The Happy Escape 9 1.0

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator, Tesshi-E, became known for short, bite-sized escape room games. Let's look at a work of his - The Happy Escape 9.

To play The Happy Escape 9, you have to unzip all the files into a folder. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

The game has no story, but it's forgivable because online escape games tend to be focused on gameplay and puzzle design. It starts you off inside a hotel room. The hotel in question is actually called the Escape Hotel, which is pretty on the nose - there are a ton of puzzles and locks around. The graphics are as beautiful as always, and gives the game an incredibly strong presentation.

Gameplay is very similar to other online escape games. You click on the sides of the screen to navigate around the screen, click on an object or door to zoom in on it, and have to figure out how to find all the happy coins necessary to get out. However, there's still pixel hunting involved, which combined with the fact that the cursor never changes shape, makes the game tedious to play through.

All in all, The Happy Escape 9 is a great entry by Tesshi-e and really shows off the creator's strength in escape room game design.