The Room - izigame

Game Info

The Room Tribute (also known as The Room: The Game) is a point-and-click adventure game released on September 3, 2010, that serves as an unofficial adaptation of the 2003 film The Room directed by Tommy Wiseau. It was programmed by Newgrounds founder Tom Fulp, with artwork by Newgrounds staff member Jeff "JohnnyUtah" Bandelin, and music by animator Chris O'Neill. The game was designed in the style of 16-bit graphics, much like similar games based on the films Tremors and The Hunger Games for Newgrounds' own 2010 and 2012 April Fools jokes.

Name

The Room

Companies

Newgrounds

Released

9/3/2010

Platforms

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS

Engines

Adobe Flash Player

Type

Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

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Reviews

Friday, April 12, 2024 6:16:52 PM

8 Steam users votes up

AnixZiel

Steam user

Whatever *this* is isn't a puzzle game. It's a bad find the object and put round pegs in round holes game and it's not even really good at that. Spoilers ahead.
I love puzzle games and having to think to solve the game. The problem is that this isn't really a puzzle game. A lot of it is spent clicking aimlessly around the boxes to find the next hidden contraption to shove something in. Boring, right? And since I'm not able to get a refund I'm gonna be as brutally honest as I please.
Here's a list of my general gripes with this game:
1: The initial audio setting is far louder than it has any business being. Set it lower.
2: The animations take unnecessarily long. I do not need to spend 10 seconds slowly panning across a room to then spend another 10 watching a drawer pull out I promise you I will live with 3 seconds of animation.
3: The mouse dragging to turn mechanic is just inconvenient if we're being real here. I do not know *why* it's like that but the camera function in this game in general makes me nauseous.
4: The hints aren't good and neither is the game at directing you to where you should be. Usually it's as easy as 123 but sometimes it's something odd and obscure that one is likely to miss if they're not actively looking for it. In one level there was a faint line in a box to show there was something there and I missed it. Why? My graphics were set just a little too low and the game was lit like a gas station bathroom. The hints also almost always tell me something I already knew and then will not let me move on to the next hint for an arbitrary amount of time. What's the point of a hint that just states the bare minimum obvious?
5: The game sometimes just will not let you solve it. What do I mean by that? Yesterday I spent an hour aimlessly turning a box trying to find something I had clearly missed since the answer that had been so obvious to me was incorrect. It made me feel dumb as dirt that I couldn't figure something simple out. I eventually used all of my hints only for it to tell me to go back and do the exact same thing I did the first time. What the fuck? Yeah, the game had essentially just stopped functioning temporarily and left me to wonder what I did wrong. The only thing I did wrong was playing this game thinking I'd have fun. Another section that gave me grief by doing the exact same thing was a section with the adjustable keys. Got it right the first time. It didn't work. Tried every other combo under the sun. Went back to the first only for it to work that time. These two sections were not at all unique experience to the rest of my playing either. This happened more often than it ever should have.
6:The camera panning. I don't know what about it rubs me the wrong way but I don't like the way it functions in this game at all. It moves slowly, clips through a bunch of shit, and takes some of the fucking weirdest visual routes to whatever you clicked on. A fade to black would be more visually appealing than whatever the hell we got.
7: The game is inconsistent. Some items are reusable till they get left somewhere, usually once or twice per level there will be something you can reuse. One level there was a wall that was used I think 4 time for different things. Other items are made shiny and important looking but will be of 0 use while the important items of the level are made dull and don't stand out for you to give them a second thought until you're forced to. This game will hold your hand to make sure you don't drown while stepping through toe deep water but then will shove you right into the deep end of the pool with 0 warning and assume you were ready to swim. Sometimes the game will just throw out puzzles that don't particularly make sense and you either figure it out no thanks to the game or figure it out by accident without even understanding the mechanic.
8: Have I mentioned the repetitive use of those perspective puzzles? They're there. and I'm tired of them.
Tldr; not worth the time and maybe worth a dollar when on sale. It's fun for maybe a level or 2 but the way it devolves into click on everything on screen till something happens-the game is just... not worth it.

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Storyline

For the most part, the game follows the plot of the movie: amiable banker Johnny helps his friends with their day-to-day problems while preparing for his wedding to his future wife, Lisa. When he discovers that Lisa is cheating on him with his best friend Mark, Johnny is outraged and ultimately kills himself. The game diverges from the film by only showing the events from Johnny's point of view. The player controls Johnny as he engages in activities that were only referred to in the film, such as his taking on a mystery client at his bank and his turning over drug dealer Chris-R to the police. The game also contains several in-jokes that attempt to provide backstories and account for idiosyncrasies in the film and its story. For example, a scene in the game's final level attempts to explain the inexplicable disappearance of supporting character Peter from the final act by revealing that an escaped Chris-R, in an act of revenge for his arrest, stole Johnny's car during the party and killed Peter in a hit and run. The game begins with a prologue, showing Lisa and Denny at Johnny's grave (a statue of Tommy Wiseau) and then segueing into a level that occurs a day before the main action of the movie begins, in which Johnny learns that an earthquake has sealed San Francisco off from the rest of the state. The final level of the game permits players to "tie up" loose plot threads left hanging at the end of the film, such as the fate of Chris-R and Johnny's contentious relationship with his superiors at the bank. The game also includes an epilogue revealing that Johnny was, in fact, an alien being inhabiting a human body; after Johnny's "suicide", he returns to his mother ship, a giant mechanical spoon orbiting the Earth, and laments how he and his fellow extraterrestrials may never understand human life. Johnny and two of his fellow aliens then assume forms resembling a naked Tommy Wiseau and begin dancing, ending the game. Should the player collect each of the hidden spoons throughout the game, rather than simply dance during the climax the aliens fire a ray gun at Earth that reshapes the planet into a giant spoon.