While browsing my feeds during the inevitable mid-holiday news slump, I was pointed to some fascinating little Japanese point-and-click (or 'point-and-kick ass,' as Leigh Alexander described them over at Sexy Videogameland) puzzlers, lumped under the heading of 'room escape games.' Guest House is the latest in the series, and I spent quite a while clicking my way through all the frustrating (but not too sadistic) puzzles. It's a good way to spend a few hours on a lazy weekend. Terminal House [via Sexy Videogameland]
Holiday Weekend Timewaster: Guest House
12:00 PM on Sat Dec 29 2007
By Maggie Greene
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Woo, new game to play. Need a rest from Tf2.
Thanks.
Guest House... Much love for the flash games that are actually kind of interesting. I think I spent over an hour on Guest House before I found that last coin and finished, and then proceeded to inflict it on friends and relatives.
Pretty interesting game. I wonder if it'll work on the Wii...
Definitely worth playing. Thanks, Maggie.
where is the 2nd block shape >:(
Gah I just finished that last mario mod and now you show me this ;_;
I've already worked out what number gemini equals but i cant find the shape with three spikes on it...
Ugh... this game is kicking my ass...
The one with 3 spikes is at the bottom right hand side of the vending machine.
I managed to get through to giving her the yellow energy drink... did nothing. I think I should have given her the blue one...
*SPOILERS* I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make the oxygen pump to work. I've already given the girl 2 soft drinks, inserted the oxygen canister into the pump, put the mask and tube over the girl's face, but now nothing seems to work.
@Chrysalis: You need the fuse. It's closer than you think, but it's really easy to miss.
Arg! I'm not good with numbers! Curse you mathmatician programers!!
found it...apparently that was the end. It's fun, but it's less than an hour long.
ARgh! I have all the pieces but cant find out how much the one with 3 square ends equals!
I enjoyed this...my one problem was quite minor though it caused me to scratch my head for a while...it was the use of zodiac symbols which already have a numeric association... the simultaneous eqns were much appreciated however!
Foudn the little git, hidden in an awkward place as well!
I don't usually like these games because I get all frustrated, but aside from finding one of the coins, it was all pretty straightforward. I enjoyed this one.
I had to cheat to find the silver coin, I would've probably spent two more hours clicking on every surface and still not found it. Pff.
got her breathing but have only given her one drink :/
@Maldron:
Same here. I found everything except that darn coin.
Well, that's done. I nearly finished it without the fourth chit by breaking down all the probable combinations...
...damn my programmatic tendencies!
I hate you silver coin :O
where the hell is this silver coin!
Random clicking does wonders... which means they didnt put enough thought into properly laying out the design of the room. (I seem to have pulled the spark plug out of thin air.) Resolution needs to be bumped quite a bit.
@Maldron: Wheres the silver coin? :(
@Mizzuru: the silver coin is needlessly hard.
can some one link me to a guide, if i dotn solve this im not sleeping
apologies for the double post but:
@Big_Jock: the silver coin is a lie!
LOLs!
give us a clue for the silver coin please
Here's a clue: If you want to cheat the silver coin out of hiding, search for the game on google like I did and get it. I'm not going to post a spoiler that will ruin the game for other people in this post, it's not my style.
@Maldron: thats what ive been doing but it really doesnt make for much of a game :/
Oh, the look on your face as you stand by that lever.
@fbdeluxe: I only cheated the silver coin, the rest of it I worked out for myself. And I spent a good twenty minutes clicking everywhere I could think of looking for that extra coin, after which I preferred to just get it and keep playing. Sadly, there wasn't much to do past that point.
I would have never found where it was hidden, to be honest, without a guide's help. I don't suggest that people approach these games with a guide in hand from the start, but there are the occasional stumbling blocks that some people won't be able to get past. The game can be ruined both ways - by the stumbling blocks, and by knowing everything in advance. It's a real shame, because these games do require a bit of thought.
@Yuki: Roflmao yeah :D
Well thats another time waster out of the way, i am free at last.
I feel like ive clicked every area :(
Woot i found it! horribly small area you have to click.
energy drinks can cure anything
My biggest problems:
Not popping off the Oxygen cap
The fuse (So hard to see and easy to miss)
This was fun. The music just really creeped me out though.
A shame it was so short =(
***SILVER COIN SPOILER***
Y'know that thing with the wires and the screws? Look at it, then click on top of it.
Dirty, dirty, dirty. They should have called this game "Randomly Click Around the Damn Place Until You Get Out". The prequel doesn't seem to be much better, but I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT. :(
Very nice. But when one item covers up the fuse... yeaaah. Real PITA.
Otherwise, very nice.
@rannic: Most of these room escape games I have playerd are like that, with something deviously and randomly hidden, though these seem especially bad about that. Kind of fun, though.
They make you pop your own tab for soda?!?!!
GAH! that took me 20 minutes alone.. but beat the stupid thing after that
I hate these games.
Terminal House *SPOILER*
You mean I'm supposed to take specific photos of what's being projected on the screen and then upload those photos into a computer and beat a certain score in order to get coins to buy sodas with so I can defeat a hidden arm-wrestling machine to get out?
How the fuck did I miss that? It's so obvious.
When done right, these sort of games could be incredible. Unfortunately, they're very hard to do right, as these specific games so clearly illustrate.
"Silent Hill" 4: The Room should have been a room escape game. Though I am one of the few who enjoyed it anyway.
@Bishmon: TO be fair, the linearity makes it fairly obvious. I mean, there is not much else you can do.
Ah, I love Room Escape games.
BTW, for those who've played it before the Mystery of Time and Space game has received a large expansion update.
re:silent hill; with exception to the clunky action and crappy graphics, that game was awsome
FUN GAME! liked it. One thing: HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW YOU'RE A BLUE MAN?
@BudhaCronX: You watch the intro. =)
Not a guesthouse I ever want to attend.
That walk out looked far...
These games can be brilliant at times, so lazy and artificially difficult at others. The cipher was great, but the silver coin was obnoxious. This game was ok but it was short/easy compared to some of the other ones I played. I think the first I played was the green room or blue room or something like that. THere was a red room too. I forget, but those were much better
played this a month or so back, was fun, decent example of the genre. i'm a bit addicted to these flash room escape games.
**SPOILERS** kind of...
Lol took me 10 minutes to do it. 5 of those minutes was me trying to figure out what the in the hell that plastic shaped object was...then i figured out it attached to the tube and I felt really stupid...
Anyone else wondering why they were in a maximum security hospital room? There was like 20 doors till the exit.
Aw, hotspot hunting is no fun.
Really enjoyed that. Usually I give up on these games after about 30 minutes of random clicking, but I figured this one out all by myself.
"a few hours" though? Not if you're actually playing the game - maybe if you have it on another tab and go back to it for a minute or so every while.