• Asfalia: Panic At the Mansion
• Genre; Point and Click, Adventure
• Developer: Funomata
• Publisher: Funomata
• Release Date: Jan 14, 2026
• Playtime: About 3 hours
• Difficulty Level: No difficulty level
• Platform: Switch, Steam

The first thing that drew me to this story is the art style. The game is hand-painted depicts a world full of wonderful characters that each have their own personalities that leap off the screen.

I experienced this world on my switch, my favorite way to enjoy these cozy little adventures. The game use puzzles that advance you through the storyline. Each puzzle is fairly easy and offer accessibility to both kids and adults but I will admit there were a couple that tripped me up.

This is mostly due to the fact that while accessible they weren’t always intuitive. Which leads me to another area the game struggled a bit and that was controls. So, on the Switch, you moved the character of Charlie using the left joystick. To interactive with items in the game you must first use the right joystick which then actually show the cursor of the screen. It was just frustrating mechanic.

Then there was also the issue of it not always being clear what you had to do to move the story. Yes, solve the puzzle but where is the puzzle. If you missed one part of it, you were stuck until you either figured it out or you look up the solution. Again, there were a few that stumped me but once I know the starting part it was pretty easy to solve after that.

Asfalia did also offer a mini game that you could play that was fun and remind my a lot of the Space Invaders.

There were a lot fun characters, but I found that Lily was my favorite. Lily is small flame that accompanies Charlie on his adventure offer encouragement, companionship and a way to scare away way the darkness when it way too close. There is was fun little mini game with her too. When Lily need to the banished the darkness you had make sure the temperature gauge was in a certain zone the that would the make it go up and as it did go up Lily would grow brighter.

Once you get deeper in the game there were couple puzzles that if didn’t do the right you were stuck and you couldn’t reset them. The only way to proceed was to quit the game entirely and then start the game back up. Which could make you loss some of the progress that you made. But there was no loading issues and other the a few things I mentioned before the game control were pretty smooth.

I would rate this game 3.5 🍿. It was fun little distraction and perfect for those afternoons when you want a challenge but just a tiny one.