The Room
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and…
The Room is an indie developed by Fireproof Games, released 19 September 2012 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 2.1 hrs to finish.
What The Room is
The Room is an indie game developed by Fireproof Games and released in 2012. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game has a minimal story, in which the player is told by letters of a mysterious box in a room in a house; as the player solves the puzzles around the box, more notes from the same author - one who previously had solved the mystery of the box - are found, describing the box's use of an ethereal material called "Null", as well as showing the author slowly descending into madness.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 5 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Room holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 241 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM and Video card with 512MB of VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Room launched on 19 September 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dishonored, Borderlands 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dishonored, Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Room yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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