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3.1 / 5

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Platform
Nintendo DS
Developer Companies
HandMade Games
Publishers
Big Fish Games · Hudson Soft
Release date
11 August 2008
Languages
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English · 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Spanish · 🇫🇷 French

Summary

I love diving into the eerie world of Rooms, a DS brain‑twister where each level is a giant sliding puzzle. You step into a strange mansion and must shift sections of the floor, but only the tile your character occupies can move, forcing you to think a step ahead. Every escape unlocks a set of golden puzzle pieces that inch you closer to a final exit. The twist? Telephones that instantly teleport you across the room, explosives that blast walls, and even water‑filled chambers you have to pump out.

The game rewards clever use of oddball gadgets and makes every room feel like a miniature adventure. NPCs pop up in the sprawling Rooms Mansion and the adjacent Rooms Street, offering hints or useful items. With more than a hundred rooms to solve, the difficulty climbs without ever feeling cheap. It’s a perfect mix of point‑and‑click curiosity and classic slide‑tile logic, and I’ve found myself re‑playing just to discover new ways to shift a single tile.

Storyline

Rooms: The Main Building drops you into the eerie Rooms Mansion, a sprawling house full of secret corridors and hidden rooms. Inside, the core of the game revolves around roughly one‑hundred sliding‑puzzle challenges, each with a quirky twist that forces you to think beyond the obvious moves. The moment you solve a puzzle you’re only a step away from a new doorway, but the true test is figuring out how to escape the mansion altogether. Every solved floor feels rewarding, yet the lingering question—how to find the way home—keeps the adventure alive. The blend of atmospheric setting and mind‑bending puzzles makes the DS title a memorable retro experience.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Alternative Titles

  • Rooms_TMB.exe Windows