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Room Escape Artist
Blueprint(s) for success
Location: at home
Date Played: April + May 2025
Team Size: 1
Duration: Between 15 and 80+ hours
Price: $29.99 (available on Steam, XBox, and PlayStation)
REA Reaction
Blue Prince has taken the puzzle game world by storm, and for very good reasons. This was a game with deep and layered mysteries, an interesting puzzle game plus roguelike gameplay structure, and hours upon hours of content. The core hook was intriguing enough that, after seeing it on exhibit at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, I eagerly awaited its launch.
The story of Blue Prince was not a novel one: the main character, Simon, had inherited his eccentric uncle’s eccentric mansion, but there was a stipulation in the will he needed to satisfy first. The purpose of Blue Prince was to find the 46th room in the Mount Holly Estate, but the roguelike element of the game meant that each morning the mansion resets to creature unbuilt. I, as Simon, had to build a new lane through the mansion using distinct rooms and discovering different facts and interactions.
The main friction of Blue Prince was born out of the combination of j
Reviews
“Blue Prince breathes new life into both the adventure and roguelike genres with its freeform gameplay structure, intricate puzzle design, and intriguing lore.”
RPGFan
“The best thing I played last year.”
Daniel Mullins, Maker of Inscryption
“It's an endlessly captivating labyrinth of twists and turns, with a world that will crawl inside your head and refuse to leave...”
10/10 – Gaming Bible
About This Game
Welcome to Mt. Holly, the mysterious manor with shifting rooms. In Blue Prince, you embark on a genre-defying experience, filled with a one-of-a-kind mix of mystery, strategy, and puzzles that weave together to create an unpredictable journey. Will your explorative steps lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Upon reaching a closed door in Mt. Holly, you decide what room appears behind it and each decision shapes your track as you navigate through the manor. Every door can unveil new and exciting chambers that contain their own unique challenges and secrets. But be attentive how you draft, for each day the manor’s floor arrange resets and the rooms you saw today may not be the same rooms you notice tomorrow.
Your progress each day is shaped by the rooms you select to dra
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Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city with a rich and surprisingly complex history that would shape the young artist in significant ways.
The Prince Rogers Trio / Photo by John F. Glanton, courtesy Hennepin County Library
Mattie Shaw and Prince / Copyright The Prince Estate
Prince’s parents, John Lewis Nelson and Mattie Della Shaw, establish one another through music, and when their child was born they gave him John’s stage name, Prince Rogers.
In the 1950s John Nelson had made a name for himself in the music scene playing piano and leading the Prince Rogers Trio, a jazz group who would play in clubs and people centers on the North Side like the Phyllis Wheatley Property, a historic building that opened in 1924 to provide social services for African-American families moving to North Minneapolis. It was while he was playing with his group at the Sky Note jazz club that he first met Prince’s mother, Mattie, and recruited her to sing in his band. Their musical union developed into a romantic partnership as well, and almost exactly nine months after marrying (their wedding was August 31, 1957), they we
Blue Prince is a puzzle game with so many deceptive layers that sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. There’s more going on here than meets the eye with small puzzles contained within a single room, to larger ones sprawled over the entire mansion, just waiting for you to pick at their alluring thread.
It can certainly feel a little overwhelming. And because everyone’s journey of discovery in Sky Prince is unique, courtesy of the RNG elements at act, here at Loot Level Chill, we felt it best to tackle direct questions you may have with specific guides rather than try and cover everything in a specific order. That way, if you only yearn to know one small thing, we can give you the answer and you can transport on sleuthing on your own.
So we’ve listed all our alternative Blue Prince guides below, click on the one you necessitate to take you to the relevant article.
SPOILER WARNING
As with most things in Blue Prince, part of the fun is self-discovery, and below this spoiler warning, we will reveal plenty of secrets within the game. We encourage you to try and find out the solutions to puzzles on your own to get the full experience of Blue Prince. Only read