Release Date: May 6, 2016
A tongue-in-cheek action game with logic puzzle elements, developed by English studio Runestone Games, and a combination of five separate episodes, released under the same title for mobile platforms. In Mystery Castle you play as a wizard called Monty, who is tasked with protecting the eponymous five castles from the forces of evil.
Mystery Castle for PC and XONE is a tongue-in-cheek logic puzzle game created by English studio Runestone Games. It's also a combination of five episodes released under the same title for mobile platforms and the first production by this developer to be released for PC Windows and an eight generation console.
You play as a wizard named Monty, who's tasked with protecting five Mystery Castles from the forces of evil. Using the elements of the environment and your own wit, you have to outsmart your enemies and clear the castles.
Mystery Castle for PC and XONE is an oldschool logic puzzle game. It consists of 180 levels taking place in five castles, which you can complete in any order. The locations are two-dimensional and seen from an isometric point of view. Throughout the game, you solve puzzles, which usually require you to move around various objects, such as chests. Apart form that, Monty uses some elements of the environment to find hidden passages or create new ones.
Every interaction with an object needs to be well-thought, as moving them around in an incorrect order may render it impossible to beat a level, thus forcing you to start it over. Moving on to the next stage is only possible after gathering several crystals, scattered around the location. The final hall of each castle houses a boss, the fight with which is quite challenging.
Mystery Castle for PC and XONE features cartoonish visuals. Its original version was created for mobile devices, which is obvious during the game, as it doesn't require even half of the capabilities of a console or a PC to work properly.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Xbox One
Developer: Runestone Game Development
Publisher: Runestone Game Development
Age restrictions: none
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System Requirements for Mystery Castle Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Dual Core 1.7 GHz, 1 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce 8800 GT or better, 350 MB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7/8.
Game Ratings for Mystery Castle Video Game.
Pure Xbox: 5 / 10 by Josephine Lawton
The premise and complexity of the puzzles, mixed with the cheery art style, point to an interesting puzzle experience but you may find that Mystery Castle a bit of an unrewarding drudge if you aren't really into the types of puzzles on offer. It's challenging at points and allows enough flexibility for you to skip stages that prove too perplexing which makes it accessible for most, but there's such a flatness to the level completion that there's no real rush of excitement when you solve a particularly difficult puzzle. The vast number of levels available also acts as more of a demotivator than a blessing and it could be argued that just sometimes, less is more. There's certainly not much wrong with Mystery Castle, but it's not doing anything to make it stand out from the crowd either.
Rectify Gaming: 8 / 10 by Khris Golder
Avoid if you are easily frustrated or bored by slow-paced puzzle solvers. Play if you love a challenge and are looking for 10+ hours of gameplay out of an Xbox Arcade puzzle solver.
CGMagazine: 5.5 / 10 by Chris Carter
Mystery Castle as some clever ideas and gets pretty good later on.
Average score from votes.