Hi everyone who’s enjoyed playing this room!
I’m excited to share that I’ve just released a brand new escape room, “The Mysterious Room” . If you’re ready for another thrilling challenge filled with puzzles and mystery, check it out here! I’d love to hear your thoughts.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3352119009

Hi @OCDCoder, thanks so much for your super kind words and for playing my rooms. 😊 Wow, you did the dormitory part without any clues – that’s really impressive! Well done! 😊 I’ll definitely take a look at the potential issue of getting trapped in the mistress’s office [\spoiler]. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

I discovered the original Trapped Soul last night and absolutely loved it! I'd planned to take a quick peek at this one and turn in for the night but, well, it's daylight now... LOL I love the way your mind works, I love your puzzles! I did want to let you know one issue I tripped over. If you're in the office, you can reach the headmistress portrait through the stained glass wall and trap yourself in the room. Heh, oops. (At least it was before I got to the bedroom. WHICH I DID WITHOUT SPOILERS, I'm so proud to say!) Now, I should probably get some sleep. Though I'm kind of wanting to check out part three...

Hi @-Forest-, thank you for checking out The Orphanage. :) Thanks a million for your nice comments. As for the crosses puzzle , I agree it's one of the harder puzzles in the room. Great that you managed to solve it after all and proceed. As for the ghost, it definitely would be crepier if it was more animated. I will consider to implement some animation. . Thanks again for your feedback and for playing my room.

Playing Linux. Won't load. Drops back to Library. Tried twice, watched and only using like 50% of memory, CPU high while loading, drops down to like 76% use and then quits to Library.
Decided to use Proton Experimental with Escape Sim and now it loads.

WoW, pretty good. Didn't really like the crosses in the dining room. Too hard to figure out the stirring direction from the numbers I got the 7586 one think by accident, then the 3142 it seemed to start with the left most cross even though it didn't line up with the numbers. Maybe I just messed it up. Like I did the Left porridge placement. I had one x in wrong place.

Wish the game would let the ghost act more animated, would be creepier. Still you make great maps!

Hi @k8sparrot, thank you so much for playing The Orphanage. Really happy to hear you enjoyed it. :)

I found no bugs and really enjoyed the room! Off to play room 3 now...thanks!

Hahaha no need to thank me! And awesome. :D I wish you the best of luck!

Thank you so much, @handsinthegarden. :) :) I really appreciate your kind words. :) And trust me, I will reach out to you when I need testing done for my next room. :)

@SuperFriiz for sure! My best friend and I seem to be great at breaking things!! hahaha. the ultimate testers here :) Please, don't stop making levels while you can. I love that you provide story, lore, and puzzles that make you actually have to think.

Haha, yeah, they ARE haunting you! ;) That really sounds strange, though, and so frustrating to loose an item that you need to proceed. I haven't managed to loose anything in the room myself when test playing it. But I will check the settings for those items and have a look at the floor colliders. :) Yes, I'm currently working on a new room. I will definitely reach out to you when I need the testing done. :)

I know, right?! XD They are haunting us! But it really is so interesting. That time with the door...that was at the very very beginning, when you get the camera and light.

Also my friend managed to have a plank disappear. If you ever need testing done....ask me because I apparently break everything LOL

Oh no, @handsinthegarden, you are being so unlucky these days. :) I think you are being haunted under mysterious circumstances. ;) Referring to attempt 3, can I ask you what puzzle you had just solved for the front door to creak? For the front door to open you must use the final exit key that you get in the hidden room behind the cabinet in the Dining Hall . Did you come so far? When you have solved the big Dormitory puzzle, you do hear a creaking sound of a door opening. However, it's not from the front door. It's from the door to the Dining Hall that opens. Maybe that's the creaking sound you heard? I'm sorry you had all this bad luck. I hope you'll try once more and this time have succes in escaping and setting the poor souls free. :)

Attempt 3, the front door creaked but didn't open. Why does this hate us. XD

I am so sorry T_T I love what you do. Your puzzles don't like us though XD Photograph clipped into the floor and the floor swallowed my camera...

Thank you so, so much, @NightShadeMama and @Funquare! :)

Bravo !

@SuperFriiz thank you! and i did try it again with a speed run. and it did work out! great room!

Hi @NightShadeMama, thanks a million for your kind words. :) So happy you loved it. Sorry to hear it glitched for you so close to the ending. Have you tried a speed run through the room and exited the room successfully? :) In the meantime, I will try and see if I can replicate the issue myself. Hopefully, it was only a one-time glitch. :)

Amazing Game! loved it . I wish I could have finished it though. Some how when I unlocked the third pillar the came glitched me to being stuck under the chest, so I could not get the key or finish the game . :(

Hi @VILLAger, thanks a lot for your kind words - so happy you enjoyed playing this room. :) And thanks for reporting the multiplayer issue with the lamp puzzle . It has now been fixed.

Hi, one puzzle did not activate for us (2players) after inputting the polished lamps and NICHOLAS the lights did not flash and we needed to look up what the problem / solution was

Thanks for the room, it was clever and fun

Hi guys, check out my new room! :)
"The Haunted Hotel (The Trapped Soul 3)":
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892452878

@BeetleBug16, thanks for playing this room. I have just published an update that should fix this issue for you and your brother. Have great fun playing the rest of the room! Hope you'll enjoy! :)

Me and my brother have tried to play this one through several times and always get stuck at the dining room. the door doesn't seem to open for us.

