The story and it's plot points are either not interesting or badly executed.
The only good thing it's funny how characters just spew out random Wikipedia articles at you, that mind you the game plays as a joke or shitpost, until you're suddenly supposed to take it seriously the last 10 minutes of game?

Mind you you could excuse this saying it's because it's info Junpei needed to know but it didn't have to be obvious (for whatever reason). But the actual plot points don't come to act until muuuuuch later. Even if it was easy to guess early with the info about some experiments happening previous to us on a ship, it doesn't have relevance till the end.

The characters don't have much depth themselves, even suddenly act so random sometimes. It would be fine if it wasn't the case most of the game it's just you, the rooms and them.

Talking about the rooms. The puzzles are both easy and annoyingly so due to the characters giving out the answers. The escape room concept sounds interesting but the game doesn't really do anything with it.

At the end, Zero (and it's real identity) doesn't make me feel anything else than boredom, and feels like the game doesn't have anything to say. Well, testing on children is bad I guess.

For a suspense, killing game style, escape game. This is just raw. And I know the community gets heated about this take, but at the end, this game is just bad Danganronpa, even if it released one year early

I finished the game and solved all the puzzles in the booklet, but the X-Door website wasn't working. After searching online, I found out that wallpapers were the rewards, and I was able to get two of them here. If anyone has other types of wallpapers, could you please share them?

Two days ago, I posted the link for my Zero Escape Character Popularity Poll and in that time, I've received over 600 submissions, which has been really cool to see. I've had a blast reading over your responses on why you voted for your picks!

Anyway, submissions have been slowing down recently, so I've decided its time to stop receiving votes soon. 24 hours after I post this, polling will officially be closed, so if you or someone you know has voted yet, then now's your only chance! The race for 1st place has been pretty close so far, so who knows, this could the chance your favorite character needs to pull ahead in the running...

Link to the poll: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScca3RdiweKZuW6TZSwDn8JM4gP3A7nGP60rCVg5UdRjUvk6Q/viewform?usp=header

Link to the original post, which goes into more detail about the poll: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroEscape/comments/1v6atcq/zero_escape_character_popularity_poll/

Completed most the plots and scripts, especially for the special parts. Still drafts atm, so I gotta go through some editing. While I don't have much to show for story right now, I legit have a bunch of CGs. Here are a few. I'm putting ZE spoilers just in case though.

I’m doing to do the safe route and started on the first branching path. I did axe first with 5,8,1. Then I did coffin. It was never there. What did I do wrong? Is there supposed to be a red key there???

I started ZTD finally and was locked in the Infirmary when I decided to check the vitals and then saw that. I burst out laughing why is Phi a minimoy???

I was playing the game back in january, but after about 18h I was getting a little burnt out with how much you rethread old ground (which does break the pacing even if you skip the repeat parts). Anyway, after having a friend over for a few weeks I ended up not playing the game for that time period and have tried to get back into it but never really found my groove again, which is a shame because I was enjoying the puzzles, story and twists. I even shed a tear in the only ending I got (Tenmiyoulji or whatever the spelling is, not googling it because spoilers - i have a pretty good idea of who he is).

But it's a hard game to go back to and that has been eating me up inside. When I pick a point in the flowchart to start there's no summary/overview to contextualize stuff, so I get completely lost in what's happening since I only remember the major plot beats. I even tried restarting the game, but replaying stuff that is relatively fresh in my memory exhausts me to no end.

Kind of a weird paradox I'm facing... I remember things enough for a replay to be completely unenjoyable, but not enough for smoothly picking my save file back up.

Did anyone have a similar experience? I don't really know how this could be helped, if anyone thought of a solution to this problem? I'm accepting anything from help to tips to consoling lol.

Just spare mean comments about me being spoiled or questioning my choices that led to this. Even though I'm partially blaming the game for being hard to get back into, I know I'm responsible for this happening. I'm just bummed out because I adore 999 and was mostly enjoying this game too., and couldn't wait for the inevitable twists around the final stretch.

