![]() And the story – while totally predictable on the one hand – is well paced and presented and keeps you engaged and rooting for the heros throughout.Īside from finding items to help you advance your escape and the story, you will also frequently meet up with puzzles. Fortunately Royal Trouble delivers – the protagonists are quirky and likeable, and the odd characters they meet along the way add loads of flavor. This is a much more engaging style of play – but requires a compelling story and characters to make it enjoyable. So you need to break down elements of a crumbled stairway, find some binding elements and build a makeshift ladder to help you scale back up to the previous room.Īlthough much of the game has you searching for items in rooms, it is very different from traditional ‘hidden object’ games and closer to ‘Sam & Max’ style adventures – each item needs to have a particular purpose directly related to whatever you are doing at the time. For example, you make it out of one area by scaling down a chain rope, but soon realize that you need an item you saw in the previous room – but the chain is too high to reach. You control one character at a time, but as the game progresses the back-and-forth becomes much more interactive as you exchange items to help one another using the dumb-waiter that connects several rooms in the castle.Įach character finds themself stuck in a room looking to advance towards escape, needing to locate items to help facilitate moving to the next room. The first interesting gameplay twist is that you are playing as BOTH characters! You start off helping Loreen and Nathaniel individually get out of their cells, but after Loreen gets stuck after tricking her way into the one-person lift, Nathaniel eventually works to help her. But quite soon the two realize that they MUST work together to gain their freedom. When the two first meet, there is distrust and antagonism since they do not know each other. The constant goal is to escape, but there are constant obstacles and difficult challenges that need to be solved. Royal Trouble is a point & click adventure game that tells the story of a prince and princess – Loreen and Nathaniel – who awake to find themselves imprisoned alone in cells without any memory of how they got there or even where they are. Solve the mystery of their captivity, and watch love blossom in this charming adventure game with fun twists and turns.Įxplosive combination of mystery, romance and fun! Find suitable items to help them manage their inventories, solve puzzles, and play outstanding mini-games in search of answers. ![]() Search through the castle for exits and avoid being caught. Unfortunately, they can’t stand each other! Take control of both the Prince and Princess and help this hilarious bickering duo escape from their dastardly kidnappers. In this critically acclaimed adventure quest, help two charming royal heirs escape from a secluded island! Princess Loreen and Prince Nathaniel find themselves locked in a dungeon without any idea of how they got there. Fortunately this is an entirely different sort of casual adventure game – and an absolute blast that you simply MUST try! Let’s take a look! Even after reading the description of Royal Trouble I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect in terms of gameplay – and frankly I was nervous that I was getting burnt out on hidden object games after Spirit of Wandering (though ‘Letters from Nowhere 2’ tells me otherwise).
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