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Home Latest Film TV Club Music Games Video TV Reviews Reviews And more Recommends The Room games are a love letter to beautiful, haunted things William Hughes 61920 12:00AM Filed to: What Are You Playing This Weekend What Are You Playing This Weekend The Room The Room VR: A Dark Matter The Room: Old Sins 31 2 The Room: Old Sins Screenshot: Fireproof Games Every Friday, A.V.

Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend Advertisement For as much as movie producers have driven themselves nuts over the years, trying to recreate the look and feel of video games in the real worldan endeavor thats led to everything from Dennis Hopper in Jurassic cornrows to James Marsden cracking shit jokes with a digital hedgehog the escape room people got it pretty much in one.

Video games have their own logic, one that has to be respected, even when (possibly even especially when) it doesnt map very well onto the real world.

Marry that love of abstract rules to the creation of an impossible or fantastical space, and youre far closer to putting people inside a video game than the folks behind Hitman or Warcraft could ever hope to get.

As a consequence, the relationship between escape rooms and video games has gotten weirdly recursive over the last few years, a trend that the COVID-19 lockdowns have only exacerbated.

With their physical doors shuttered, many escape room companies have taken their game design skills online, crafting (often shockingly high-quality) digital experiences that you and your Zoom buddies can play through from your own personal quarantine zones.

At the same time, we now have digital titles like Nocturnal Games The Escaper, which aim to explicitly recreate the feeling of paying 40 to spin combination locks in an office rental space thats been converted into an evil labVictorian sitting roomold-school video game arcadeetc.

And thats to say nothing of the whole side industry of escape-rooms-in-a-box, which can vary widely in how strong an experience they give you and your family as you huddle around the dinner table, spinning codewheels and arguing about when its time to check the hints.

Best Escape Room Games Series Of Digital

Advertisement And yet, for all these efforts, theres still one series of digital escape rooms that take the brass ring when it comes to getting that all-important feeling of strange logic in strange places rightand then promptly take that brass ring, attach it to some massive mechanical monstrosity, and ask you to fiddle with it until the whole thing goes satisfyingly Click Were talking, of course, about Fireproof Games The Room seriesstill the best prospect going to get that all-important Does this makes sense I think this makes sense.

This absolutely makes sense sensation running through the back of your brain.

That includes the series latest game, The Room VR: A Dark Matter, which took the franchises long-running obsession with flipping switches, turning knobs, and (occasionally) wrestling with dark magicks to its wonderfully illogical extreme.

Even if you dont want to shell out for VR, though, there are still four other Room games out there waiting for you, each filled with fantastical contraptions hoping to lure you in.

Sometimes literally, since the games have a running theme of the player being pulled deep within various clockwork devices.) What makes the gamesall available for a song on iOS or Android, by the bydifferent from their contemporaries (including many of the offerings from actual escape room companies), is their tactile, physical nature.

Even when theyre clearly impossiblelike the Game Of Thrones -intro-esque city model that makes up most of the second chapter of The Room Three, or the elaborate doll house that occupies most of your time in the fourth game, Old Sins they still have an internal logic, and a beauty and presence that so many games of this ilk lack.

One of the reasons The Room VR is so satisfying is that the motion controllers allow you to physically reach out to slide every slide and flick every switch.) Advertisement The best video gamesand escape rooms, for that mattercreate spaces that feel like they couldnt exist in the real world, liminal realities where you can trick your brain into believing that a different set of rules might possibly apply.

The Room games might occasionally feint toward horrorspooky tendrils abound.

But in their devotion to the forging of beautiful, haunted objects, they serve as clockwork engines in the service of creating wonder.

Its something that few of their contemporaries, real or otherwise, have even come close to matching.

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