This game was fun and unique and just the right amount of difficult.
It made me feel smart (I am not), and was a short but satisfying game to 100%.
I recommend The Room if you like puzzles or even just want a stress free game to pass a couple of hours. The only con I could really think of is I don’t think this game offers much replayability (not the devs fault, just the nature of this kind of game).
Looking forward to playing the rest of this series !!

I may be stupid.

I've finished Lucas Pope's Return of the Obra Dinn twice, and have been craving for a good puzzle game. I've heard tons of great things about The Room and it was on a significant sale. Overwhelming positive reviews. Clearly they did something right!

This isn't a puzzle game. This is an artistic showcase. This is a very beautiful artistic showcase. I may find a way to chock up some more cash directly to the Artists who made these models and animations and made everything so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gorgeous. Art is 10/10.

Story is 5/10 - there's a decent overused "Alchemy" story being used here, it's got some nice subtle lore drops during the puzzle, nothing intrusive while still having enough of a hook to keep me curious; so it earns itself a 5 or higher. But it's not immersive, it's not original, and it has no purpose. The story could've been about some "toy maker" just asking you to test his puzzle boxes and it'd have been the same game. None of the puzzles relate to Alchemy at all.

And finally, the puzzles. 2/10 - my intellect was never challenged or provoked. This wasn't a game about figuring something out. This wasn't a game about deducing information or calculating a path. This game considers "discovering an object" to be a puzzle, not figuring out a solution. A good puzzle game doesn't force you to click on some arbitrary, non-descriptive symmetrical element of the box to unlock something. Obra Dinn tells you all of the possible names and causes of death; hell it tells you exactly the last memory you saw someone. You have to figure out what happened, but all of the discovery is done for you, not the deduction. Rise of the Golden Idol is similar. It literally tells you what to click on and gives you 35+ words to use, but you have to form the sentences to deduce what is happening in the scene. The discovery is done for you, not the deduction.

The Room instead decides to call "Find The Object" and "Find The Spot For Object" as a puzzle. No brain power used. Just randomly clicking on parts of the box incase it just spits out a key (or whatever) for absolutely no reason. Thank god I didn't pay 5$ for this game and I pray that all funds for this game go to the artists only.