A little too often in Room 25, our response to landing in a room was ‘Oh, fine’.
Game shows like The Floor Is Lava and Taskmaster work by throwing together groups of people into repeated bite-sized challenges but the key is that those challenges are, well, challenging. More often though, Room 25 lacks tension.
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When I used the Control action to flip my room to the other side of the map, completely ruining my friend’s turn? When the MAC cards shifted a column and my only remaining options were to jump into a furnace or blind jump into an unrevealed room? Those were the moments where Room 25 delivers the tension and comedy of a game show. Thanks to the MAC (Move Alone Complex) cards – and to players taking the Control action – whole rows of rooms will shift around, making a mockery of your planned moves.Īt its best, Room 25 is a moderately light puzzle to play with (or against) your friends, with flashes of madness, laughter and frustration. The need to program your move adds an interesting twist to decision making – you have to respond after-the-fact to other players and to the AI of the complex itself. The actions themselves are simple: Look, Move, Push (another player), or Control. This is an efficient way to remove analysis paralysis, with little down-time waiting for your move. Players choose their actions in advance, programming one to three before the round begins.
Players might find themselves in an empty space, or blinded in the pitch dark – perhaps hacking a robot control area then next burning in a murderous fire furnace. Each time you play, the layout of rooms is randomised, and in advanced rules, the rooms themselves change. The win condition for each scenario? Find the final room – Room 25 – and escape. Think The Crystal Maze, but with chainsaws. Room 25 Ultimate joins their ranks as a fictional game show where contestants compete to avoid a gruesome end.Ĭharacters are placed in a five by five grid of rooms, each filled with difficult, dangerous or deadly challenges. This upping-the-stakes concept has been demonstrated in Hollywood in shows such as The Hunger Games and Squid Game. As we all know, the best possible prize? The opportunity to survive. They all share a common DNA – contestants playing a game for some kind of reward. Game shows are a unique, weird creation of the 20th Century.
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