Sunday, 10th March 2024

Game Rose and Lotus: Petals of Memories
Released 2023
Developer 5minlab Corporation
Available Steam

Rose and Lotus: Petals of Memories is a point and click Adventure escape the house game based on a traditional Korean fairy tale. The evil stepmother from the fairy tale is now a psychiatrist after money. You play the elder sister and try to escape the house with the younger sister before the stepmother turns you into ghosts. In the original Korean fairy tale the sisters are ghosts, as to whether you're really playing a ghost in this game I'm not sure.

Escaping the house involves a lot of finding combinations to locks, and keys to safes etc. It will require careful observation (and at times guesswork for me). There is a slider puzzle, sigh. Though you gradually gain access to more of the house the solutions to puzzles are typically in the same room as the puzzle. Sometimes applying the solution is tricky.

The game saves automatically as you play, you either continue or start a new game from the main menu. The music was suitable, I would have missed it if it wasn't present but otherwise my mind just backgrounds the background music.

The graphic style I found very pleasing, simple but effective. I found the game involving if frustrating at points.