Hello, all!
I am currently developing a horror game in which you will attempt to escape a map by doing puzzles while also trying to avoid a killer. I will not reveal too much about it. I am a bit stuck on ideas for some puzzles. Does anyone have some good ones?
One word riddle
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Different buttons you have to push that are around the maze to eventually unlock a door leading to one of the final puzzles.
Some parkour to a lever that does something.
One of those sliding puzzles where there is the one open space and everything has to slide in some way to finish the picture.
Those ice block puzzles like in LoZ.
Search YouTube for MysteryCaseFiles. It’s a puzzle game (not on roblox) with many creative puzzles. You can simplify it since they’re really hard but some are mini-puzzles.
What’s the “theme” of the horror game? Some details might help us think of ideas.
Cursed doors, some lead to another door, others lead to the next room/floor.
Long story short, you get grounded and your mom turns into a monster.
Sounds really cool!
The first puzzle could be something like this;
There are 3 symbols on a lock which opens a door to escape the house. The player must do chores in order to reveal these symbols.
Players must put dirty clothes found along the map into a laundry machine. Once all, let’s say, 3 clothes, are put into the machine, it will spin for ~15 seconds. After the clothes are done, the player will open the machine to reveal the first symbol and the label “1” on a shirt in the machine.
Second, the player must head to the kitchen. In the kitchen, the player will find a cloth on the counter nearby a sink that contains dirty dishes. The player must wipe all of the dirty dishes. The last dish the player wipes will reveal another symbol, along with the label “2” on the dish after being cleaned.
Lastly, the player will go to some bedroom with a dirty carpet. Inside a closet in the bedroom, there will be a vacuum cleaner. The player must suck up all of the grossness in the carpet. Once the carpet is clean, a symbol and the label “3” will be visible.
Household Chores simulator game
Thank you to everyone who replied! I will be sure to include some of these ideas.