Christmas Mini Escape from Neutral review

When it comes to point and click room escape games, Japanese developer Neutral is top of the line. The team releases just a few escape games each year, but when one does come around, it looks great, plays great, and offers a fair amount of tough challenges. This time around, Christmas Mini Escape (a natural follow-up to Christmas Escape 3) is a banner game released to celebrate the holidays. Even though the screen size may be small, the game is quite lengthy and serves up plenty of holiday-related puzzles to get you ready for presents!

As with any room escape game, one premise is a given: you’re trapped somewhere, and you want to get out. In this case, you’re in a decorated room filled with Christmas cheer. Looking around, you’ll notice a Christmas tree, a stocking, a bed, some drawers, and a conspicuously locked door. In fact, there are quite a few conspicuously locked items, but only one key in sight. And that key is in a bottle behind iron bars inside the fireplace! You’ve got no choice but to rummage around, turning over every door and lifting every potted plant to find things you can use to get out.

As with all Neutral games, puzzles are almost never straightforward. You must pick up several items before you can even use one of them, and in order to use most of them, you’ll have to decipher a few clues. The best way to win? Click everywhere. Every corner, every item, just below every item, everywhere. If you ever get stuck there’s probably something you’re missing, so you’ll just have to go back and search the room again! But since everything looks so pristine, it’s all the more entertaining to do so.

Really, the only detractor to Christmas Mini Escape is the small screen size. It’s a banner game, after all. Even though it’s little, the gameplay is big, and this little point and click adventure will test your puzzle solving abilities as well as any other escape game out there!

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Top Three Brand New Free Christmas Games!

There’s nothing like getting free stuff during the holidays! While everyone else is out spending money, worrying about money, and wanting more money, you can sit at home, smug and cozy, playing your free Christmas-themed Flash games. Not only that, but we’ve got three unique genres below, letting you entertain yourself whether you like a calm, thoughtful game, or if you’d rather rock out with some metal Christmas carols!

Hide Snowman – Snowmen are the coolest characters of the winter season. Yes, that’s a pun. And it’s a terrible one. But if you assume it’s true, Hide Snowman makes a lot more sense! Your job is to remove and add a few blocks to keep the snowman’s head safe from burning coals. Sounds easy, but boy is it anything but that!

Santa Rockstar 4 – We’ve already established that snowmen are cool, but did you know Santa rocks? He does, and quite literally, too! This free Christmas game borrows from the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises to create a monumentally awesome rhythm game. Just press the keys at the right time to play the metal version of popular Christmas songs, then jump on your desk chair and pretend it’s the 80s and you’re a friggin’ rock star!

Find Dwarfs in Christmas – Well known for its series of point and click games, Nekonote has released a charming little Christmas game that plays just like a room escape! Move around the snowy scenery, clicking snowmen, checking with cows, and trying to solve a few puzzles so you can locate all ten dwarves.

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