Thank you so much for your kind words, @Ember. It's really appreciated. :) Thanks for reporting this issue. I have made some adjustments to avoid this and uploaded a new version of the room so you won't get trapped again. :) Please let me know once you complete the room completely. :) If you want to skip the big logic puzzle in the dormitory, when you re-play the room, you can always push the auto-skip puzzle button in the emergency cabinet. :)

This is very well done and the complexity is stunning.
@SuperFriiz, I'm stuck in the horror moment after solving the dormitory. The ghosts are gone, the numbers are on the floor, the flash effect is still hanging around, and I can't move out of a small space by the corner of the linen closet. No clue if it makes any difference, but I'm playing singleplayer.

@ronnoypi, happy to hear that. Really appreciate you liked it. :)

@SuperFriiz, It works!! thanks so much, great map!

@ronnoypi, I have now fixed the issue and had it tested in other instances of Escaspe Simulator as well on other computers. :) So fingers crossed ... you should now be able to play without experiencing the issue. :) I hope this also solves the issues you were having, @Unifeeder. :)

@SuperFriiz Room glitch is still happening both in single and multiplayer

@ronnoypi, thanks a lot for proving the video link showing the issue clearly. :) I have now implemented some changes in the way the transformation takes place, which - I hope - solves the issue that you have. Please let me know if this is the case :) - otherwise, I will look more into it this weekend.

@SuperFriiz https://insights.gg/dashboard/video/3fcXLRhNt4AJeiDj55RuNp/replay


Here it is in single player. I am able to input the code onto the door, and when i do, it locks me in the actual column room with the rotatable columns with no exit

(@ronnoypi - continued): Just to understand it correctly, you enter the room when it’s dark, i.e. before the transformation into the pink column room, right? And already at this point, you see the door with the lock and are able to input the code? You shouldn’t be able to do this at this point. The transformation of the dark room into the pink column room should only trigger, once all players are gathered in the dark room. The door with the lock should only appear once the columns have been turned correctly. So, to me it seems that like the trigger somehow doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. You didn’t experience the issue when you played multiplayer before, right? Maybe it’s due to the recent update of Escape Simulator editor. I will check this and make relevant corrections, if possible, very soon. Thanks again for reporting and for wanting other people to play this room, too. :)

Hi @ronnoypi, thanks a lot for coming back to play this room again with other people. :) I’m sorry you are experiencing issues with the column room. I also got another report about this. I’m not sure what causes this. I have tried to go through every element and have found nothing that would cause such an error. However, do you only experience this issue when you are playing this room multiplayer? I cannot replicate the issue myself as I’m only testing this as a single player. But I will make sure to get it tested in multiplayer mode. :)

Hi @superfriiz, column room is broken. ive played this level multiplayer before, and am coming back to show other people, but cannot get passed the column room. I can input the code to the door without turning the columns, but when the door opens, it teleports us to the actual column room and traps us.

Hi @UniFeeder, Thanks for reporting this. :) I have tried to see if I could recreate this peculiar instant teleporation out of the column room, but I had no success in doing so. Could you maybe try again and this time stand completely still, once the room starts changing form, and see if this has any impact? :) It shouldn't have any impact though, but it's worth trying. The front door will close at a later point. It will stay open, until the first time you use the camera. I hope you will be able to play the room. :)

something is not working for me, the front door doesnt close and I get teleported out of the column room instantly. I have tried restarting but nothing changed, tried also following the video guide few times but it didnt help either. I really wish to play this room.

@UncleMazz, oh WOW! :) Thanks so much for playing my two rooms. And thanks for the very kind words. It makes all the many hours put into creating the room worth it. :) Thanks a million!

Amaziing room!!! Such a cool atmosphere. What a great work you have done with creating all the textures and objects. Loved the linnen puzzle, but happy there was a solution button as well ;-)
Great continuation of your "The lost Soul" room

New updated version:
- Front door is now open until you place the camera on the first "photo opportunity".
- "Auto-Solve Puzzles Button" added in the "emergency cabinet" in the dormitory to make it possible to skip the big logic puzzle (photo frames and bed linen puzzles).

@chickynuggies, thank you so, so much for your nice words. :) I'm super happy you liked this room (and also part 1). :) Thanks!

@Koueh, oh no. Hope you were able to do a speedrun after you found out about the missing camera and managed to exit the room. :) :)

Thanks for making part 2. My friends and I loved part 1 so much we were itching to play part 2. The rooms are so well done and very engaging, mad respect for the work put into this room!! Thanks for the fun!!

I didn't pick up the camera at the start and was running around forever trying to figure out what I was missing. Move it inside the house before locking yourself inside for idiots like me?

Hi @Halcyon, thanks for providing this feedback, it's much appreciated. I can see what you mean. I have provided a reworded explanation of the solution in the "Hints and Solutions" section in a comment. I will integrate this at the right place. :) Hope you enjoyed playing the room after all? :)

I read your solution over and over and did not understand the cauldron until I watched the video. Now that I understand it it's not a bad puzzle but I think the way you worded the answer was not clear.

@生, thanks for playing the room. :) You don't have to have played the previous room "The Trapped Soul" in order to play "The Orphanage". :) I take it, you have solved the puzlze with the rotating column in the mysterious room and have now entered the first "orphan hallway" (the Dark Green Hallway). Here, you have used the ghost camera and taken your first picture. You will have to save this photo for later and use the info you get from it (name, colour, orphans) later on. For now, you have to take the photo depicting the headmistress and her husband down from the wall and hang it on the placeholder in the mysterious room (that is no longer so mysterious). Having done that, the door to the headmistress' office opens. :) I hope this hint helps you so you can excerience the room to the end. :) Also, you can check the "Hint and Solutions" under the "Discussions" tab.

@Porco Rosso, thanks for your kind words (I understand it as positive feedback? :)) Thanks for playing. :)

Brilliant logic problem. We tried not use the ghost children as hints and it was a fun, fair challenge to do it that way.