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puzzle video game
Rooms: The Main Building
By Hudson Soft, released 1 Jan 2008
- macOS
- Nintendo DS
- Microsoft Windows
- Wii
What it is
Rooms: The Main Building is a puzzle adventure from Hudson Soft built around sliding-room puzzles. Set in Rooms Mansion, it presents more than 100 rooms where you move the character across tiles and shift the room section beneath them to reach an exit. Each room requires planning, since only the tile the character stands on can be moved. Objects and devices offer further ways through: telephones can transport you across a room, explosives can break walls or obstacles, and water-filled rooms may need to be pumped out. Escaping puzzles awards golden puzzle pieces needed to secure a way home. The game also includes the Rooms Street and Rooms Mansion areas, where you can interact with non-player characters and find useful items. The Steam listing includes single-player, trading cards, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. Steam platforms are Windows and macOS; the game is also listed for Nintendo DS and Wii, including exclusive levels for those versions.
What players like, and what they don't
- More than 100 sliding puzzles
- Rooms can be shifted to reach exits
- Objects include teleporting telephones and explosives
- Additional areas feature characters and useful items
- Single-player only
- Steam listing is limited to Windows and macOS
Who it suits
This suits players who enjoy spatial puzzles, object-based problem solving, and exploring rooms with unusual devices. The listed versions cover Windows, macOS, Nintendo DS, and Wii.
Rooms: The Main Building combines sliding-tile logic with room-specific objects and hazards. Players who want a puzzle game built around changing the space itself have more than 100 rooms to work through.
