Escape from the Bat's Room 1.0

Warning: You need to have a special piece of software to run this game. You can find the special software right here. Then, you'll need to follow the instructions in the review to play the game.

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator, Tesshi-E, became known for short, bite-sized escape room games. Let's look at one of the first games he ever made - Escape from the Bat's Room.

To play Escape from the Bat's Room, you have to unzip all the files into the folder you extracted the FPSoftware files to. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

This game has no story, which is completely fine in this genre. Tesshi-E hasn't yet adopted their photorealistic style yet so the graphics definitely look outdated. Unfortunately, there's no English version for this game, but this game doesn't have that many hints compared to the last entries so the impact is felt a lot less.

There is only one screen in this entry - and only a few things to interact with. The puzzle itself is rather interesting, based heavily around light and its strategic use to unlock the door and leave.

All in all, Escape from the Bat's Room is a great entry by Tesshi-E and really shows off the creator's strength in escape room game design.