Escape From Mystwood Mansion news & patch notes

Hello everyone!

While we’re hard at work getting the Escape the Riddlerock Ruins demo ready… we also wanted to highlight a brand new release from our indie friends over at OnSkull Games (creators of Escape: First Alchemist)!

✨ Alchemist: Journey of the Soul ⚗️🔮

It’s a first-person adventure puzzle game, now released and available to play solo or in co-op with up to 4 players!

Created by the Alchemist himself, you explore ancient castles and monasteries, gather ingredients, brew powerful potions, unlock magical abilities, and solve mysterious puzzles on your journey toward the legendary Philosopher’s Stone - an artifact said to grant you a soul of your own.

We also heard rumours about a "truth buried under layers of alchemical lies..." 👀

Right up the alley for players who enjoy exploration, puzzle-solving, and a secret to uncover, solo or with friends.

If it looks interesting to you, it’s available now to check out and play!

Go support another indie team and take a look 🧡

Dear Escapists,

We are so excited to finally announce our next escape-room game:

🗿🌴Escape the Riddlerock Ruins 🌴🗿

Pack your bags and sharpen your wits - this time, you aren’t exploring alone. From overgrown jungle ruins to hidden mountain chambers, the mysteries of a lost civilization are waiting to be unraveled. And yes, you’ll have your loyal dog companion by your side to help sniff out hidden clues!

If you enjoyed the puzzles and atmostphere of Mystwood Mansion, you'll feel right at home - but we're taking things to a whole new depth.

What's new in this expedition:

🌴 A Brand-New Setting

Explore everything from your base campsite to overgrown jungle ruins and mysterious mountain chambers.

🧩 New Puzzles

A whole collection of fresh, handcrafted puzzles designed to challenge your logic, observation, and deduction skills.

🎒 Inventory System

A true explorer needs their gear. Use your backpack to carry tools, relics, and vital puzzle items.

🐕 Loyal Dog Companion

Your dog isn’t just for pets; they’ll help find clues and guide you through the ruins.

💾 Save Anywhere

No more checkpoint stress. Save exactly where you are, whenever you want.

Wishlist Escape the Riddlerock Ruins now on Steam:

Tell us what you're most excited for!

Thanks for your support 🧡

Lost Sock Studio

Escapists…

In one week, we’ll finally announce our next game - a brand-new mystery full of puzzles, secrets, and curious places to explore.

If you enjoyed your stay at Mystwood Mansion, you may want to keep an eye out!

More details soon... 🗝️

🧩 Escape Bundle: Alchemy & Mystery — Out Now! ⚗️🏰

We’re happy to share our newest collaboration with OnSkull Games: the Escape Bundle: Alchemy & Mystery! This special bundle brings together two immersive first-person escape room adventures - now at 15% off (with even bigger savings during the Steam Summer Sale!)

⚗️ Escape First Alchemist

Step into the alchemist’s workshop, where you (and up to 3 friends!) must brew potions, solve riddles, and outsmart your eccentric master to escape.

🏰 Escape From Mystwood Mansion

Explore a grand, mysterious mansion filled with intricate puzzles, hidden clues, and secrets waiting to be uncovered. Will you make it out - or stay to learn the truth?

If you love immersive escape room experiences packed with mystery, exploration, and clever puzzles, this bundle is for you!

Get the bundle here and begin your (escape) adventures:

• Controller Display Fix: The LT key bind will no longer appear in the lower left corner when inspecting items without a zoom feature, such as the phone in the Office.
• Improved Symbol Visibility: Adjusted the fade-out distance for smaller symbols and markings, ensuring they remain visible longer. For example, the markings on the keys in the Entrance can now be seen even if standing far away from a key.
• Bookshelf Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where standing in a specific spot could get you stuck between the rotating bookshelf and the railing in the Library.
• Hold-to-Zoom Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where the hold-to-zoom feature would temporarily stop working after inspecting certain items.
• Vault Door Unlock Fix: Fixed an issue where entering the Entrance by passing the last bookshelf and then returning to deliver the package in the chute would not unlock the Vault door, when the other two secret tasks were completed.
• Library Lighting Fixes: Resolved various lighting artifacts in the Library.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the broken Display Mode Combo-box in Graphic settings.
• The small clock key in the library can no longer be placed at the spots meant for the plaques.
• Added some extra safety features to (hopefully) prevent the very rare bug of falling through the level when loading into the game.

• Unwind on the couch or in front of your PC setup - escape the mansion with the familiar comfort of your gamepad.
• Native support for Xbox controllers and seamless support for other controllers via Steam Input (glyphs remain Xbox-styled).
• Intuitive button mapping and stick controls for examining objects, activating mechanisms, and navigating menus.

• 🔎Hold to Zoom Feature: Hold down the new zoom button (middle mouse button, or RS/RT on gamepad) to get a closer look.
• 🐛Bug fixes: We've squashed more bugs to ensure a smoother escape experience.

New Features:

• Full Controller Support: Maneuver through the mansion with your trusty gamepad, complete with fancy XBOX glyphs!
• Zoom-tastic: Get the perfect view while traversing the mansion, hold down the new zoom button (middle mouse button, or RS/RT on gamepad) to get a closer look.

Bug Fixes:

• Sensitivity Fix: Fixed a bug where setting the ‘Mouse Look Sensitivity’ above 1 would reset all the settings under the ‘Game’ setting tab when opening the pause menu again.
• Winter Garden Table Fix: Fixed a bug where it was possible to get stuck in the dining table in the Winter Garden if standing in a specific location on top of the table when the secret hatch opened.
• Library Check-Out Fix: Fixed issue when leaving the library carrying an item. The character would not “drop” the item properly before deleting it causing visual discrepancies.
• Magnet Mishap Solved: The mischievous wine crate lid can no longer trap your magnet (or other small items). The crate lid can now be picked up.
• Stop the Spins: Fixed a visual bug where interacting with lock tumblers in quick succession could make the lock unlock but the tumbler would keep spinning to the next number/letter/position.

