Although there is not much to do apart from the game story of the game, interacting with different objects around you give you more detail about the school and enrich you with more lore of the game. The art style of the game is brilliant while the exploration is fun as well. This sudden transition of the story is good and you will actually love watching the environment change around you. The main plot of the game begins to unfold when different inventions of the founder of the school begin to operate on their own and thus the Sam and the duo comes into play as heroes as you puzzle your way to the end of the dark mystery. Dom’s father is also an inventor and you often get to fix his inventions for him because for some reason the inventor is not smart enough to fix them himself. You also have plenty of other people in the game however you will be mostly spending your time with Dom and Maya. Both of them will instantly remind you of Ron and Hermione from the Harry Potter franchise. Dom is a red-haired boy who is not very good at being smart while Maya is more of the brains of the group with the obvious answers to everything. As you spend time in your new academy, you make new friends with Dom and Maya. The game throws so many puzzles at your face that you will find it weird in real-life when your fridge does not throw a puzzle in your face when you go for a cold drink. I mean that even your bag unpacking is a puzzle mini-game. When I mentioned The Academy: The First Riddle is a puzzle game, I really meant it.Įverything in the game is done in the form of puzzles. After gaining admission to the school, you are settled in after your tour and then your normal routine begins in the school. There is the main puzzle that is required for game progression while if you are feeling lucky, you can try your luck at its advanced question as well which is optional but completing them surely gives you a sense of achievement that you are smarter than you actually think. Puzzles in The Academy: The First Riddle comes in two parts. After the initial puzzle, you are given your admission test which is a simple odd math question along with its bonus questions. This is a very simple puzzle however it is a very important one because it is setting your standard for the rest of the puzzles of the game. However, right before the very first exam, Sam is starting to solve puzzles such as finding the missing parts of a broken pencil. You step in the shoes of Sam who is taking his entrance exam as he is seeking admission to the academy. The Academy: The First Riddle starts off with a cool looking exam for your entrance to the school known as Albor’s Academy. This is our review of the Steam version of The Academy: The First Riddle in which we put on our smart hats and solve some puzzles while digging deep in a mystery. Their brand new title The Academy: The First Riddle takes its inspiration from two franchises that are pretty well-known to us, Professor Layton and Harry Potter. They are based in Croatia and are the developers behind the Faraway and The Birdcage franchises.

Subscribe to our newsletter to get updated and get more content like this.The Academy: The First Riddle is a brand new puzzle game by Pine Studio who is a pretty-established developer in the puzzle game genre.

Continue west until you reach the front door, and then click it.įor more riddle school speedrun of chapter 2 and chapter 3 make sure you check out our articles on these chapters through our homepage.

“I have to speak with the principal” & “I’d want to tell him a joke”

Go to the following website and click on the following link:.

Proceed to the teacher’s lounge on the north side of the building.

Walk east till you come across a chubby man asking for a biscuit.Walk east until you find a hall guard and present your hall pass to him.Hand over the feather duster, and he’ll hand over a $1 bill.Make your way east and inside the janitor’s closet.Take the feather duster from the trash bin and exit the room by clicking on it.Walk east and open the locker next to the fountain to get a hall pass.At the teacher’s table, click on the sharpener.Interact with the teachers, fool them, and confuse them so that you can make your way out of the school. In this game, you’re trying to get away from the monotony of school life. Riddle School is a mysterious and puzzle-solving game. So just follow the steps mentioned on the guide and complete the speedrun. In this guide we will talk about how you can complete or do the speedrun for Riddle School Chapter 1 with all the answers to the questions and item locations provided to you.

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