Locked Room

Locked Room is a classic point-and-click escape game set in twelve cosy, hand-drawn rooms: a study, a kitchen, an attic, a garage, a hotel room, a lab, a library, a log cabin, a train compartment, a lighthouse, a toy shop and an observatory. Each room is one screen with four walls. Turn with the arrows or a swipe and tap anything that looks interesting: drawers slide open, pictures swing aside, and whatever you find drops into the inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.

Every room is a short chain of puzzles. Oil a rusty key before it will turn, put a battery in a torch to see what is hiding under the sink, read a code off a painting, a clock, a calendar or a misted mirror, set a colour lock to match a row of jars, fit a fuse, find the lever behind a picture and slide the panels of a picture back into place. The clues are pictures rather than words, so a room reads the same in any language, and every lock and drawer opens in a big close-up that is easy to handle on a phone.

It is a gentle brain workout rather than a race. No clock ever ends your game: each room has a par time and three stars to collect, one for finishing under par, one for using no hints and one for never guessing a lock wrong. If you get stuck, the Hint button points at the next useful spot with a pulse, three times per room. Rooms unlock in order and your stars and best times are saved in your browser, so a quick room on a break is a nice way to relax, and the rest will be waiting when you come back.