The Chinese Room 1.0

The Chinese Room is a curious, challenging and unique game where you must try to obtain information from your dining partner who is a rival tried whilst also trying to make sure your human body functions properly at the same time, you are some kind of robot using the human body as cover and must remember to keep control over it and act is if you are a real human this includes remembering to make your heart beat, to breathe and even to fart! Whilst trying to do all this you still have to concentrate on the conversation with the triad and make sure you are coming across as a human while trying to make the right moves to get the information that you need. You have a strange in game keyboard which has the controls to your body but also buttons that mean you can make different facial expressions which will be necessary so that you can react and show emotion to certain statements and questions and also buttons so that you can make noises whether they are of agreement or disagreement or noises of approval or disapproval.

The game provides a huge challenge and you should you forget to keep your heart beating, breathe or blink you will get a loud warning which lets you know clearly your falling behind on one of the important bodily which is useful but as you bash the buttons hoping to catch up on what you have fallen behind on you may well miss out on reacting like a human to your Triad dining partner and get found out.

The Chinese Room is a very unique but intriguing and compelling and considering it was made for Ludum Dare game jam it certainly provides a good amount of game time for a free game and the challenging nature of it means you will have to play through it a good few times at least if you are going to be able to reach the end.

You can download The Chinese Room here for free.