The Room Series Alternatives and Similar Games

Inspired by the works of Da Vinci, this puzzle game puts you in the shoes of Da Vinci’s apprentice searching for his master who has suddenly disappeared. This complex puzzle game is designed as a first-person point & click, allowing you to explore detailed rooms of Da Vinci’s house, searching for various objects and even escaping certain rooms. After playing The Room you’ll most likely feel at home with all the mechanical puzzles there is to solve. Oh, and they’re not easy. If you’re looking for more of The Room, then you should check out this title.

A remaster of Myst, a point & click classic, this first-person puzzler has you explore and solve puzzles on Myst Island, a place featuring 4 different ‘Ages’ you can travel to. One Age may have things that could be useful in the other Age. Throughout your journey you’ll slowly uncover the story as you enjoy the beautiful sights and appreciate the clever puzzle and world design. You can even choose whether to play it as a point & click game, like the original, or as a fully-fledged first-person title with full freedom to explore. Mysterious and challenging, realMyst is not to be missed if you’re a fan of puzzle-adventure games. If you happen to have a Nintendo Switch and would like to play it there, then you’re in luck, as it will be out there soon, or out already by the time you read this.

The Witness is filled to the brim with puzzles, a diverse range of puzzles that all have a grid as the basic layout to solve puzzles on. While the puzzles can be quite difficult to solve, the open-world island is a joy to see and explore in first-person perspective. It’s very colorful and well-made. Puzzles can even require you to carefully observe the environment around you in order to figure out the solution. This game has rules of its own, rules you’ll have to figure out. If you’re looking for some ultra-hard puzzle-solving, then The Witness doesn’t disappoint.

Possibly shorter than The Room titles depending on how quick you are, Monument Valley features interesting constructions which Princess Ida must navigate through to progress forward. These minimalistic and visually-pleasing areas feature many optical illusions you must find out and solve, in order to form paths that lead the princess to the exit. It’s a very interesting title you’ll certainly enjoy playing through on your mobile device. If you’ve already played it or are curious if there’s a sequel, well, there is, and there’s even a 3rd entry in the works.

This unique point & click puzzler puts you in a robotic 2D world where you must explore the Machinarium city and solve puzzles to save your girlfriend Berta from Black Cap Brotherhood. On your quest to take down this gang you’ll interact with various characters, but the dialogue with machines isn’t your ordinary text, no. Here, dialogue takes the form of animated images drawn on a speech bubble. Expect not only smart, difficult puzzles, but also a good story, an immersive soundtrack and a detailed hand-drawn world to explore. Machinarium is long enough to keep you interested from start to finish, but not too long to overstay its welcome. It’s around the length of The Room Three.

If you’re looking for a puzzle game where you get to play as a secret agent, then look no further. This stylish 2D point & click has you search for spy Ruby La Rouge throughout her hideout area that is packed with puzzles to traverse your way through. Carefully analyze each room that may contain useful objects for future puzzles. It’s a very interesting, mysterious game that you’ll surely enjoy if you like espionage themes.

The Silent Age is a time-travelling 2D point & click puzzler where you play as a janitor named Joe trying to uncover what caused mankind to go extinct. Find the answer for a man from the future desperately looking for it using a time travel device that takes Joe from his 1972 to 2012. This device is essential to solving interesting puzzles and progressing forward. It’s a short adventure that may last you about 3 hours, but it’s an adventure with a great narrative and well-designed puzzles that are a good challenge but not insanely difficult.

If you’re okay with more complex machinery, then jump into this first-person puzzle game that takes place on an eerie and detailed island. The environments are very well-designed, and so too are the logical puzzles, almost all of which are great. You can even use a notebook in-game to take screenshots and even lets you type whatever you want below the saved picture. Longer than all of The Room games combined, and made by only 4 Hungarian graduate students, Quern: Undying Thoughts is an excellent, complete game you don’t want to miss.

Made by one man, The Eyes of Ara is yet another first-person point & click puzzle game that is full of mystery. This one has you solve a myriad of different puzzles in an old medieval castle packed with secrets. Step foot onto the island and into the fortress as you try to uncover the source of the signal broadcasted from the castle. Many stories are buried within, waiting for you to read them. Oh and don’t worry, if you haven’t had enough of complicated contraptions, then The Eyes of Ara is here to give you more, and for a game made by one person, it’s a fantastic game that is no walk in the park, interesting not only mechanically, but also narratively and environmentally.