The House of Da Vinci 3 in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Amazing - I am one happy camper.

I have not been disappointed at all with this latest release of Davinci. So far there have been no glitches, issues, complaints. I am on my 4th evening of playing (about 3-4 hours per night - best guesstimate) and I am pretty sure that I am on the last chapter. I have depended on the hint system a lot more in this release than in past releases. I try very hard not to use hints, but I found that this game was a bit less intuitive in parts. Sometimes I just needed a nudge to figure out where to focus my efforts but a couple of times I needed full out help. All in all, the game was fantastic! The graphics were great. I enjoyed the plot (which I usually dont care about), and I did not encounter any glitches on my 9th gen iPad. The movement of the character wasnt as smooth as previous games but it did not impede the game in any way as you typically focused on bigger areas in this game and less on secret compartments etc. All in all, fantastic. Thanks for a great game. Please continue making similar releases in the future. Edit - game took 10 hours to play. Just finished. Still thrilled with it!!

★★★★★ An incredible end to a fantastic trilogy, a must have for puzzle lovers

It’s a rare sight to see a game series of this caliber available on mobile without drastic cuts to quality. I discovered this series during the pandemic and fell in love with it. I bought the second game immediately when it came out and played multiple times. Scrolling through the App Store yesterday I was ecstatic to see the third iteration was out. The story is captivating, the puzzles are genuinely difficult and require you to think three steps ahead and sometimes behind ;). The graphics aren’t great sometimes, and touch controls can be annoying on mobile, but honestly I didn’t notice. Tie all this together with a beautiful soundtrack, amazingly satisfying sound effects, and this is one game that everyone who enjoys puzzle games needs to play as soon as possible. I cannot recommend this game enough and anxiously await the developers’ next release.

★★★★★ A little glitchy

Have played all the da Vinci games so far and have enjoyed them. 1 and 2 were far better though. Had similar problems to other gamers, my profile would disappear. I’ve discovered that you have to force quit the game twice before the profile appears again. This was after starting the game from the beginning once already, luckily I wasn’t too far into it before my discovery. The save point was quite frustrating. You can’t continue where you left off within a puzzle and have to start it from scratch. Also, if my screen timed out, or if I switched apps momentarily, the game would crash or restart; therefore making me have to force quit twice for the profile to appear and redo the puzzle. A little tedious. There are also places where the graphics in geometric shapes would flash green randomly, particularly in Borgia’s hideout. The story line has been great and the puzzles mostly fun, however some puzzle were less intuitive that the first 2 games. You really have to guess what is expected of you. You end up with a lot of trial and error and using hints. Would have been better without all the glitches.

★★★★★ Beautiful

We need more games like this in the App Store. The game is beautifully crafted with no detailed gone unnoticed. The game provides an immersive experience with none of the distractions that other games come with (e.g. pop ups, in app purchases, etc.). Anytime I see this game or one of “The Room” series drop, I purchase it as soon as possible. To the developers: Please continue to produce these beautiful games in the same fashion you have. Please know that I am willing to pay a premium upfront to maintain the integrity of the experience. I wish this games came out more frequently, but I understand it takes a while to craft such a beautiful piece of art. Side note, I noticed that the App Store states that this game is 9+ years old, you may want to look into that as it may detour some people from purchasing.

★★★★★ A little worse than OK

They seem to have run out of ideas puzzle wise. Just seems kind of stale. Story wise, how much increasingly difficult to believe da Vinci content can one squeeze out? That’s all fine, actually, it’s still a puzzle game. But the interface is terrible: the hints cannot be dismissed and stick around for many more seconds than they take to read; on a phone, that’s an inexcusable slowdown given how much screen space is used up, that’s an example of lack of foresight. The level design is also lacking: you might be in a large room with lots of stuff but you can only go one or two ways and they’re not marked; or a point of interest is clearly out of range given human reach so one might think there’s a ladder or something… but no, double click and you’ll magically fly to reach it. All and all these games always played second (or fourth, really) fiddle to the room but they were at least engaging enough to get thru; even if entirely forgettable. This… this is just not engaging.

★★★★★ Bug in cave with crane

I can’t complete the game because of a bug with attaching the hook on the crane to the loop on the trapdoor in the cave. I’ve spent 15 minutes just trying to get the hook through the loop. The graphics here are bad, as the hook moves through the solid part of the loop, glitching through it, and it’s flat-out impossible to get it in the loop. I’d love to finish the game, but this is making it impossible. Can you either fix it or refund me? Edit: that hook is AWFUL. I restarted the chapter, suffered through that horrible opening-the-cave puzzle again, forgot about the bag, and now I can’t attach the hook to the bag. I’m done with this buggy game. WAY too expensive for such a game-breaking bug. I recommend you just make the hook click on to something with no manipulation, since this is simply ridiculous. Don’t buy this game until they’ve done some bug fixing, y’all. Edit: Well, the crane bug is fixed, but now I can’t get the crane to stop once I start pushing it. It just keeps pushing. Sigh. I had hoped to finish the game and revise the stars.

★★★★★ Hoping for Di Vinci 4

This is a great game! If you like Myst and Riven, this game is for you. Clockwork puzzles, needing to find unique keys and lever, putting tools together, doing something in one time frame that effects another…very engaging. As is the story. Game and story are well thought out. I played part 1 and 2 twice, about a year and a few months after playing them the first time, and while I remembered the rooms oncei got in there, the puzzle to solve everything was new to me all over again because I couldn’t remember how to solve them, so you can play these games more than once like they’re brand new. I really hope they come out with either a part 4 game of this or perhaps a whole new series because these folks know how to make a very enjoyable game!!! Great job, guys! Thank you!