Kamotokamotokamo's escape game Strange Little Searching may look simple, but it's simple in a way that makes you go, "Oh. Oh. Oooooh. I see what you did there. Clever girl." You're trapped in a room that appears to be mostly featureless apart from a bit of furniture and some boxes propped up on tables, and unlike many escape games you may notice that this one doesn't appear to have a door, which is typically essential to the whole "escaping" part of the formula. The cursor will change when you can interact with something, but you'll still want to search everywhere since some items or viewpoints are very well hidden. Click an item in your inventory to highlight it, and you'll be ready to try to use it wherever you want. Though the room may appear mostly empty, a little bit of experimentation will reveal some pretty big secrets...
Escape is a pretty popular genre of games, and with so many flooding the internet every single week, it can be hard to do something to stand out, and yet Strange Little Searching has done just that. Its core mechanic isn't exactly "Bwaaaaaaah?!" levels of surprise, but it's cleverly implemented in a way that encourages players to experiment and, well, think outside the box. Some of the things you're expected to know or figure out how to do are admittedly a little unintuitive depending on how your brain works, and something about the sparse design makes getting stuck all the more frustrating due to the lack of feedback. Strange Little Searching is nowhere near as obvious with its clues as some other games, but with a little but of imagination and ingenuity, you'll find the way out is very real. Strange Little Searching is a great idea that injects a bit of whimsy into your typical escape game, making it a welcome addition to anyone's day indeed.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough
The shelf
You start facing the shelf. Take the signboard, the decorative box and the screwdriver in the cabinets.
Look that one of the cabinets needs a key.
The four boxes
Turn right. Look there's four boxes. The first is empty, the second has a miniature of the shelf, the third shows a miniature of the fours boxes and the fourth a blue square.
Take the shelf miniature off the second box. Turn left.
Where's the shelf? Well you might understand that what you put in the box gets bigger out of it.
Click the hole in the middle of the wall. Take the stone key.
Decorative box
Go right. Put the decorative box in the fourth box. Go right again
Take a key on the window.
Click the box on the floor. Use the stone key to open it.Take the knife.
The desk
Go left. Click the first box and use the knife. Click the piece of paper to fold it.
Put the shelf in the second box again. Go left. Use the blue key to open the upper right cabinet.Take the desk.
Go right. Take the shelf off the second box and put the desk.
Go left. Click the hole near the roof. Take the matches.
Go right take the desk off and put the matches
Go left. Take the giant matches.
The door
Go left Put the giant matches above the hole on the floor. Click the door. Well we need a key to open it.
Go back twice and then left. There's a small door on the floor. Open it and get a cloudy key.
Go left and put the signboard in the fourth box. Go right. Remember that image.
The second room
Go right. Click the door and use the cloudy key.
Click the black box and use the screwdriver on the right side of it.
Put the blue paper in the box. Remember tha image of the signboard? Put the shelf in the box
Click the shelf. Then click the hole red colored above. Use the screwdriver on it.
You're out on a train?! hahahah
Posted by: Priscila Martins de Sousa
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September 21, 2014 12:37 PM