Herman Electro

Herman Electro is a puzzle game about helping Herman and his friends escape a prison and contact the outside world. You work through six floors of a factory whose layout changes completely with each attempt. Failure sends you back to the start, while the tools you collect can help you tackle the puzzles on later attempts.

The prison

Each floor contains puzzles, an exit and special rooms. The prison has over 30 tiles and more than 480 puzzles. You can play as one of six characters, each with a different playstyle.

Solve the puzzles

Most prison rooms contain electricity-based puzzles that require you to spend tools. Each puzzle has multiple possible solutions, and different tools can lead to different approaches. You might cut a wire to stop a bomb box, set off a bomb to break through concrete walls, or lure a guard into doing the work before leading it into a pit. Other options include pouring water on a power supply or using a battering ram.

Tools

You have seven basic tools, alongside 30 rarer supertools hidden throughout the prison. Basic tools are consumable, so choose how to spend them; supertools are more powerful and can open up creative solutions to difficult puzzles.

• The Saw: cut through walls to make a direct route to the exit.
• The Plank: cover pits or block guards.
• The Wire Cutters: cut wires and destroy circuits.
• The Water Bucket: short out a power supply or make an electrified puddle.
• The Sponge: clean.
• The Brick: break glass.
• The Gun: protect yourself from guards.
• The Bomb: wreck people and objects, and possibly yourself.
• The Crowbar: unlock doors within rooms.
• The Spring: jump a long distance, but look before you leap.

There are 25 more supertools beyond the three described here.

Other features

The game includes a final challenge, 58 achievements, a minimum-security metashop with hat-wearing shopkeepers, and adjustable wire size. Mushrooms appear throughout the game, with repeated warnings not to eat them.