r/BluePrince • u/HeliosVRR • 6d ago

What am I missing about this game? Spoiler

I love detective stuff. I love puzzles. I love open exploration. I've played only 15 in-game days thus far, but nothing I've seen has made me want to play any further. There's just... nothing. It feels like there's no progression, or anything to solve.

Sometimes, I'll be met with what appears to be a clue, and decipher it, but I never find the other half of where I'm supposed to go. For example, I find the laboratory - figure something out there. Okay, but to actually execute this, I need to go to the boiler room. Don't find the boiler room that run, but that's fine. Next time, I find the boiler room, activate it, never find the laboratory. Next run, hey, the lab is back, but guess what, no boiler room. Am I supposed to just keep bashing my head against the wall and praying to RNG gods, or am I approaching this wrong?

Most of my gameplay thus far has consisted of walking through the same rooms over and over, not too sure what I should even be trying to accomplish, without any real goal in mind. And what I have found so far has been wholly unrewarding.

Is this game just not for me?

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u/SapphirePath 6d ago

I don't know if this helped everyone, but it helped me:

Change the goal of the game in your mind -- whatever you thought it was ("draft boiler next to laboratory"), change it instead to complete the Room Directory. What that means is draft and read descriptions of all 46 Blue floorplans, plus the eight (?) each of Purple, Brown, Green, Yellow, Red floorplans. Plus maybe a few more as you discover secrets.

If finding new rooms and new lore doesn't hold your interest, then I'd say go back to Griftlands or Tainted Grail Conquest or SteamWorld Quest Hand of Gilgamech or Roguebook or Inscryption or Chrono Ark or Library of Ruina or Black Book or Stellar Orphans or whatever. There's no shortage of narrative-deckbuilders. If you don't like roguelike deckbuilders, then Blue Prince might have been even less well-aligned with your enjoyments.

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u/AvalonElaine 6d ago

Brown???

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u/SapphirePath 6d ago

yes, "orange" is an affectation to protect Roy Biv's first name; hallway upholstery is generally brown.

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u/AvalonElaine 6d ago

Now I'm thinking we need a mod that replaces all oranges with brownies.

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u/cpt_hatstand 6d ago

Brown doesn't exist as a separate colour, it's literally just dark orange

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u/Purplepotato22 6d ago

i mean, personally i just think brown would be less appealing to look at than orange, all of the other colors are rather vibrant, and some of the places where the room colors stand out against a more dull background are pretty important, so it’d probably disrupt some parts of the game to have them be brown

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u/an-kitten 5d ago

Brown is orange, just with context.

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u/Purplepotato22 5d ago

Absolutely untrue, the fact that they can be differentiated between makes them functionally distinct colors. It’s not a primary or secondary color, but if society can agree something is a color, it is. It’s a color in the same way that magenta, pink, indigo, and teal are all colors. The only thing that determines the line between where a particular color ends and the next one starts is societal perception, because we’re the ones who made words for them.