Room 1309

Every once in a while you have the good fortune to come across a game from a new developer that is of excellent quality. This is such a game! The puzzles are clever, intelligent, and challenging. The graphics are wonderful and perfect for the story. The music adds to the spooky atmosphere. The game is not perfect -- gameplay could be faster and on some puzzles I needed hints beyond what is offered (I was happy for online walkthroughs a couple of times) but overall I loved it! So cheers for this dev! I will happily buy any new games from them. I hope they come out with more. And btw, their other little game The Lift is also great.

I enjoy horror point and click/room escape games, and on that front this game is amazing, great story, good and gory. Now for the puzzles they were ok, unfortunately some of them seemed either impossibly obtuse, a few were fairly simple, and then some were spot on. I just wish certain things were easier to see and/or hear, a few of the clues for puzzles were hard to pick up on an iPhone screen, like the phone/bookcase clue, I could barely discern between the shades of red, that is frustrating, and things like this were why I gave three stars. The puzzles, and progression just needed more polish, or a few of them anyway, most puzzles were fun, although I did end up using the hint system because there was either seemingly no logical, or intuitive progression in some spots, or I just couldn’t see the tiny blip of the item I needed but that could just be me, my eyes are not the best, your results may vary, and still a fun game, just a bit frustrating. Almost like the developer made things harder to see to increase the difficulty/length of the game, which in my opinion is a bunk way to do that. Still for 2$ an overall fun distraction for a few hours.

There are a few interesting moments here, and I appreciate the hard work the developers put into this game. They seem to have listened to criticism and made improvements. The graphics and sound are polished, and some of the puzzles are rewarding. However, many of the puzzles are very frustrating, including an annoying sliding-tile puzzle and another puzzle that makes me wonder if the developers know how an hour hand on a clock works. The movement and tapping-interaction is also annoyingly slow. Using items is difficult because they become hidden behind your finger when you drag them. And the “scary” animations repeat endlessly, which takes away their impact. Overall, this was more frustrating than enjoyable. It lacks the magic spark of the Rusty Lake games that clearly inspired it. (I bet the Rusty Lake developers are not pleased with all the similarities.) But this developer shows promise, so I commend their hard work and wish them luck with their next game!

This is a very fun game, challenging and reminds me of the Rusty Lake games. However, there are a few things that bother me. You have to wait for the caption to disappear before you can click on anything. It’s like 3 seconds but feels really long when I just want to move on. The sensitivity is also off, you really have to push down to move anything and sometimes it would move an object no where near where I was touching. Overall it’s a good game. Would play any sequels they put out.

This was a good, creepy room escape with nice art and cleverly hidden objects! I did find that sometimes the items didn’t respond the way I expected them to and a couple of the puzzles were really hard to figure out in a way that felt unintuitive, and the bigger issue I had is that a couple points in the game *require* headphones— there are no captions for people who can’t hear or need to be playing in areas where they can’t use headphones, and that was a significant drawback.