Escape from the Pillars 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 TV Room.

To play Escape from the TV 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.

There's no story to speak of here, which is fine because the genre tends to not have that much story. Unfortunately, there's no English version for this game, so you won't be able to follow along if you aren't fluent. This is one of the most colorful entries in the series up to this point, with there being a sprawling neighborhood just outside of the room. It's genuinely beautiful despite the simplistic graphics.

Controls are pretty much the same as most of the other entries, barring the single room entries. You click on the buttons at the side of the screen to navigate around, click on an object or door to zoom in on it, and have to figure out how to solve a number of puzzles in the room that doesn't even have walls to get out.

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