If you tuned into our Twitch livestream yesterday, you've already heard me sing praises about The Room. Our pick for best iPad game of 2012 is a puzzler's dream - the kind of game that has to be played to be believed. The sequel just game out yesterday, and if you're wondering why it's worth your hard earned money, you can find out right now by snagging the original FOR FREE. (The iPhone version is free too, and you can snag it here).If you get stuck (and you will), be sure to check out our complete walkthrough. And stay tuned for our full review and walkthrough of the sequel, The Room Two.Now stop reading and start puzzling!
The Room is a great game. It's a highly polished, super-challenging puzzler; the kind that will have you pulling your hair out in clumps. But since huge bald spots aren't terribly flattering, we've decided to do a public service: we've updated our walkthrough for The Room with everything you need to know to solve the game's first (and only) update, The Room: Epilogue.
Fireproof Games has announced today that the mysterious epilogue chapter they've been teasing for their popular puzzle-adventure game The Room will be making its anticipated debut in a free update this Thursday across all available platforms. The Room is an incredibly atmospheric first-person puzzle game of sorts, in which players must scour every inch of a shadowy room to find the means to unlock a series of intricately crafted boxes, filled with just as many secrets.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that The Room was the best iPad game to be released in 2012. And by go out on a limb, I mean "agree with every iPad owner on the planet, as well as Gamezebo's own Best of 2012 list). The box within a box within a box provided more puzzlers per second than any game I've had the joy of encountering; the only complaint being that there isn't more of it.
It wasn't so long ago that smartphone/tablet games were considered a passing phase - not to mention inferior to games on dedicated mobile gaming platforms (which is a shame because that version of Snake on old Nokia phones was awesome). But things have changed a lot since then, and in fact smartphone/tablet games have popped up in the "Best Mobile/Handheld Game" category of the Game Developer's Choice Awards four years in a row now. This year, it's The Room and Hero Academy.