Fun Puzzles, Not Very Accessable – The Company Game Review

If you like puzzles, then this game may be for you. It has challenging but fair puzzles to solve, and I quite enjoy how it sometimes uses new information in previous puzzles to obtain new results. However, like many people that I’ve seen online, I’ve bumped into the issue of LVL22 - Run (which I will be spoiling). The level requires the user to reach and maintain a speed of 3.5m/s for quite a while. While an interesting idea in concept, it ends up blocking off content for some users. If you are trying to quarantine at home, don’t have easy access to a car or public transport, in a sketchy area, have no access to Cellular Service (as the speed is determined by distance traveled and not velocity of phone), or are playing at night and really don’t want to go for an impromptu 1 AM jog, well you’re boned. I personally live 20 min away from an area with working cell service, so you can understand why I’m a bit miffed. From reading other reviews, it seems like the developers are aware that players are running into this issue, but have not implemented any way to bypass this one level other than emailing them for the dev code that unlocks all the levels. If they implemented some sort of work around (ex placing a button/code in the hint screen of LVL22 that let you skip that one bit) that would raise my score to 4 or 5, but as is I can only give a 2 for giving me 21 of a promised +78 levels.
Review by PJ Salad on The Company Game.