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The RPS Game Club pick for June is The Tartarus Key!You have mere minutes to escape from this locked room to play it
You have mere minutes to escape from this locked room to play it
Image credit:Armor Games Studios, Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Armor Games Studios, Rock Paper Shotgun
You play as Alex Young, a young woman who awakens in a locked study with no memory of how she got there. Step into her shoes to escape that room and you’ll soon discover that you’re not alone in the mansion: there are a number of other people trapped there, and it’s up to you to save them - or fail, and watch their grisly deaths. It’s a first person puzzle game with a vintage thriller vibe, and it plays with tropes of the genre in really fun ways. Plus the puzzles are fiendishly difficult, too. You can readmy reviewto find out why and how I liked it.
The Tartarus Key - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
The Tartarus Key - Launch Trailer
I’m also aware that nailspuzzle gamesthat require you to pay attention to everything you’ve been told to find the right solution aren’t everyone’s cup of tea - but as luck would have it, you can try a free demo of the first couple of puzzles in The Tartarus Key via its Steam page, to get a feel for it.
You don’t have to buy the game to enjoy our enjoyment of it, though. As is our way with the RPS Game Club, we’ll post articles about it over the month sharing our thoughts, and at the end of the month we’ll have a liveblog where you can all join in, whether you played it or no. These have been great fun in the past, and this time should be no different.
I’m looking forward to finding out what everyone thinks, and particularly if anyone on staffdoesn’tlike it, because then I’ll put them in a cage and tell them they have to use a piece of string to form the correct complex geometric pattern using the bars of their cage to get out. So there. I hope you all enjoy it too, readers, and you should still join us for the liveblog chat at the end of the month. Don’t worry. Legally I can’t put any ofyouin cages.
