Escape from the MANEKINEKO 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 MANEKINEKO Room.

To play Escape from the MANEKINEKO 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.

There's no story to speak of here, which is fine because this genre tends to not have much story. Unfortunately, there's no English version for this game, so the hints at the bottom won't be of much help to you. You'll notice that compared to the last couple of games they've made, the art style has changed, and you can tell it's progressing to its photorealistic modern art style.

Controls are pretty much the same as most of the other entries, barring the single room entries. You click on the buttons at the side of the screen to navigate around, click on an object or door to zoom in on it, and have to figure out how to solve a number of puzzles in the room using the Manekineko to get out.

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