The Room Three Review (iongantas)
I believe I started with the first game in this series. Liked it, and just bought all the rest.
The puzzles on this one are all fine, maybe even a little more intuitive than previously, and the hints were even occasionally helpful. Previous installments spent most of the time in a single room at a time, this one has a branching structure where there are multiple rooms in the same building, which mostly have at least one attached room, and in all those cases, you are also magically transported to a distant structure with multiple rooms that you solve before being returned. I mention this to bring up the issue that is going to make me NOT recommend this game.
There is a lot of automatic panning and spinning about, and zooming in an out in this game, that I don't recall in the previous games, or at the very least, the first game (I'll have to go check and see if I left reviews on those and what I said). At first I didn't notice, but about halfway through the game I started getting motion sickness, and I had to start closing my eyes every time it went through a transition sequence to get through the game without vomiting. I guess that squares with the vaguely Lovecraftian theme of the game. The only other thing that gives me motion sickness like this is shaky-cam "found footage" movies, and those only on the big screen.
I already bought the fourth one, so I'll eventually have to try that, and hope it is not as bad on that count. I'm not sure how they could solve it, other than to either have more static transitions (or the option for that), or better would be player controlled motion through the environment, rather than automatic move-to-point motion.
If you aren't affected by this (which I had no way of knowing before playing the game), and you like puzzle games, this will be fine for you.