The Happy Escape 11 1.0

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator, Tesshi-E, became known for short, bite-sized escape room games. Let's look at a work of his - The Happy Escape 11.

To play The Happy Escape 11, you have to unzip all the files into a folder. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

The game starts you off with a cutscene to let you know what the premise is. You play as a character that's invited by a girl to a music room so she can play a song for you, but when you get there, nobody's there and you have to find ten coins to get out. The graphics are as beautiful as always and gives the game an incredibly strong presentation.

Gameplay is very similar to other online escape games. You click on the sides of the screen to navigate around the screen, click on an object or door to zoom in on it, and have to figure out how to find ten happy coins to get out. However, there's still pixel hunting involved, which combined with the fact that the cursor never changes shape, makes the game tedious to play through.

All in all, The Happy Escape 11 is a great entry by Tesshi-e and really shows off the creator's strength in escape room game design.