In The Room: Old Sins, we return to the mysterious world of one of the most popular iOS puzzle games ever. Does Old Sins once again have enough news to offer?
The Room: Old Sins review
When the first The Room game came out in 2012, the game turned the App Store upside down. The clever puzzles that The Room fired at you were perfectly controlled by a touchscreen, and really gave the player the feeling that he or she had an influence on the object on the screen.
Six years later, not much has changed with the arrival of The Room: Old Sins. It looks a lot better graphically and gradually the puzzles have become more complex. And that’s great, because The Room: Old Sins is also accessible to players who have never touched a part in the series thanks to a clear explanation.
Old Sins also tells a grim story, which all takes place around an old dollhouse in a dusty attic. This at first sight simple model house is filled to the brim with secret hatches, entrances and other mysteries. Keeping a special lens in front of your eyes also gives you access to the hallways and rooms of this sinister house.
Pick up and combine objects
As befits a good point-and-click game, your inventory quickly fills with lots of items that you pick up from here and there. These may seem useless at first, but all come in handy once to solve a puzzle. By the way, don’t be afraid that you will get hopelessly lost: thanks to a clever hint system, The Room: Old Sins always pushes you in the right direction.
Every time Old Sins presents you with a new room, start by touching all possible objects and parts. In that respect, The Room games have always been a great precursor to the hype surrounding escape rooms. Throughout Old Sins, the quality of the puzzles remains high, and you will be amazed several times as you go one step further in solving an apparently impenetrable mystery.
You turn levers, press buttons and rotate entire objects to arrive at a solution. Because this sometimes involves relatively small switches and details, it can sometimes be fumbling on a smaller iPhone screen to arrive at a solution. The Room: Old Sins therefore plays best on the large screen of an iPad.
More of the same, still unmatched
The only thing we can charge Old Sins is that it is yet another part in the series that largely does the same. Little has changed in six years, and although that won’t be a problem for fans of The Room, we are especially curious what else developer Fireproof Games has to offer.
Nevertheless, no puzzle game has ever appeared in the App Store in those six years that can combine the same ominous feeling with clever puzzles. We can also only warmly recommend Old Sins to anyone looking for a great game for the iPhone or iPad.
→ Download The Room: Old Sins from the App Store (5.49 euros)