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Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026

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Anyone play Blue Prince? Maybe I'm just in a Backroomsy mood, but I heard good things and it looks intriguing.

Big fan, I think its a great game. The only downside is that it has zero replayability. A large part of that is because you are pretty much required to take notes. Many of the puzzles are complex, and require several different rooms, in different configurations to solve, or even to get the requisite information to solve. Due to the RNG nature of the room spawns it requires several days to get that to happen, meaning you pretty much need to take notes. There are also several long term puzzles that require knowledge from throughout the game, so unless you have a eidetic memory, yeah take notes.

But I probably put a 100 or so hours into it between different modes and solving it to a level that I think is at least 90% completed. I think I got the final ending but the game is constructed in a way that it is kind of hard to tell.

I think I got the final ending but the game is constructed in a way that it is kind of hard to tell

Say where you got to (in spoiler tags) and I'll tell you

Ending: Past all the doors in the tunnel, there are 3 boxes, one has the blue prince book, one is empty, the other has a cutscene and a spiral

Extras:

  • I did all the throne stuff
  • Rune puzzles in the Sanctum

Not the end

Bespoke hints available on request

I assume it has something to do with the book tinting? Looking through my notes, that seems to be the only puzzle I knowingly had left. I got that I needed to use the watering can with distillery water on books from the library Looks like I never got around to doing it when I hit what I thought was the ending.

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