{"id":1171408,"date":"2026-02-13T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crWLWGoaAR8devtsEedJxj"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:17:06","slug":"it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"It took me 25 hours to &#8216;finish&#8217; puzzle strategy game Blue Prince\u2014and 15 hours after that I&#8217;m still uncovering new mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince\u2014and I&#8217;m talking about the first time I played a demo way back in March of 2024\u2014I noticed something interesting about one of its rooms.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say what it was that I noticed\u2014I&#8217;m going to be obnoxiously vague throughout this piece because I don&#8217;t want to spoil anything for anyone\u2014but it had to do with something I saw resting on a crowded shelf, a bit of decoration, clutter. I saw similar decorations in a few other rooms. &#8220;I bet that&#8217;s part of some puzzle,&#8221; I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have time to do anything about it in the demo, but when I played a nearly full build of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1569580\/Blue_Prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Prince<\/a> in August of last year, I noticed the same thing again. Even when I &#8220;finished&#8221; the game after 25 hours by reaching the elusive 46th room of the 45-room mansion, I didn&#8217;t uncover that decoration&#8217;s significance. I tested out one theory, but it didn&#8217;t pan out and nothing was ever revealed.<\/p>\n<p>I played through it again from the beginning for my <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/puzzle\/blue-prince-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Prince review<\/a> (I gave it a score of 92%, by the way), and I&#8217;ve continued playing even past that. Just the other night, now a full 40 hours after I&#8217;d finished the review, it finally happened. I solved one particular puzzle for the first time, which led me to a place I&#8217;d never been before, and while investigating this area I finally figured out the significance of that decoration I noticed over a year ago during my very first demo.<\/p>\n<p>As Tears for Fears put it: &#8220;And when you think it&#8217;s all over, it&#8217;s not over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ovTPJ5RPPb2Hsrd8iDwS2X\" name=\"20250402153121_1\" alt=\"A game room with a fortune telling machine\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Raw Fury)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Blue Prince you draft room cards to build a 45-room mansion in hopes of somehow finding and entering the hidden 46th room. But while that&#8217;s the goal of the game, it&#8217;s not the <em>end <\/em>of the game, not by far. After finishing the game, it quickly becomes apparent there&#8217;s plenty more to do in Blue Prince: new rooms to discover, new areas to unlock, new mysteries to explore\u2014and in this case, at least one <em>old <\/em>mystery to take off the shelf and start working on again.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t the only old mystery I&#8217;m looking at with fresh eyes. There&#8217;s a story in Blue Prince, sort of a backstory slowly gleaned from notes, diaries, and a few newspaper clippings. At first it felt like just some flavor to color in the edges of the world and explain a bit more about the history of the mansion and the family that has inhabited it, but the more I learn, the more I&#8217;m convinced there&#8217;s another puzzle to solve here.<\/p>\n<p>One of the characters mentioned in this story went missing, and based on how well the other mysteries of Blue Prince work, I think this might be something I can find the answers for.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"r7KNb3ykpEHXSbSf9Zrm4X\" name=\"20250402150219_1\" alt=\"A portrait gallery\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Raw Fury)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But I&#8217;m most excited to finally put to bed that puzzle I noticed in my earliest moments in the game last year. And I haven&#8217;t cracked it yet, not completely. I now know the significance of the decoration I saw in that room the first time I played. I know what it means, why it&#8217;s there, and I know how to solve the puzzle it represents, though it&#8217;s still going to take some work to actually complete it.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, even after all this time, I still have no idea exactly what solving this puzzle will reveal to me or reward me with. I&#8217;m perfectly happy to play another 15 hours to find out. Blue Prince is out <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1569580\/Blue_Prince\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Steam<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"09ed3a84-72f2-408e-af89-3cfc57ec4209\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"09ed3a84-72f2-408e-af89-3cfc57ec4209\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/puzzle\/it-took-me-25-hours-to-finish-puzzle-strategy-game-blue-prince-and-15-hours-after-that-im-still-uncovering-new-mysteries\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I stepped inside the mysterious mansion of adventure puzzle game Blue Prince\u2014and I&#8217;m talking about the first time I played a demo way back in March of 2024\u2014I noticed something interesting about one of its rooms. 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