The House of Tesla

The House of Tesla is a first-person escape room game about unraveling the secrets of Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. You must figure out how to operate various intricate machines and devices in order to escape from the lab. This game is a follow-up to the studio’s House of Da Vinci series, which it expands on with some new mechanics.

The story begins with you awakening in a partially destroyed lab. You are Nikola Tesla, but you’ve lost all your memories. You must search the lab and find a way out, piecing together what happened through cutscenes along the way.

Similar to The Room, the 3D environments feature detailed models, though there’s no free character movement and camera movement is limited. Instead, you double-click on objects to zoom in on them or to move to different fixed locations in the lab. The lab is full of electrical and mechanical devices which need to be unlocked, manipulated, or repaired. The mobile-friendly puzzles require sliding, turning, and rotating things, as well as observation skills and logical thinking. If you get stuck, a hint system is there to help you out.

One unique feature is a device that can be toggled on to show electrical hotspots. If you stand in the right place, you can drag electrical currents from one hotspot to another to provide power to elevators and conveyor belts. This element is sparsely used, however, and most of the game consists of traditional escape-room puzzles.

This description was written by Gwen C. Katz.