailer for it soonish though :D

I'm not sure if this was announced or posted elsewhere, but is there a timeline on when the next volume will be released?

Thanks Pankake101!

Hey everyone! Here is our full walkthrough/playthrough of this map for those of you that are interested. Hopefully it helps you all out! Great job to all the creators who put the work in for this collaboration! :D

https://youtu.be/yqcthVgAY_Y

Was really nice

this game should've been fun, its a great idea and looks really good, but the puzzle were a little too far out. Thailand puzzles were easy and fun, but Greece and Germany were too much. I didn't even make it to Italy before giving up. I also had to restart several times because items got lost in the floor.

@Brush$troke Thanks for the answers, and I look forward to Vol 2!

@jamyjet There are now skip options for returning players to use if unable to finish the entire room at one time.

@tuno the secret room is the end of the map. the door in there doesn't open. I can't say that any certain thing is the "last thing" in the secret room. There's several things to explore inside, in any order. lamp mini puzzle and then play the record/use the QR code, find the cat, release the blooper gas, check out the tool wall, box below it, the laptop, and read that newspaper for clues about Vol 2

@Zesty Mordant My question is about the door with the keyhole in the tokendoor room. If I play the record is this game complete?

You know, I'll give it to some of the comments that some of the puzzles in this first volume were a bit more obscure/complex than the typical community made room, and I'll admit, I needed to reference the hints at least a few times just for a quick nudge in the right direction (that water puzzle just didn't click in my brain), but as a whole, I appreciate this room for being different and pushing me to stretch my brain.

@rotdhizon Can you share what exactly is "buggy?"

Not a fan, so buggy that my friend and I have been unable to even get close to finishing. Some of the puzzles are obscure enough where we had to use hints. Downvote from me.

@jamyjet we are working on getting a sort of checkpoint system set up in the next day or so. I'll leave another comment when that is updated.

@tuno The token door opens when all tokens are collected. Does it not for you?

I didnt like the german puzzle room because of its low difficulty but high complexity puzzles. The method to solve it is pretty easy but there are so many steps involved and checking again and again that it takes a lot of time. The rest were great.

It was a very fun room!
I have a question about the token room. Does the last door not open?

I wanted to download this but noticed the 2 hour play time. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I can't commit to playing 2 hours in one session. Is there any sort of checkpoint system or way to jump to specific rooms?

The mention of cats in the secret room is giving you teasers of the upcoming volumes the blurred photos and "have you read the news?" (newspaper spotlight article)