The Room 4: Old Sins
Fireproof Games are proud to bring the fourth instalment of the critically acclaimed game series ‘The Room’ to PC. The Room 4: Old Sins features a strange, multi-room dollhouse to explore and continues the engaging puzzle gameplay of its predecessors set against the background of a tragic story. In a considerable visual upgrade from the mobile release, Fireproof Games have re-built, re-textured and re-lit every shiny object and atmospheric environment in the game to pull players further into the mysterious world of The Room. The story of The Room 4: Old Sins centres on the sudden disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife which provokes the hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse… Explore unsettling locations, follow obscure clues and manipulate bizarre contraptions to uncover the mysteries within Waldegrave Manor.
Game Discussion
Steam User 8
The Room3: "We have given everything and we are spent. Go away now"
The Room4: Akshually we aren't done yet. Here is our true Pièce de résistance"
Game is seemingly smaller in size after the ever expanding Room3 that may have been a bit too much. In this game we focus on just one doll house. But what a house it is. Excellent stuff and very entertaining.
Steam User 9
The Room 4: Old Sins is a puzzle game and the last non-VR game in the series. In this game you once again solve puzzles and unravel a subtle story, in this one less connected to the others in the series.
The puzzles in this game are set within a single large dollhouse. You'll explore the rooms within. At times, you'll have multiple rooms to work between, but it never feels like an overwhelming amount of space to search. I did need to get hints a few times, usually because I either couldn't find something small or couldn't tell that an object was moveable. It was usually pretty easy to tell what the more complicated puzzles were going for.
Overall, The Room 4 is on par with the other games in the series. I thought the puzzles were just challenging enough and I enjoyed the slightly more defined story. 8/10
Steam User 6
If you've played the other games in the Room series you more or less know what to expect. I consider this game easier especially than its previous entry, as it locks off areas as you complete them so there's a lot less guesswork about where to go next. It has a hint system which I greatly appreciate, and the hints are written so that the first one is generally just a nudge to get you pointed in the right direction, which is often all I need. I think I only needed that kind of outright help on a couple of puzzles, where in The Room 3 I used the hint system as a crutch a lot more than I'd like to admit.
That said, if you liked the challenge of the Room 3 you might be disappointed by this game; most puzzles hint at (or sometimes outright telegraph) their solution as part of the design; there were very few moments where I thought I was super clever for figuring something out. If you value that feeling, I'd definitely toggle the hint system off.
The atmosphere of the game is excellent as is usually the case, a generally creepy vibe with some eldritch horror mixed in. The story is nothing to write home about, though at least it isn't quite so difficult-to-parse as previous games. All in all, it was a fun way to spend a few hours, and the setting was gorgeously-rendered and polished, though I wish it was a bit longer.
Steam User 6
I finished this part within 5 hours. None of the puzzles felt too long or tedious, and there wasn't a single moment where I felt like a puzzle didn't make any sense, which is unfortunately common in these types of games these days.
Overall a fantastic game, and one of my absolute favorite parts in the "The Room" series!
Steam User 6
The Room 4 is the final game in the series so far and in my opinion the magnum opus!
While the story never really mattered in this series, the previous 3 titles had some connections.
Room 4 does not, which means you can play it as a standalone, no previous knowledge required.
Newcomers can start with this one, it is a great entry point!
The Room 4 incorporates the best from all previous parts and greatly improves on any shortcomings.
While Room 1 played out in a single room dealing with a single multi-layered puzzle artifact, Room 2 gave huge rooms containing multiple puzzles that could either be solved on their own or provide/require items from other puzzles in that same room. Room 3 gave a huge mansion that overwhelmed the player with multiple large rooms like in the 2nd game, but instead gave them to us all at once. The puzzles now were connected between all rooms and required a lot of backtracking and frustrating travel animations.
Room 4 instead plays out in a single room, dealing with one artifact in the center, the dollhouse. (Just like in Room 1).
It alone is a huge puzzle you can rotate and solve from various angles. Once you unlock individual rooms, you can easily enter/exit them which removes the annoying traveling introduced in Room 3.
Regarding the puzzles, they are as usually ingenious but not impossible.
The graphics and visuals are amazing. No drowning in shadows like Room 2 did.
In my opinion, this is the best game of the series.
This British indie game is fairly short and cheap, definitely worth checking out.
Steam User 6
Easily one the best in the series, if not better than the original. It takes the concepts from all previous games and mixes them together into a dollhouse. Visually stunning as always and offering a new story that continues the hunt for the null element. This series has been amazing and I can't wait for another entry from the devs.
Steam User 6
Have to say i just love these games. A bit too easy but sometimes you pull your hair because you're stuck. I really wish they would make The Room 5 instead of the VR versions