The Happy Escape 12 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 12.

To play The Happy Escape 12, 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 off with a cutscene to let you know that Santa has effectively kidnapped you so you can brew some good tea to go along with his cake as well as find ten coins. The graphics are as beautiful as always and gives the game an incredibly strong presentation.

Gameplay is very similar to pretty much all the other entries in the series. 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 12 is a great entry by Tesshi-e and really shows off the creator's strength in escape room game design.