neutral games

March 27, 2008 7:31 AM

Japanese Myst-like escape games from neutral (Flash)
Vision - Hints
RGB - Hints
Sphere - Hints
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 (14 comments total)

I got hooked on the genre of escape-the-room games back when someone posted The Crimson Room at 3WA (discussed previously at Mefi), and they all have different charms... but I'll say this: I thought that "Vision" was hands-down the best I've ever played.

Better even than Samorost -- which is almost outside the genre, it's so good.
posted by pineapple at 7:52 AM on March 27, 2008

samorost is a really good game, yeah. I'd never heard of neutral games, but I really dig escape flash games. thanks for the link, I'm gonna try out vision now.
posted by shmegegge at 8:33 AM on March 27, 2008

These are awesome, that East Manitoba....
posted by Pastabagel at 9:15 AM on March 27, 2008

I love escape the room games.

I hate escape the room games.
posted by DU at 9:25 AM on March 27, 2008 [2 favorites]

wow, that vision one was great.
posted by shmegegge at 9:54 AM on March 27, 2008

I'd just like to point out that I normally hate, hate, hate those confounded escape-from-the-room games for their arbitrarily illogical puzzles, but the Vision one is actually pretty awesome.
posted by neckro23 at 10:34 AM on March 27, 2008

neckro23, that was one of the things I liked best too. None of the annoying, arbitrary pixel-hunting.
posted by pineapple at 10:44 AM on March 27, 2008

I too normally don't like these things, but in Vision the creator never requires trial-and-error and has minimized its effectiveness, and everything is tied together so well in such a small space, and there's nothing that feels like it should work but doesn't, and I love it and want to have its intellectual babies.

Plus there's no terribly-acted FMV inside magic books.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:00 AM on March 27, 2008

Oh sure, emrjkc94 gets n favorites. I gets nada.
posted by juv3nal at 11:42 AM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]

Plus there's no terribly-acted FMV inside magic books.

how dare you! blasphemy!
posted by shmegegge at 11:43 AM on March 27, 2008

I'm sorry, I take it back. Myst fans, please call off the attacks.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:19 PM on March 27, 2008

No. You can't be forgiven for a thing like that.

(many many more here)
posted by flatluigi at 3:17 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oh, THANKS.

no work today. I played all these plus samorost plus crimson room, viridian room and white room.

like I say, THANKS.
posted by unSane at 6:02 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]

Wow, unSane. Most of us have experienced that same "sucked into an escape-room for a couple hours," but here and there over the course of years. You managed to mash it all into one day. Well done!
posted by pineapple at 7:55 PM on March 27, 2008