Quest Rooms
Genres: Puzzle, Escape Room
Play modes: co-op, singleplayer
Release Date: 11-3-2020
Rating: 3.5/5
Developer: The Spiteful Games
Our verdict
6.5/10
- Difficulty: Hard
- Players: 1–4
- Playtime: 4–8 h
Quest Rooms is a one-person project inspired by the films Cube and Escape Room. You wake up in a dark room and a voice on a TV tells you it is all a game, then you work through a large map of deadly rooms that mix riddles with traps. It plays solo or online co-op and suits groups who want a trap-filled survival run rather than a calm puzzle room.
About three quarters of its 32 Steam reviews are positive, and it is tagged as action, co-op and difficult as much as puzzle. One long review praises the dark, survival-leaning mood and the satisfaction when a room's logic clicks, but notes that weak feedback can leave you guessing.
The detailed negative review describes obstacles that behave inconsistently, poor sync for non-host players, swinging axes and collapsing floors, and checkpoints far behind the hazard, with a limited pool of 30 lives. Consider it if your group likes punishing obstacle runs and can forgive rough edges; puzzle fans looking for a classic escape room should skip it.
Pros
- Cube-style chain of deadly rooms with a tense mood
- Mixes riddles with trap and obstacle survival
- Playable solo or in online co-op
Cons
- Traps reportedly hit inconsistently and desync for non-hosts
- Checkpoints set far back after deaths
- More obstacle course than pure escape room
About
You wake up in an obscure room, a voice on the TV says that it is just a quest where you have to find the way out. Brute force is not enough to survive to get out of the room you will have to be patient, use your brain and have grit. What is starts as a game turns out to be a struggle for survival where just one wrong move can lead to exitus letalis. It will get harder and harder to get from one room to another. Who did create all this and why did you find your-self in here?
