As a journalist, you must have stepped on somebody's toes with your articles, because, it seems, a powerful figure has decided to punish you. And now you're trapped in a luxurious mansion that it's going to explode in a few hours, with you inside, if you don't find a way to survive, doors and windows being, of course, barred or unopenable. This is the premise of Countdown, a verb-noun text adventure sold at 0.99£, but that was, and still is, quite enjoyable. The game surely lets you play and explore the ample building, which can of course hide some surprises as hidden passages, trapdoors etc., without indulging in the sudden death syndrome. I've solved just the 28% of it, but what I've seen so far is quite good, the graphics are not totally crappy, and the color of the screen and the border changes nicely according to the environment.
3,75/5
