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The Room 4: Old Sins

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Android • 2021

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Quick resume

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

Global score

98/100

Genres

Adventure, Puzzle, Point-and-click

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    Pros

    • Intricate and rewarding puzzles
    • Immersive lovecraftian atmosphere
    • Beautiful and detailed visuals
    • Engaging and coherent story
    • Smooth and intuitive gameplay

    Cons

    • Some control and interaction clunkiness
    • Shorter length compared to previous entries
    • Minimal customization options
    • Lack of multiplayer or social features
    • Some puzzles may feel easier or less challenging

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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      "No social or emotional connections formed; solo gameplay only."

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management roles exist; gameplay is individual and self-directed."

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    • Progression

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      "Players progress through puzzles and story, acquiring items and unlocking new areas."

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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      "The game features a mysterious narrative revealed through environmental storytelling and puzzles."

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill, Competence, Growth.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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