Rooms: The Main Building

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Rooms: The Main Building
Rooms The Main Building.jpg
Nintendo DS cover
Developer(s) HandMade Game
Publisher(s) Big Fish Games (PC) [lower-alpha 1]
Hudson Entertainment
Engine
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, Wii, iOS
Release
August 11, 2008
  • Windows, Mac OS X
    • WW: August 11, 2008
    Wii, Nintendo DS
    • NA: March 23, 2010
    • JP: April 29, 2010
    • EU: June 4, 2010 (DS)
    • AU: June 17, 2010 (DS)
    iOS
    January 27, 2011 [1]
Genre(s) Puzzle
Mode(s) Single-player

Rooms: The Main Building is a puzzle game by South Korean studio HandMade Game, initially released in 2008 for Windows and Mac OS X. The game was released for the Nintendo DS and Wii by Hudson Entertainment in 2010, and for iOS in 2011.

Contents

Gameplay

The player moves rooms of a building around to help the game's protagonist reach the exit.

Development

The game was initially developed by independent game studio HandMade Game before being released by Big Fish Games in 2008 and again in 2010 by Hudson Entertainment.

Reception

The DS and Wii versions received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3] In Japan, where both versions were ported for release under the game Rooms: Fushigi na Ugoku Heya (Rooms（ルームズ） 不思議な動く部屋, Rūmuzu Fushigi na Ugoku Heya) on April 29, 2010, Famitsu gave it a score of three sevens and one eight for the DS version, [5] and one six, one eight, and two sixes for the Wii version. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ 2014 Steam release published by Zero Rock Entertainment.

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