Rooms: The Main Building is a puzzle game initially released in 2008 for PC. The game was released for the Nintendo DS

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 and Wii

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 by Hudson Entertainment

Hudson Soft

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 on March 23, 2010.

Gameplay

The player moves rooms of a building around to help the game's protagonist reach the exit.

Development

The game was initially developed by independent game studio HandMade Game before being released by Big Fish Games

Big Fish Games

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 in 2008 and again in 2010 by Hudson Entertainment

Hudson Soft

, formally known as , is a majority-owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation is a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May 18, 1973...

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Reception

The game has received generally mixed reviews from critics. For instance, Wiiloveit.com gave the game a 25/30, describing it as "truly innovative" for the way it "takes a familiar concept and develops it into a full-fledged game". Other critics were much harsher, criticizing the premise entirely. Overall, it received an aggregated score of 60% from eight reviews at Metacritic

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