History VideoGame / TheRoomOldSins

* MinimalistCast: The cast consists of just [[PlayerCharacter you]], a [[spoiler: dead man, and an absent woman]].

* 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.]]

* 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.]]
* YouWakeUpInARoom: Averted. The player and the main character knows full well why they are in the attic. [[spoiler: The motivations of both people are not necessarily the same however.]]

* BigFancyHouse: Waldegrave Manor. Highlights include a Maritime Room, a Curiosity Room, and a Japanese Room.
* CallBack: Several events from the original trilogy are referenced
** Your character is back exploring the attic, just like in the first game
** 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.
** One of the marble maze projections in the Curiosity Room shows [[MadScientistLaboratory Professor de Montfaucon's tower laboratory]] from the second game, as well as a steppe-pyramid that might be the same game's Mesoamerican temple.
** Tentacles devouring the dollhouse mirrors the fate of [[spoiler: AS's house in the second game and Grey Holm in two endings of the third game]]

* ClockPunk: The game's aesthetics

* EasterEgg:
** Abigail's drawings of the various apparatus Edward received from the Circle can be found on a chair in the Curiosity Room, among them is a drawing of the Null-harnessing device from the ''very first game''.
** 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.]]

* ForeignCultureFetish: As seen in the Curiosity Room and the Japanese Room

* GeniusLoci: The dollhouse seems to have a mind of its own, such as replacing all the contents of books with thoughts of its occupants

* GentlemanAdventurer: Hugo Waldegrave, Abigail's father
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Your Eyepiece exposes hidden information and allows you to go into tiny spaces

* InkblotTest: Each diary entry is accompanied with silhouettes done in this style
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The giant Japanese dragons in the Japanese Room
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: [[spoiler: Edward to Abigail]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: An ominous version of the original trilogy's theme song plays when an artefact is found

* MinimalistCast: The cast consists of just [[PlayerCharacter you]], a [[spoiler: dead man, and an absent woman]]

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

* OminousLatinChanting: Present in TheStinger
* PlayerInventory: Used to carry items from one room/dimension space of the dollhouse to the outside/another room

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

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: The giant Japanese dragons in the Japanese Room

** One of the marble maze projections in the Curiosity Room shows [[MadScientistLaboratory Professor de Montfaucon's tower laboratory]] from the second game.

** 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 salvaged from the seabed wreckage of the ''Helena'' by his late father-in-law.

** 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 salvaged from the seabed wreckage of the ''Helena''.

* GentlemanAdventurer: Hugo Waldegrave, Abrigail's father

** The ship Rose from the second game is seen in a puzzle in the Maritime room

The Room: Old Sins is a spinoff of the mobile puzzle game series [[VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame The Room]], released on 25th January 2018 on iOS and 19th April 2018 on Android. 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.

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

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: There is a statue of a giant octopus destroying a pagoda in the Japanese room. [[spoiler: There are also tentacles slowly destroying the dollhouse.]]

* [[spoiler:VillainEpisode]]

* YouWakeUpInARoom: Adverted. The player and the main character knows full well why they are in the attic. [[spoiler: The motivations of both people are not necessarily the same however.]]

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

* Easter Egg: Playing with the radio in the Mariner Room will reveal some of H’s backstory as revealed by members of the Circle, at 57, 66, and 84.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:"The Circle", a mysterious group of occult-interested individuals, mentioned only briefly by A.S. in the original game, take center stage in this game; they are [[GreaterScopeVillain the ones who end up (inadvertently) setting the events of the game in motion]], and [[VillainProtagonist the player ultimately turns out to be one of their agents]].]]

* AlienGeometries Some of the puzzles feature them

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

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:"The Circle", a mysterious group of occult-interested individuals mentioned only briefly by A.S. in the original game, take center stage in this game; they are [[GreaterScopeVillain the ones who end up (inadvertently) set the events of the game in motion]], and [[VillainProtagonist the player ultimately turns out to be one of their agents]].]]

The Room: Old Sins is a spinoff of the mobile puzzle game series [[VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame The Room]], released on 25th January 2017 on iOS. 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.

* AllThereInTheManual: Do you need to know anything about the Lockwoods to progress through the game? Nah...

** "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: to collect the Null crystals made from Edward and Abigail's souls.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: If you are quick enough, you will be able to see [[spoiler: the final dollhouse alongside the corpse of Edward]] illuminated by the lightening flash when you first enter the game.