The Room 2012

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1 day

Last played

October 30, 2023

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A very engaging puzzle game I replayed and quite enjoyed. It's been god knows how many years so I forgot pretty much everything. Visually I think it holds up fairly well for a 10 year old phone game, and its vibe of fiddling with a puzzle box by pressing buttons, pulling levers or opening latches with your fingers is pretty wonderful. Every puzzle is very doable, and in the few times I got stuck, the game pretty quickly gives you progressively more obvious hints until it just gives you the answer. The story is whatever, mostly an excuse for the magic that makes the fucked up puzzle boxes that shouldn't be physically possible able to exist. I liked the vague Lovecraftian idea of a power beyond human comprehension and your descent towards it even if it manifests as non euclidian cereal boxes with a puzzle on the back.