In a nutshell

An adventure with the weirdest puzzles ever. A definite head-doer. In fact, if you’re feeling a bit chirpy and happy with life, you might want to spend a few minutes with this lump of uselessness. It’ll have you tearing your hair out in no time. Honest!

What’s it good for?

Winding yourself up.

Judgement time…

There’s no denying Lost In The Pyramid is ambitious. It attempts to cram a multi-pathed, free form adventure onto your mobile, along with full inventory control, extremely tricky puzzles and cutesy graphics. Unfortunately, it fails miserably.

The premise is great – you play a famous archaeologist named, ahem, Indiana Bones, tasked with tracking down a mysterious lost pyramid, and unearthing the treasures it contains.

Standing in your way, however, are puzzles of such mind-bending obscurity you’ll have trouble figuring them out at all. Some seem to be coded to react more to luck than skill. Search a spot for an object once and it might, or might not, be there. You might be successful a second time, but then again, you might not. Then there’re the combinations of objects required to solve some problems. Who would (or could have) guessed you’d need flowers to make explosives!

The trick, it seems, is to search each screen thoroughly for clues, before attempting to use any items you find, in as many orders as possible. All standard adventure game fare, except that the control system employed here is so laborious it becomes more of a patience test than one of observation or logic.

Adventure games on your mobile should be a great time-killer, especially if the story’s good enough to keep you motivated. What Lost In The Pyramid does, however, is take a reasonable premise, and ambitious intentions, and destroy them with clumsy and ill-designed puzzles.

Our advice? Steer clear of this ‘adventure’ at all costs. Investigate SCUMMVM for some old-school graphical capers with great storylines and fantastic puzzles at zero cost. Lost In The Pyramid simply isn’t worth your time or money.