Summertime Madness

Summertime Madness is a 3D puzzle game, you’re a painter trapped in their painting and you solve puzzles to escape.
The game has a timer, or rather you’re supposed to play with a timer (the lowest “difficulty” disables it fortunately). I don’t understand the timer thing when you have a world to explore and collectibles to find, but whatever. Even with the worst timer (3h), you should be good.
The island you see in the screenshots can be explored, but the game is not an open world, it’s linear with puzzles coming one by one.

Now, what are those puzzles about? What’s the special mechanic? Well, there is none. The majority of them consists of slowly exploring a big maze and pulling levers that activate things. And that’s why I can’t recommend this game.
Maybe if the running speed was 2 or 3 times faster, the game would’ve been decent. That’s a shame because it’s not VERY bad, the mazes are not totally braindead but the gigantic amount of time you waste walking is just not acceptable.

Summertime Madness is a collection of tedious and not very interesting puzzles, and games that blatantly try to waste your time are a big no.

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Developer: DP Games
Publishers: DP Games, aNc Studios
Platforms: Steam – Windows/macOS, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series, Xbox One
Release Date: June 17, 2021