The House of Da Vinci

I love playing these high quality escape room type games. This one is just as fun and difficult as the room series. Highly recommend this game. About to start part 2… wish me luck😃

Its a good game but is not worth 4 for such a short game if this game goes on sale for 99cents then it would be an alright game

LAST UPDATE: THE GAME HAS BEEN DELETED!!! I’m asking Apple for a refund, three days of fighting to control it, now can not finish the game using walk through, no amount of help will cure this game of it’s issues. Blue Brain, reprogram your thinking process. So you didn’t want to wait for “The Room” to make another game, you thought you could do better. Go back to the schematics. Really look at what kind of game you have created. Are all these five star reviews from friends and relations? Wow, those one star reviews are all spot on. Please! This is absolutely the worse game experience I’ve ever suffered through in 20 years on the net. It can’t be played in any normal sense of the word. If you want HOURS and house of swinging randomly all over your screen over and over and over. Have fun. I’m so done with this. I will make sure never to purchase anything from Blue Brain again, I’m suspicious of paid for reviews. UPDATE: excuse this rambling review, it was written over several days of frustration to the point of tears. What a mess! At one point in this review I highly recommend this game, I no longer stand with that belief. After playing for days, using a You Tube Video to help, the frustration level is through the roof! I also said I would not compare this to The Room. Well I am now doing so, to save anyone from the belief this is going to be that wonderful smooth experience! It behaves entirely different, and not in a good way. I really tried to separate the two for their own merits. A lot of work goes into the creation of these games. The frustration lies with how this game operates. Some things in a scene are barely in view of the player and are extremely hard to navigate too. I flew through The Room games smooth and quickly, though their level of difficulty is a bit harder than these games. What makes this game so difficult and frustrating is the navigation. You have to be extremely precise, as to where the player touches the screen, it will swing all over the screen, completely missing where you so carefully touched. One hint has been stuck for over an hour, even though I completed the task in question. Another weird quirk is while you are trying to figure out a quest, suddenly it just pops into the right position, or suddenly completes with out trying. The puzzle would be pretty simple if the controls worked, but, I literally spent most of the time trying to control the wild swings. This is a bi polar game. The names of things are miss labeled as to what I know them as. So you are looking for something that is not there, or it is called by a name I’m not familiar with. The clues are so far off from what needs to be done. They are zero help. I have played all of “The Room” games. Not here to compare, just saying, that’s what brought me here. The biggest issue, other than navigation is the almost complete blackness in large areas of the game. This game is so dark, dimmed to the point of being uncomfortable to play in some areas of the game, I simply couldn’t see a task to complete because it blended into the blackness of a black hole in the time space continuum. So dark it hinders the ability to accomplish the tasks required to play. That’s with my 12.9 iPad with a 1000 Nits of brightness. I simply can’t get past the beginning of this game on any other device I own because of how dark, literally black in some areas of this game. The other big issue is it is continually locks up my device, where I have to do a hard start to play again. The graphics are fantastic. Sometimes the hints are “late for work”. In other words you get a hint after you have completed the task. Which is kind of pointless. So far I’m finding it very entertaining. This is fairly easy to figure out, just the right mix of not too difficult and not too easy. UPDATE: Four stars have now been deducted, after several days of giving this all I could. The issues mentioned have left me in the dark and hating this game. Bottom line? You purchase it, you own it. I love that concept. One more remark on how dark this game is, it’s beyond being comfortable to see. Go into this knowing that. There is a walk through video on You Tube, if you are stuck, I would not be stuck at any point other than the quests required blend into literally black, when you have to find a place you are required to place one of the instruments, it’s so black there is no differentiation between that device and the back ground. It simply cannot be seen in some areas of this game. I suggest lightening the entire game a few nits. It’s miserable playing in pitch blackness of space. Other than the blackness there is very little ability to control where you wish to go, it just swings wildly and quickly, far, far away from where you intended to be. You have to try over, and over, and over the same movement to get somewhere. I feel I just threw my money in the garbage. Go get The Room. Makes this look like a joke. Pass on this.

This and the room are the only good iOS games

I finished the Room series and absolutely loved it, so I bought this game since it seemed like the next best thing. It’s obvious that a lot of thought and care went into it, and the artwork is gorgeous. But the puzzles are boring, repetitive, unintuitive, and/or tedious, and the intricate devices are all so similar that it doesn’t really matter what task you’re on or what room you’re in, they’re all just castle models or gears or tubes of liquid or more gears. The controls and camera angels are often jerky or wonky (at least on an iPad), the lens often glitched, and the hints are very slow and often useless, especially since they are frequently a step or two behind what you’ve been trying. There just isn’t enough logical progression to make the games make sense or to feel like you’re piecing together a bigger picture instead of just wandering around waiting for a clue or checking a walkthrough. Quite a few puzzles are so baroque and tedious that I solved them through brute force, just twisting dials or whatever until it worked because it wasn’t possible to discern a pattern. Others, oddly, are just busywork with no thought or strategy required. Too often you finally crack a tough puzzle and… nothing happens. No payoff or progression, just a long wait for the next hint to pop up. The standards set by The Room are sky high, so I don’t expect another game to be that great. But Da Vinci, while beautiful and sometimes clever, was so frustrating and tedious and unfair to the player that I had to force myself to finish it to justify the purchase price. Maybe the sequels are better?

Hints didn’t help. No way to find out how to move forward, no help available.

El peor juego que he comprado!!! Solo tire mi dinero!!!! 😡

It's super restrictive so even when you can clearly see an item, you can't interact with it till they decide. I would recommend The Room series, this just feels like a frustrating waste of time when none of the puzzles or hints make barely any sense. But really it's the interactions that ruin this game for me.

I have played all of these and they are IMO the best ; along side the Rusty Lake games. My only negative is that voices (in the english language versions ) have British accents. Are we supposed to be in Italy?

It's realy one good game . I leave one room use 3 hours.