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greatlivingroomescape.gifJohnBWhat do a hamster, an umbrella, and half a pair of glasses have in common? I'm not telling, but The Great Living Room Escape just might. The just-released follow up to The Great Kitchen Escape from Pastelgames.com (yes, the site Submachine creator Mateusz Skutnik calls home) is filled with brightly-colored art, zany items, and excellent point and click room escape gameplay.

Wielding the mouse as your do-all, find-all, examine-all tool, simply slide the cursor around and look for hotspots where you can zoom in or items you can pick up. The arrows at the bottom of the screen let you navigate the livingroom. Objects you grab are stored in your inventory as bubbles at the top of the screen. To use them together, just click one, move it to the other object, and click again.

A great visual style is the perfect hook for The Great Living Room Escape, and the animations are fluid and packed with charm. The only real drawback is its length: five to ten minutes, tops. There are only a few screens to explore and half a dozen items to collect. Escaping the room is a simple matter of gathering everything and using it in the right combination (accomplished by a quick bout with Mr. Trial-and-Error).

It may be fleeting, but The Great Living Room Escape is a great casual gaming diversion. Play The Great Living Room Escape.

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The Great Living Room Escape walkthrough now available!

Walkthrough Guide

Walkthrough

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    Open bottom drawer, take rubberband from underwear.
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    One screen right, zoom in on the glasses, click on the right half to take it.
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    Same screen, zoom in on the glass, click on the end of the straw to take it.
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    Click on the straw in your inventory and combine it with the glasses to make a diving mask.
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    One screen right click on the globe and take the steroids out of it.
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    Screen with the globe, click the curtain rope to take it.
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    One screen right, click on the umbrella to take it.
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    Click on the hamster to take him.
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    Use steroids on the Hamster.
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    Use diving mask on Hamster to make a diver.
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    Use rope on umbrella to make a fishing rod rod.
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    Use fishing rod on Hamster.
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    On the screen with fishbowl, zoom in on the fishbowl and use your diver on the bowl.
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    Don't be scared, the piranha won't eat your diver because it's on steroids.
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    Click on the key to make the hamster grab it.
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    Click on the key again to take it.
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    Zoom out, go to the scene with the door, and use the key on the door. Voila!

Comments (may contain spoilers)

ok what do i do after i

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have the hamster on steriods with scuba gear made from straw rubber and half of glasses?

This was very simple and enjoyable.....well maybe too simple for most, but sometimes you just want to finish something without thinking too much.

Walkthrough:

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Just PLAY the game, its easy

never mind im out

Great but way too easy. I'll try to write a simple walkthrough.

A very cute game! I'm surprised at the nasty comment on the linked page - hopefully it was a joke. Pretty easy, but worth it for the funny solution.

Walkthrough

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    Open bottom drawer, take rubberband from underwear.
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    One screen right, zoom in on the glasses, click on the right half to take it.
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    Same screen, zoom in on the glass, click on the end of the straw to take it.
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    Click on the straw in your inventory and combine it with the glasses to make a diving mask.
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    One screen right click on the globe and take the steroids out of it.
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    Screen with the globe, click the curtain rope to take it.
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    One screen right, click on the umbrella to take it.
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    Click on the hamster to take him.
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    Use steroids on the Hamster.
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    Use diving mask on Hamster to make a diver.
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    Use rope on umbrella to make a fishing rod rod.
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    Use fishing rod on Hamster.
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    On the screen with fishbowl, zoom in on the fishbowl and use your diver on the bowl.
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    Don't be scared, the piranha won't eat your diver because it's on steroids.
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    Click on the key to make the hamster grab it.
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    Click on the key again to take it.
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    Zoom out, go to the scene with the door, and use the key on the door. Voila!

heaven forbid you could reach in the fishbowl

WOW! That was the shortest time EVER before a walkthrough was put up!

Maqrkk - send me an email using my address at the bottom of the left sidebar and I'll send you a coupon for a free game from Big Fish! :)

Love these games! But waaaaayyyyyy to short! Only took me 3 minutes! (and Crab: I think they were trying to insinuate that the fish would eat your hand)

Short, but entertaining. My favorite thing about this game was the animation whenever you would combine items.

Agreed, the animations were awesome!

Painorama's walkthough was great... ;o) easy and fun game with great animation cut sceens ..

"heaven forbid you could reach in the fishbowl"

Crab: Didn't you see the animation? That's a piranha in there. :D

Now the real question is:

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what happened to the hamster after he gave you the key?

Sometimes it's so nice to have a five minute distraction.

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That hampster was so cute with his super smacking powers. It was such a satisfying smack, too. SMACK. So adorable.

A cute little game. It wasn't that hard to figure out. There's just one thing that is bothering me...

