I'm writing this review after completing this demo on max difficulty without a single hint. The biggest problem this game has is pixel hunting. It should've died in the 90s, there is no rewarding challenge in guessing where the developer hid an object, clicking over each slide a million times. Modern games tend to display nearest active areas with circles, clearly highlighting active objects among thousands of inactive ones. Most of the time I had to spent on searching things and this was the most unpleasant part, in fact, I consider this as the unnecessary stretching of game time.

The puzzles are not that difficult, but some of them require a "more thorough approach", which is not bad for a puzzle game, as long as the puzzle has one obvious way to be solved. The "laces" puzzle completely breaks this concept, as there are several different ways to count the lines and triangles, which the developer apparently didn't consider, and the puzzle essentially boils down to a dull brute-forcing the options. The puzzle with fuses is also falling apart - you can spend a decent amount of time, trying to solve without an additional fuse, since nothing points that it is needed and you can only find out about it by wandering around the location, accidentally finding it. But in general, it is funny to read other reviews about the difficulty, where some say how difficult everything is, and others say - it's easy.

The plot here is an excuse for the puzzles and has absolutely no value. Why on earth would a park ranger investigate missing tourists when this is a police duty? It would be possible to explain the motivation, if somehow one of his relatives had disappeared, but his actions can hinder the investigation by spoiling evidence, for which he can go to jail.

Overall it's not bad for a free game, but if this game is intended as a demonstration of the subsequent paid games, this isn't something I want to spend my money on.

First off, the graphics are excellent, the story is engaging and I am anxious to play the next chapter. I know some have commented on the puzzles being too easy or too hard or that they make no sense. Playing a game like this, you have to look past some "things". Almost ALL of the games of this type have puzzles that one person will say makes no sense while another might disagree.

Yes, some of these puzzles were a stretch in this first chapter, for instance, one puzzle has a "-2 Amp" fuse... that's most certainly NOT the way fuses work, or amperage for that matter, but anyhow... I played this on "Hard" and while I did get stumped a few times, I eventually had that "Ah Ha" moment and then the puzzle wasn't that bad. This is refreshing from other games where they have a "Hints" button on the screen ALL THE TIME or a game where the puzzles are so dumbed-down it requires no thought whatsoever. Games like these, at one time, didn't care if they frustrating the player, the puzzles were MEANT to make you think. Many of today's "puzzle" games are afraid to make a player truly think for fear of frustrating them, thus making today's mainstream short-attention spanned player stop playing at the first hard puzzle who then goes and leaves a negative review because the game made them think...