Escape from the Cave Room 1.0

Warning: You need to have a special piece of software to run this game. You can find the special software right here. Then, you'll need to follow the instructions in the review to play the game.

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator, Tesshi-E, became known for short, bite-sized escape room games. Let's look at one of the first games he ever made - Escape from the Cave Room.

To play Escape from the Cave Room, you have to unzip all the files into the folder you extracted the FPSoftware files to. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

The story's very light, with only the protagonist's thoughts being conveyed in the bottom. Unfortunately, there's no English version for this game, so you won't be able to follow along if you aren't fluent. This is a very unique entry in that it utilizes light much more than most escape games.

Building off of the light theme, the game starts off with you in pitch darkness and having to light your match to even see anything. Something this game introduces is a special examine item in your inventory button so you can zoom in and interact with the item closely. This will prove essential as you try to escape from the cave.

All in all, Escape from the Cave Room is a great entry by Tesshi-E and really shows off the creator's strength in escape room game design.