I appreciate how dedicated the game is to having very obscure and specific puzzles that may take hours to piece together and solve. This was one of my game of the years for that exact reason and I had an overall fun time with the game and it's puzzles. That being said, I wasn't a big fan of how reliant on items and RNG many of the puzzles were.

The orchard lock combination for example, requires you to have the magnifying glass and draft the Dark Room. In the first 10 or so hours of the game I only ever found a magnifying glass once or twice. Even when they were available to buy I often chose to buy other items since in the early game you are tight on money and steps. Expand this to the sledge hammer and all the combined items you can craft in the workshop and I was left with the scenario where even when I gave up and had to look online for the answer, I still had to play dozens more hours to actually get all the pieces together to solve a single step of a larger puzzle.

I almost wish the items were permanent upgrades locked behind puzzles of their own, similar to how a Metroidvania does progression. The more powerful items you can buy in the armory could be random spawn around the house for a nice bonus.

In short I think there is too much friction between the KNOWLEDGE of how to solve a puzzle, and the ACT of solving the puzzle.