Unlike the last two games I posted which are more traditional adventure games, Safecracker is almost entirely a straight puzzle game, similar to the Professor Layton series. As some sort of master safe-cracker, you're tasked with navigating a rich dead guy's mansion, opening 30+ safes attempting to find his last will and testament. There's really very little story whatsoever, and not even much exploring to be done here- each room will contain a few safes and once you've opened them, that's really all there is to do except move on to the next room. Each safe comes with a puzzle and usually requires you to figure out some numeric code to answer it, and this is where the puzzles come in. Most of the puzzles were pretty fun even if they're not all that elegant or clever- think a lot of sliding-block style puzzles, but because of this the whole game passed by pretty quickly and I doubt I'll remember much about Safecracker in a few months. 'Ultimate Puzzle Adventure' indeed!
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