Hap Inc. stealthily released the third of its brilliant Hidden My Game By Mom series, titled — you guessed it, Hidden My Game By Mom 3 – Escape Room (Free), and the internet rejoiced… or at least I thought. Turns out despite many publications praising the series since the original incarnation of Hidden My Game By Mom, all of Hap Inc.’s games continue to fly under the radar. And that’s a travesty.
Each introduction of Hidden My Game By Mom starts off eerily identical: you play as “Son" (all characters remain nameless), happily thumbing away at your 3DS. “Mom" slowly opens the door behind “Son" glaring with the utmost of disappointment. One would assume it’s because “Mom" condemning his lazy actions of sitting around playing his “Nintendo" all day (from personal experience) but, like much of this game you can’t exactly pin that reasoning down. The screen hard cuts to a blank blue screen and you see “Next Day" displayed, followed by a frantic “Son" searching high and low for his game, exclaiming “My game is lost!" “Mom" slowly fades into the scene, again, with a similar concerned look on her face. The truly evil but relatable antagonist that “Mom" is knows exactly where your game is. Thus, a series of events spanning 30 days begin to play out and the game’s core loop becomes apparent.
Most of the levels throughout Hidden...