Room 1057
Charles is a very normal man who enjoys the simplicity of life and every little thing it has to offer. During his summer vacation, he decides to leave for a few days and stay in a small motel near the sea. There, he gets the key to room 1057. After getting ready to go to the beach to spend a whole afternoon under the warmth of the sun, his room door doesn’t seem to open anymore.
And as he tries to find a way out, everything swiftly goes wrong...
WARNING: the game you're about to play is an horrific experience that uses strong language and explores mature themes that might be hurtful for some players. Trigerring subjects such as death, emotional abuse, monsters and insects are to be found. Proceed carefully!
Game made in a month for the 4th Spooktober Jam.
Project lead and narrative design:
- Elisa Corbeau: https://elisacorbeau.com/
Programming:
- Zera: https://zeradev.com/
Game art:
- Lox.exe: https://twitter.com/Lox_exe
Music:
- Fedra: https://fedra1.itch.io/
Sound design:
Voice acting:
- Mike Roberts: https://cstng.cc/MikeRobertsVO
Proofreading:
- Oli
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Stanley Parable looking ahh/pos
No really, aside from the very positive similarites to the stanley parable in quality, humour,writing, etc, I found myself really enjoying this and the little tweaks that made it more horror than existential/liminal. Person voicing narrator had a fantastic performance. There is definitely subtext and metaphors here though I can't quite figure them out
Goddamn, I did not expect to see how tense and terrifying everything is. Like Charles was just trying to swim in the ocean but then the weird host thing decided he wanted Charles as soon as possible. Not gonna lie, the ghosts themselves terrified me but I was more terrified about the Narrator. To Mike who voiced the Narrator, absolutely amazing job because of how deranged yet controlled you sounded. I just gotta say, I wanted to comment about how odd the Narrator was to how he was instantly enamored and obsessed with Charles. But I suppose in a weird way... Charles did look cute being all distressed and crying but that's just a weird observation!
And the multiple references with the Narrator being so attached to Charles all while demeaning and breaking him, that was just a horrific touch with the psychological aspect, and the door opening for the Narrator to finally get to Charles, I'm curious to know what he did to Charles... Poor Charles really had no escape from it....
Amazing horror VN, completely terrified me as I tried to interact with the environment. But my favorite ghost is the cat ghost, no questions asked.
Thank you so much for your comment! We're so happy the game had such a strong emotional impact on you. Comments like yours always make us want to make new games, thanks a lot 🥳
Very excited to see more games with any style like Room 1057! It was a really trip fast one pulled on me where the pacing felt just right and added with the psychological horror and horror trope style!
when i played the game i didnt know it would be this terrifying,i thought it was calm game but it hit me like a truck when poor charly lost his mouth,i really enjoyed the game,great job friends!
Thanks a lot, we're glad you enjoyed the game 🥰
Insane voice acting, art and music !
Charles's experience really looks like schizophrenia
If it's on purpose, i would've loved to see props hinting about that in the game
Thank you for your review 🥰
It is not, but we did use anxiety as a main inspiration 👌
Intriguing concept. Just to let you know: the browser version isn't working right. It only shows the left-upper corner of the screen. I'm downloading the exe version now, to see if I can play it over there.
My Windows won't let me execute it X'D It thinks it's a virus...
When you launch the game, there is a full screen button on the bottom right of the game window
I did click the full screen button, in fact. That's how I realized it wasn't my browser's zoom being weird, but the game zooming in on the left-upper corner. At least, that's how it looks to me from over here. I have windows, btw. Could it be a compatibility issue?
Which browser do you use? I'm going to report that issue to my team 😎
Ohhh, I didn't think about switching browsers. I'm gonna try that next. I was using Mozilla Firefox.
As for the devise, if that was a question directed at me, I was using a windows 64 laptop. Does that help?
Alright! I switched to Chrome, and then put the full screen, and I was finally able to play it! I don't know why it's giving me such a hard time, though. In Mozilla it just won't stop showing the left-upper corner zoom-in view.
But back to the game itself. So. This has been a very tortuous experience, lol XD The poor guy, he has such a happy-go-luck attitude. I kind of love his design, but at the same time I can't help think it kind of clashes with the ambience you are trying to set.
And I kinda feel the same about the scenario - if you ever decide to touch it up, my suggestion is to make is a bit more sombre. I remember there was a movie with a premise not very different to this one. The switch between how the room looked originally and how it switched to something grey-er, more older-looking, did wonders.
I really liked the narrator voice, no doubt it's the biggest sell of the whole experience. The fact that it literally has a "narrator" voice is nicely unsettling. Btw, we kind of had a similar idea using a literal narrator, lol. (Shout-out to Rachel if she winds up reading this heh)
Anyway. Nice work. Interesting premise. And I liked the switch in the title. I hope you manage to figure out the bugs and kinks! 'Gluck
Hi! I wanted to know which resolution your device has :)
This was a really cool experience! the creepy monsters were really unnerving... the narration was good as well.
Poor Charles though ;;
Thank you so much for the kind words!^^
(I have been notified to let you know that no Charles were hurt in the making of this game(hopefully))
Checked into Room 1057 and it was an awesome little experience! The artwork was great (especially how expressive Charles was), the voice acting was the perfect mix of charming and unnerving, and horror imagery was used really effectively.
We thank you for your great review of our lovely motel!
Please return at any time for another stay in room 1057 :)
Thanks once again from the entire 1057 team! ^^