The Room

Story

The game largely follows the plot of the movie: likeable banker Johnny helps his friends with their everyday problems as he prepares for his wedding to his future wife Lisa. When he finds out that Lisa is cheating on him with his best friend Mark, Johnny is outraged and ends up killing himself. The game differs from the movie in that it only shows the events from Johnny's point of view. The player controls Johnny in his activities that are only hinted at in the movie, such as when he hires a mysterious customer at his bank and turns the drug dealer Chris-R over to the police. The game also contains some jokes that attempt to explain the background and peculiarities of the movie and its story. For example, a scene in the final level of the game attempts to explain the unexplained disappearance of the supporting character Peter from the final act by revealing that an escaped Chris-R stole Johnny's car during the party in revenge for his arrest and killed Peter in a hit-and-run. The game begins with a prologue that shows Lisa and Denny at Johnny's grave (a statue of Tommy Wiseau) and then transitions into a level that takes place a day before the main action of the movie. There, Johnny learns that San Francisco has been cut off from the rest of the state by an earthquake. In the final level of the game, players can tie up the loose plot threads left open at the end of the movie, such as the fate of Chris-R and Johnny's contentious relationship with his superiors at the bank. After Johnny's "suicide", he returns to his mothership, a giant mechanical spoon orbiting the Earth, and laments that he and his alien colleagues will never understand human life. Johnny and two of his fellow aliens then assume forms resembling a naked Tommy Wiseau and begin to dance. At the climax of the game, when the player collects all the hidden spoons in the game, the aliens fire a ray gun at the Earth, turning the planet into a giant spoon.