Toward the back quarter of the game, The White Door starts throwing puzzles at you that aren’t quite as straightforward as the ones before, and they can be frustratingly obtuse. Whenever I got hung up on a puzzle though, all those great feelings would come to a screeching halt.
Seeing more of that world and its unique style was what I found most satisfying and propulsive as I made my way through it. Multiple times when playing The White Door, I stopped everything I was doing just to listen to the music in the game.Īs long as I kept moving forward in The White Door, I was having a great time. Special mention here should go to Victor Butzelaar, who composed an incredible soundtrack. Fortunately though, this game establishes such a surreal vibe that you just want to see where you’ll end up next. I’d go as far to say that if the White Door didn’t look and sound the way it does, it wouldn’t be a particularly remarkable game. There are times where you have to move objects in a particular sequence, arrange symbols according to a pattern, or scrounge through objects to find passwords and answers to questions posed by your doctors. The puzzles in The White Door aren’t particularly unique if you’ve played adventure games before. The entirety of The White Door takes place over seven days, and through each one you have to solve different kinds of puzzles in his routine or his dreams to keep pressing the narrative forward. With this odd routine, it’s not hard to start piecing together Robert’s life situation, and The White Door starts fills in some backstory as to how he got where he was during dream sequences. Once asleep, you also get a glimpse into Robert’s life via his dreams. He wakes up, eats breakfast, brushes his teeth, goes through a check up, plays a memory game, eats dinner, performs a recreational activity, and goes back to sleep.
It’s never entirely clear what exactly is going on in The White Door, but you start the game playing out Robert Hill’s daily routine. What I found was a beautiful and haunting game, though not one that I found particularly intelligible or clever. The White Door is their latest, and my first venture into this developer’s work. Rusty Lake has established quite a reputation for making odd and surreal adventure games.
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