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What happens to the hamster after the game is done? He wasn't back in his cage when I looked. Does he go on to live a life dependent on steroids or does he gain a new love for scuba diving?

I think the developers deliberately left it open-ended so you could draw your own conclusions. For example, I believe that the hamster transcended a physical state and became a being of pure energy, all thanks to steroids. The lesson being steroids are awesome!

Couldn't the person have just used the straw to drain the bowl? Or better yet, just dumped the damn thing down the drain, and take the key..... Heaven knows that poor cactus in the window could use some water......

"Couldn't the person have just used the straw to drain the bowl? Or better yet, just dumped the damn thing down the drain, and take the key..... Heaven knows that poor cactus in the window could use some water......"

Ummm...that's a piranha. And piranhas have a knack for jumping.

So funny! I thought this one was even more fun than the first--but having played through the first one I was ready for the silliness. I wondered about

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the fate of the hamster myself--maybe his superpowers only lasted for a few minutes, or perhaps when he turned his back on the piranha it snuck up on him!

Any way, this was extremely fun--and so nice to have one I can play in a few minutes with no frustration or help. YAY!

There should have been an alternate ending if you fed the steroids to the piranha. Or the cactus, for that matter...

I had to get a hint just to find out what I was trying should be working...

All in all very fun, like the music and graphics, like the ingenuity. WAY too short and easy though. At that length you should be able to put out a couple of these a week... please?

That was amazingly . . . cute.

The key still appears in the little castle after you get it and zoom out. No biggie. It's a cute game. I agree that funky things should happen when you feed the steroids to anything other than the hamster, etc.

Great,

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Combining RUBBER with STRAW doesn't work, but combining STRAW with RUBBER works.

A smallish issue in an otherwise pretty fun'n'wacky game. Love the cutscenes!

Nice one, a good sequel to the kitchen. Same fun, same humor, same difficulty level. I liked it.

(Just a small observation: at the end when you see the door being opened, the key is rotated in the keyhole counter-clockwise, so the door is actually shot, not opened :)

This game made me happy :) fantastic graphics, but I agree, it was too short

Cute but not long enough... took all of 2 minutes

my guess is that the hamster gained super powers and went to beat up pikachu.

Oh, it was so cute!

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As for the hamster, I suspect that it took off. Too bad they don't show afterwards a hamster-sized hole with bits of drywall falling off. Super-Hamster is off to save someone's day!

hmm, all of the comments on what happens to the hamster are negative. one has the hamster beating up someone, one says steroids are good I AM TALKING TO YOU NEDDO, I HAVE MY EYE ON YOU! DO NOT CROSS A NINJA!!!!!!!!!!!!, and one had the hamster die. i shall bring it upon myself to add some positive comments........ after dinner. seeya!

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YES I DO HAVE AN OFFICIAL NINJA LICENCE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH >:0

Open bottom drawer, take rubberband from underwear.
One screen right, zoom in on the glasses, click on the right half to take it.
Same screen, zoom in on the glass, click on the end of the straw to take it.
Click on the straw in your inventory and combine it with the glasses to make a diving mask.
One screen right click on the globe and take the steroids out of it.
Screen with the globe, click the curtain rope to take it.
One screen right, click on the umbrella to take it.
Click on the hamster to take him.
Use steroids on the Hamster.
Use diving mask on Hamster to make a diver.
Use rope on umbrella to make a fishing rod rod.
Use fishing rod on Hamster.
On the screen with fishbowl, zoom in on the fishbowl and use your diver on the bowl.
Don't be scared, the piranha won't eat your diver because it's on steroids.
Click on the key to make the hamster grab it.
Click on the key again to take it.
Zoom out, go to the scene with the door, and use the key on the door.TADA!!!!

Heh, I really liked this game. Nice goofy style - I loved the 3D turnaround animations when combining objects. The bizarre logic reminds me of that old OldManMurray article on "Who Killed Adventure Games?", except it was fully tongue-in-cheek here :D

i say the hamster went on to discover a cure for cancer, HAPPY NOW, NINJI?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?1/

yes

Oh god. That was so adorable. Oh, man.

WOW that's the first time I've finished a escape game with out a walk through O.O and in under 5 min XD

that was a perfect sequel to "the great kitchen escape". i loved its naif style.

THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOO

cruel i mean first you put the hmamster on steroids

second you put it in with a piranha

third it could drown in thAt bowl

worst of all..........

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he could of tipped the bowl over and killed the fish, but then i wudnt want to upset any piranha lovers would i ..but o well
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HAMSTER FOR LYFE

Love the music.

not quite as...realistic...as the first one. but absolutely adorable! <3

For everyone who's asking about the hamster, he OBVIOUSLY went off to pursue a career in major league baseball.

hmm. seems I can't combine items to make the scuba mask. I have clicked and tried to combine the items in all different ways. everything else seems to work fine.

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