Recent reviews by Bartle

The Room Two doubles down on everything that made the first game good: the occult mystery themes are back in spades as you retrace the steps of those who came before you to learn the history of the strange artefacts you're surrounded with.

This time around, puzzles revolve around both the artefacts themselves and the environments surrounding them, with historically- and geographically-varied environments allowing for some really interesting aesthetics, from the hold of a ship that recovered a puzzle box from the depths of the ocean to an old-fashioned parlour lounge that held a seance.

The puzzles themselves are pretty standard for the genre, but that isn't a bad thing; figuring out the mechanisms behind a lock and being presented with a new piece of information or another key feels intuitive and rewarding, and no puzzles stood out as particularly strange or out of place for the game's intended aesthetics. The only times I got stuck were due to me not exploring enough, or forgetting that I'd seen something before. Everything flows very logically together, and stages are surprisingly intricate and lengthy without ever feeling too long.

Overall The Room Two is a straight upgrade to the first game, so if you enjoyed that there's absolutely no reason to not play the second.

man is choze, slav am oby

I thought from the fact the game relies solely on a terminal interface that it would be a pretty realistic hackers-on-steroids style hacking game. I thought wrong.

Access account. Read email with "cryptic" clue to next account's username and password. Repeat ad nauseam.
By the time I realised it wasn't going to get any better, I was 30 levels deep and had to keep going. Lucky it's only an hour and a half.

Buy this if:
you're a baby with unusually low IQ for someone your age and are looking for something a little less challenging than your speak and spell
you want to make hackers on CSI look realistic by comparison

"the letters you pause on when you sing the alphabet song" is the password hint from a level about two thirds into the game, in case you don't believe me about the whole "stupid riddles for stupider babies" thing.