Miscellaneous:

• Seed Bag Blues Begone: Tired of juggling seeds back to their specific bags? Toss them in any bag, or even swap them for dirt! Added more ways of getting rid of a seed after picking it up with the small shovel in the Winter Garden.
• Changed the Toggle Crouch setting’s default to True.

Bug Fixes:

• Level Loading Issue Resolved: Resolved an issue where the outside level failed to load for specific players upon completing the game.
• Crystal Disappearance Fixed: Addressed a problem where the crystal in the dumbwaiter occasionally vanished.
• Drawer Logs Unstuck: Fixed an bug where logs within the office drawer could become trapped behind the drawers.
• Library Gate Note Hitbox Adjusted: Adjusted the hitbox of the Library gate note to reduce the likelihood of it disappearing during placement or throwing.

New Feature:

• End Screen Timer: Added an optional timer that can be enabled in Settings that will show the time it took to complete the game in the end screen.

Puzzle Adjustments:

• Library Gate Tweak: Small tweaks to the cipher paper used for the gate puzzle in Library.

Bug Fixes:

• Outer Door Issue: Fix issue where player would get stuck in outer door by standing close to the windows while opening the doors.
• Visual Bug on Stones in Wine Cellar: Fixed bug where stone texture in Wine Cellar would sometimes flicker black.
• Winter Garden Plates: Fixed the shininess of the plates in Winter Garden.
• Seed Teleportation Bug: Seeds no longer possess teleportation powers! We've ensured they stay put in the Winter Garden and resist the allure of the Library.
• Winter Garden Plant Pot Disappearance: The potted plants in the Winter Garden won't pull a Houdini act anymore when you place them on the plates in the dining area.
• Wine Cellar Magnet Retrieval: Fixed issue where magnet could get stuck behind the bars and could not be picked up in the Wine Cellar.
• Library "Thinking Outside the Box" Fix: Fixed issue where it was possible to bypass the gate in the library in an non-intended way.
• Library Overlay Disappear: Fix issue where some overlay pieces could disappear while moving them in Library.
• Library Overlay Weird Light: Fix weird lighting casted on overlay pieces in Library while rotating them.

Miscellaneous:

• Checkpoint Clarification: Added "Progress made since last checkpoint will be lost" text when pressing the exit button in Pause menu, to make it more clear that progress may be lost when exiting the game.
• Grammar Improvements: The grammar gurus have arrived to banish typos and language misadventures from the mansion; Fixed grammar mistakes.

Welcome puzzle solvers and escapists!

• Add feature that lets you zoom in/out and move camera on specific inspected items/locations.
• Add Movement Speed setting.
• Changed default keybinding for rotating items when inspecting them - the default is now LMB instead of RMB.
• Fixed a bug where the Morse code marking on the book (in the chest) had a non-intended color and was (slightly more) difficult to notice.
• Fixed a bug where the remote control could not be thrown.
• Visual update to the HUD.

• Items that are carried can now be thrown using RMB (default keybinding).
• In a stroke of fiery genius, we've bestowed upon you the ability to place logs in the fireplace. Embrace the warmth and let the log-ic flow!
• Crouching now has a smooth animation.
• Can interact with heart painting to inspect it closer.
• All brightly colored books (blue, green, yellow, red) can now be picked up.
• Updated the Fuse Box Puzzle to try bring some clarity to the markings inside the hat.
• Crucial information on the yellow instruction note (on top of bookshelf) is now only partially visible. The rest of the instructions note is located inside the fusebox door. This was done to help players who find the instruction note early realize that the instruction paper is for a later puzzle (and should not be used on the safe).
• Fixed bug where plaques could be placed in an unintended location into a bookshelf.
• Batteries are now calmly evacuating the phone (fixed a bug where in rare cases one or both batteries were launched out of the level).
• Updated hints for some puzzles.
• Small tweaks and changes to puzzles in the level.
• …and more fixes for minor issues!

Welcome puzzle solvers and escapists!

Welcome puzzle solvers and escapists!

• Made it possible exit inspect using ESC-key.
• Modified desk in office to make it easier to place items on.
• Make cable below fusebox glow green, to better indicate power flow.
• Fixed issue where fusebox instruction paper was difficult to pick back up after placing on fusebox door.
• Add FoV setting.
• Fixed bug where Sensitivity sliders (in settings) were displaying the wrong values first time launching demo.
• Fixed bug where X-sensitivity was set to 0 at demo start when using the advanced mouse look sensitivity settings.
• Add a Toggle Crouch setting.
• Add support to click on tumblers while inspecting to spin them forward.
• Increased tumblers rotation speed.
• Other fixes for small bugs.

• Fusebox instruction note can now be picked back up after being placed inside the fusebox.
• Map pins can no longer be interacted with when not inspecting the map.
• Batteries are no longer tiny when inspecting them.
• Already solved puzzles no longer appear in the hint system, when solving puzzles in a non-intended order.
• Made the keyhole on the fire extinguisher box bigger and moved it above the handle, so it’s easier to see.
• Made it easier to inspect the briefcase and therefore notice the small combination lock on it.
• Fixed bug where the pedestal key could be picked up before hatch opens when solving crystal-pedestal puzzle.
• Fixed a bug where a crystal statue could be picked up from the briefcase before opening it.
• New and updated hints for some of the puzzles.
• Minor tweaks and changes to some puzzles.

The Escape From Mystwood Mansion Demo is now released!