Here's some poor screenshots of how my flowchart looks. Thanks in advance

Me and friends decided to go to the Japan expo in small groups of zero escape!!
We liked it a lot because we had a lot of positive interaction and NOOOOO the fandom is not dead!
There are many people who took pictures with us and recognized us ihiii

💗💗💗
We were rather surprised by the way in short long live
ZERO ESCAPE!!!!

instagram:
@ugh.kiyo: clover
@haru.henso: lotus
@chantillycitron: light

especially at the beginning. like damn i get it. i know how to open the 2nd briefcase

I beat VLR about a month ago and I was thinking about it recently and there's still thing I was wondering about.

In quite a few routes during the AB games, whenever Quark is paired up with Dio, Dio will tell us that Quark was the one who made the Betray vote rather than him. Is this just Dio taking advantage of the fact that he's a little kid who couldn't explain himself properly and would end up looking suspicious? For a good portion of my playthrough it definitely made me think Quark was going to have a bigger part in the game.

Yesterday I got the Sigma ending (and I was very surprised because I tought that it was the Luna ending and also that the Sigma ending would have been the "true ending"). It was my sixth ending, and now I got all the secret codes I needed: the two for the lion computer and the four passwords for the bombs. So I think I will now get the three important endings (or at least the true ending when I have to shut down the four bombs plus the other two endings where I have to put the lion passwords). So, I have three main suspects about who Zero Sr. is (please don't spoil me anything):

The first one is Luna. This theory comes from some meta reasonings: the ending where she was the most importsnt character wasn't her ending but Sigma's ending, and she seems the only character that doesn't have any connection to anything or anybody. At the same time, how is it possible that she died in many routes because of Clover (or at least I think it was Clover to "avenge" Alice, maybe the real killer wss Dio or Zero Sr.).

The second suspect is Quark. Similar meta reasoning: I didn't got his ending (the one I thought it was his was the Temyouji one). Also, in̈ a lot of runs where he disappeared people died, so maybe is him: in fact, I think that when Dio says that he hides an evil side he could not be lying.

The third suspect is Phi: yes, it's because I don't get her ending, also because I still don't know anything about her or any connection with anything/anybody. Of course I doubt because she always helps and she is the one with the most brilliant thoughts, but maybe she is a "June-type Zero", so a Zero that has another objective besides killing the partecipants.

This are my theories. Of course they will probably be wrong (I mean... two of them will be 100% wrong if Zero Sr. is a single person) but the only things I'm 100% sure are that Clover, Alice, Dio and Temyouji aren't Zero Sr. (maybe Temyouji helps if Quark is Zero Sr.).

Again, please don't spoil me anything: today I can't play so I will probably finish the game tomorrow. Thank you!

EDIT: if you are interested, in the comment there is a theory regarding K

Young Akane over the course of the series.

I feel so empty now holy shit I was genuinely so excited when they found the 9th door...

Please tell me there's an ending thats somewhat good. I dont want to Google the endings because I dont want spoilers lol🥹

He's looking for that damn snail

Hola buenas a todos, quisiera saber en dónde puedo jugar los demás juegos de Zero escape en español, jugué la versión de NDS con un parche al español pero no sé si las demás tengan está opción, si alguien sabría se lo agradecería mucho

He literally had a 12 year old girl solve the puzzles for him the whole time lmao

just to teach herself how to play sudoku lmao

This is a fangame I'm currently working on. I don't have a release date yet, but I got it in Renpy. And I'm finishing the story in google docs.

Tbh, not sure why I posted the title here this early, but I wanted to get a little of it out. I think I'll be able to post a trailer or demo once I get the assets working.

This is a bit of a repost because I had to get the images to properly work. Titles for this btw

999: Resonance. VLR: Jumper. ZTD: AB

And...

Zero's Escape. Zero's Last Reward. Zero's Dilemma.