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* CreepyDollhouse: Crossing over with AlienGeometries, the protagonist investigates a couple's disappearance by looking into a dollhouse, which zooms in and can be interacted with as if it were a full-size house.

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* CreepyDollhouse: Crossing over with AlienGeometries, the protagonist investigates a couple's disappearance by looking into a dollhouse, which zooms in dollhouse resembling the very house it's in. You can zoom into a room using the eyepiece, and can be interacted with as if it were a full-size house.
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** H's movements whenever he completes a room appear too casual for a person who's inexperienced with the things related to the Null, and at the beginning, he brings his briefcase with him. [[spoiler:This is another hint about who he is and his occupation.]]
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** The ship ''Rose'' from the second game is seen in a puzzle in the Maritime Room, and clues there imply that Lockwood's Null sample was originally salvaged from the ship's sunken wreckage by his late father-in-law.

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** The ship ''Rose'' from the second game is seen in a puzzle in the Maritime Room, and clues there imply that Lockwood's Null sample was originally salvaged from the ship's sunken wreckage by his late father-in-law. [[spoiler:The ship's figurehead lifted from the wreckage in the submarine is the same one from the original ship.]]
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* MineralMacGuffin: The Null. It's dimension bending properties powers a lot of the puzzles and mainly explains why the [[PocketDimension dollhouse is unexpectedly big.]]

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* MineralMacGuffin: The Null. It's Its dimension bending properties powers a lot of the puzzles and mainly explains why the [[PocketDimension dollhouse is unexpectedly big.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Objects and diary entries associated with Abigail often use a swan motif, while Edward's motif is that of a stag. H's briefcase displays a serpent motif when it's opened at the end [[spoiler: hinting at his allegiance, as the Circle's ritual chamber features snake imagery in its liquid-Null fountains.]]
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* SuddenlySpeaking: While the series usually doesn't have any voice-acting, the anatomy model puzzle features spoken dialogue for the first time.

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* ApocalypticLog: The diary entries between Abigail and Edward chart Edward's descent into madness.

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* ApocalypticLog: The diary entries between Abigail and Edward chart Edward's descent into madness.madness, which you can find in several corrupted books throughout the dollhouse. Unlocking a book adds a new entry to the other ones.



* EasterEgg: Playing with the radio in the Maritime Room will reveal [[spoiler: some of H’s backstory as revealed by members of the Circle, at 57, 66, and 84.]]

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Playing with the radio in the Maritime Room will reveal [[spoiler: some of H’s backstory as revealed by members of the Circle, at 57, 66, and 84.]]
** Deliberately idling around the very straightforward final area which just involves placing an item will bring up the Hints, but [[spoiler:they instead detail Hydrus' thoughts about just running away with the Null sample rather than giving it to The Circle like he was sent to do.
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* HappilyMarried: The Lockwoods. [[spoiler: Zig-zagged in that Edward's research into the Null strains their marriage, but their love never wavers.]]

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* HappilyMarried: The Lockwoods. [[spoiler: Zig-zagged [[spoiler:Zig-zagged in that Edward's research into the Null strains their marriage, but their love never wavers.]]



* MysteriousEmployer: In the game, you never find out who sent you. [[spoiler: [[{{subverted}} Until you watch the stinger.]] ]]

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* MysteriousEmployer: In the game, you never find out who sent you. [[spoiler: [[{{subverted}} [[spoiler:[[{{subverted}} Until you watch the stinger.]] ]]]]]]



* SequelHook: [[spoiler: TheStinger has left a lot of questions that needs to be answered.]]

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* SequelHook: [[spoiler: TheStinger [[spoiler:TheStinger has left a lot of questions that needs to be answered.]]



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** SetPiecePuzzle

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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Two in rapid succession; the first comes after you break the seal and acquire the Null when you come out of the successive layers of the attic dollhouse. After the final layer, the dollhouse has changed into a perfect copy of A.S.'s home from the first and second games. Then, TheStinger reveals that the PlayerCharacter was a member of the Circle the whole time, and they have several concentrated and pure pieces of Null to work with.]]

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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Two [[spoiler:Two in rapid succession; the first comes after you break the seal and acquire the Null when you come out of the successive layers of the attic dollhouse. After the final layer, the dollhouse has changed into a perfect copy of A.S.'s home from the first and second games. Then, TheStinger reveals that the PlayerCharacter was a member of the Circle the whole time, and they have several concentrated and pure pieces of Null to work with.]]
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* EerieAnatomyModel: The Curiosity Room holds one, and several puzzles center on it.
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Abigail escaped.


** "Everyone has secrets. Mine just happens to be hidden in this box." This is referring not just to H's eyepiece but also that he is [[spoiler: sent by The Circle to collect the Null crystals made from Edward and Abigail's souls.]]

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** "Everyone has secrets. Mine just happens to be hidden in this box." This is referring not just to H's eyepiece but also that he is [[spoiler: sent by The Circle to collect the Null crystals made from Edward and Abigail's souls.Edward's soul.]]
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The Room: Old Sins is a spinoff of the mobile puzzle game series [[VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame The Room]], released on 25th January 2018 on iOS, 19th April 2018 on Android, and rereleased for PC on February 11th, 2021. You play again as a FeaturelessProtagonist different from the previous one, only known as 'H'. You are sent by mysterious employers to investigate the disappearances of high society couple Edward and Abigail Lockwood at their home of Waldegrave Manor. The game then starts you at the manor's attic, where a mechanical dollhouse based off of the manor lies. By using your eyepiece you can peer into the dollhouse and interact with it as if it is a full-sized house. From there it is up to you to solve the mystery of the couple's disappearance and to retrieve whatever artifacts they had been hiding. Including, and especially, the Null.

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The ''The Room: Old Sins Sins'' is a spinoff of the mobile puzzle game series [[VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame ''[[VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame The Room]], Room]]'', released on 25th January 2018 on iOS, 19th April 2018 on Android, and rereleased for PC on February 11th, 2021. You play again as a FeaturelessProtagonist different from the previous one, only known as 'H'. You are sent by mysterious employers to investigate the disappearances of high society couple Edward and Abigail Lockwood at their home of Waldegrave Manor. The game then starts you at the manor's attic, where a mechanical dollhouse based off of the manor lies. By using your eyepiece you can peer into the dollhouse and interact with it as if it is a full-sized house. From there it is up to you to solve the mystery of the couple's disappearance and to retrieve whatever artifacts they had been hiding. Including, and especially, the Null.
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Actually it was already on the Characters page


* WomenAreWiser: Abigail was far more sensible than her husband when it came to the dangers of the Null. [[spoiler:That's why she escaped alive, impressing even the Circle.]]

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