The Viridian Room


The Viridian Room is an online escape room game that is the direct follow-up to Takagi's original  Crimson Room, which is often considered the first Escape Room video game (although M.O.T.A.S. really deserves that recognition).

Viridian Room was released around May of 2004, just several months after the Crimson room. In this sequel, you have escaped the Crimson Room with just a CD case left and you enter an even stranger new room in total darkness. From there you must not just physically escape the room, but help a spirit move on and escape, too.

The graphics and gameplay are a small step forward and it has some neat gameplay for the time-period. My biggest problem with this game, though, is it suffers from having a few too many puzzles that are not sign-posted or required you to go revisit and re-click or multi-click on previously clicked things for no real logical reason. The level of difficulty was higher than the first game and I did enjoy it, but needed the walkthrough to break through a couple brick walls that I'm sure I never would have solved on my own.

Overall, I did enjoy this walk through the past of escape room games and will try the next one in the series...The Blue Chamber!

You can play free here:
Or download it if you have the Flashpoint Infinity program on your PC.

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