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Disposition is an escape room game that tests whether you’ve got the memory recall of a goldfishI do
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Image credit:Astro Hound
I reckon I’ve got quite a strong long term memory. For instance, I can recall that time I read Stoner on a backpacking trip through Italy and realising that I particularly like sad books. I can also recall the delicious taste of a Mars Delight chocolate bar. But my short term memory, whew. Yeah it’s not so good. And the demo forDisposition, a liminal escape room game where you’ve got to remember how things are arranged in rooms, has hammered this point home.
In Disposition you play as a test subject of a mysterious, dystopian research facility. The kind where corridors are shiny and white, and the office equipment is from the 90s: often chunky, often grey. You are to ascend the floors of this facility, but to do so, you must pass a series of tests between each elevator ride upwards. And those tests involve walking into rooms and observing how objects are placed within them. Once you’ve left these rooms, the doors lock behind you, and you’re dropped an object from within them: a projector, a red lamp, a screen. It’s then up to you to enter an identically laid out room, only with some or all objects missing, and place that object where you believe it was previously (you do this with a physics-based hold-and-release throw).
Get it right and you’re clear to ascend. A new room! More objects, even tougher memory recall and the ever growing paranoia of mind blanks. Get it wrong, though, and… you start from floor zero.
Disposition Developer CommentaryWatch on YouTube
Disposition Developer Commentary
There’s absolutely a story here, too, as failure led me to a corridor where I saw a man with a video tape for a head. The narrator over the tannoy said that they’re a longtime employee. Yeaaaah, it’s creepy.
Oh, and there’s a timer ticking away if you want to race against others on a leaderboard or challenge yourself. Perhaps there are more timed elements on higher floors, but this is pure speculation and I doubt I’ll ever get to that point.
There’s no release date on this one just yet, but it should be due out sometime soon. If you want to give the demo a go yourself, you can find it here onSteam.
