Get-Me-Out-Of-Here Games

The Crimson Room
Recommended by my high school batchmate Shello, Toshimitsu Takagi’s “The Crimson Room” is reminiscent of Cyan’s Myst and Riven. But this game is played online and interacts with another webpage to challenge your mystery-solving smarts. You wake up in a blood red room and need to search for various objects to get yourself out. The challenge is simpler than the multiple layers and landscapes of Myst and Riven, but it’s got that “grrrrr” factor that will keep you indoors and chained to your computer for most of a morning or a day, depending on how fast you solve the mystery. Best of all, you don’t need to pay for this one. Takagi-san will accept donations via online payment if you like his game.



The Viridian Room is the next level up after you get out of the Crimson Room. Toshimitsu Takagi gets creepy here and treats us to some spine-tingling and hair-raising sound effects and gruesome things under blankets. A man, who apparently has dismal self-esteem, thinks suicidal thoughts after his girlfriend dumps him. Is he that thing under the blanket? You’ll have to find out through clues left in his diary and items strewn about his sad studio apartment. The Viridian Room is trickier than the Crimson Room. If you begin to feel that poking around the room and clicking on everything in sight is a waste of time, there are dozens of websites offering cheat solutions to get you out. Oh well! Don’t play the Viridian Room game during a chilly winter day. You might end up like its former occupant.


The Blue Chamber is easier than the Crimson and Viridian rooms, but that red telephone will really stump you. But after solving the Viridian Room, you’ll know that Takagi-san likes to work with symbols and representations. The Soul Box solution in the Viridian Room may help you get out of this one.