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Post by richard on Aug 30, 2016 19:31:26 GMT -5
The room (1,2, and 3) are the only app games I've ever played that were worth the few dollars they cost.
It's a puzzle box game with a dark but intriguing story of arcane research. The goal is to escape the room by solving the puzzles to find a way out.
The art is beautiful and the music well done. The puzzles are not hard but are still clever enough to be quite enjoyable. The story is told in bits and pieces through pages of the scientist's diary found in the course of solving the puzzles. It reminds me of the mpc's experiences giving intriguing tidbits of the mysterious scientist and his studies until the reveal.
Overall I think it's exactly what these types of games should be, and all 3 games cost about 10 dollars total. They arent long games but considering how well done they are i dont have any problem with the shortness.
So check them out if you like this kind of game!
Richard
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Post by Beckett on Aug 31, 2016 0:33:34 GMT -5
The room (1,2, and 3) are the only app games I've ever played that were worth the few dollars they cost. It's a puzzle box game with a dark but intriguing story of arcane research. The goal is to escape the room by solving the puzzles to find a way out. The art is beautiful and the music well done. The puzzles are not hard but are still clever enough to be quite enjoyable. The story is told in bits and pieces through pages of the scientist's diary found in the course of solving the puzzles. It reminds me of the mpc's experiences giving intriguing tidbits of the mysterious scientist and his studies until the reveal. Overall I think it's exactly what these types of games should be, and all 3 games cost about 10 dollars total. They arent long games but considering how well done they are i dont have any problem with the shortness. So check them out if you like this kind of game! Richard I tremendously enjoyed those! The design of the devices one is given to solve is lovely!
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Post by dmikester on Sept 20, 2016 14:27:56 GMT -5
I can't agree more with this recommendation. I especially love The Room 3, which has multiple endings and some incredibly intricate puzzles. As Richard said, the puzzles aren't particularly challenging (but I wouldn't call them cakewalks either), so it's a great way to introduce someone to tactile puzzle solving.
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Post by centaurofattn on Jun 27, 2017 9:18:33 GMT -5
Bumping this up because there is a fourth game coming out later this year!
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Post by squirrel on Jun 27, 2017 9:43:37 GMT -5
Fantastic! I loved the first three
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Post by dmikester on Jun 27, 2017 13:18:23 GMT -5
I doubt I'm going to recommend this (haven't finished it but I think I'm getting close), but there's a game that just came out called The House of Da Vinci that is a direct descendant (I would honestly say imitator) of The Room series. It's more or less identical gameplay-wise, complete with a lens that lets you see mysterious hidden things. The cool thing is that many of the contraptions are based on actual Da Vinci inventions and devices, which is neat. However, the gameplay is, so far, nowhere near as inventive or clever as The Room, and there are some questionable design choices that annoy me greatly, such as the whole environment being extremely dark to the point where you can't even see what you're trying to click some of the time, and the lens requires a weird swipe motion to activate that doesn't work all the time and that feels half-finished. If anything, it's worth checking out to see how important good design is; even with an identical concept to The Room, Da Vinci suffers in comparison due to less inspired game and puzzle design.
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Post by centaurofattn on Jun 28, 2017 7:55:18 GMT -5
Someone else said to check that out. Though I think they said it was in kickstarter mode or something and still hadn't been released. Interesting that it IS out. I will take a look. If it's cheap/free I don't mind the download. Interestingly, The Room is one of the few apps on the phone that I don't uninstall "just in case" I want to go back and play again. After a few months I forget a lot of the fine details and can just replay it which is nice.
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Post by dmikester on Jun 28, 2017 10:06:09 GMT -5
Someone else said to check that out. Though I think they said it was in kickstarter mode or something and still hadn't been released. Interesting that it IS out. I will take a look. If it's cheap/free I don't mind the download. Interestingly, The Room is one of the few apps on the phone that I don't uninstall "just in case" I want to go back and play again. After a few months I forget a lot of the fine details and can just replay it which is nice. I have to be honest, I gave up on it this morning. There was a puzzle involving the lens that just didn't work. The lens was supposed to reveal something on a globe, and it just never worked right; I tried it four or five times, resetting each time, and it only revealed the needed information once out of all those times (and yes, I downloaded the update last night that was supposed to "improve performance"). Again, a great game in theory, but badly thought out and programmed. It almost feels like there was a rush job at the end to try to get it out before the new Room game this year, and the sloppiness from the rushing made it compare even worse than it would have otherwise.
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Post by centaurofattn on Jun 28, 2017 10:53:41 GMT -5
Are you playing on a mobile phone? I may look into it on a tablet if the size might help.
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Post by dmikester on Jun 28, 2017 15:33:52 GMT -5
Nope, as weird as this sounds, I never play mobile games on my phone, especially games like The Room. I'm a much bigger fan of the tablet for the increased graphical power and screen size.
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Post by mrkroovy on Jul 1, 2017 19:49:04 GMT -5
In case anyone's interested, there's a sale on the games (at least on Google Play store) where the games are all half off and it's going for seven days. I've been playing the first game and I bought the other two. It's pretty good so far. The only thing that's unfortunate that I've noticed so far is that due to the nature of the puzzles, you can brute force some of them, which has happened to me twice on accident, but I plan on either playing through it again or looking at a walkthrough to find out WHY it worked.
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Post by centaurofattn on Jul 3, 2017 8:11:43 GMT -5
Ooo interested in which two you brute forced. I don't remember a time when that would be easy to do haha
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Post by mrkroovy on Jul 3, 2017 16:47:49 GMT -5
If I remember right, they both involved dials. I was just kinda spinning them and they stopped at a certain point and stuff started moving, so I was like "Wait, why did that work? Was I SUPPOSED to just mess with it?"
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Post by Beckett on Jul 11, 2017 5:33:57 GMT -5
I believe that there are some elements where the player is actually supposed simply to push and pull and spin and whirr until the parts fall into place - at some points it was as much about finding the moving parts as it was about solving a riddle. By the way, this game here, called The House of da Vinci, seems to be a puzzle game in the same vein as The Room. I have not tried it, since I am waiting for the android release, but it certainly does look neat.
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Post by dmikester on Jul 11, 2017 12:26:15 GMT -5
I believe that there are some elements where the player is actually supposed simply to push and pull and spin and whirr until the parts fall into place - at some points it was as much about finding the moving parts as it was about solving a riddle. By the way, this game here, called The House of da Vinci, seems to be a puzzle game in the same vein as The Room. I have not tried it, since I am waiting for the android release, but it certainly does look neat. See my posts earlier in this thread regarding The House of da Vinci. I was very, very underwhelmed by it and ultimately gave up on it after running into serious technical issues with one of its puzzles. I may try re-downloading it in order to finish it, but for now, it stands as a pale imitation of The Room.
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