The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio based in Brighton, best known for creating experimental first-person games such as Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and, most recently, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

We are currently working on our next game, So Let Us Melt and Total Dark (working title).

 

  

  

We proudly support SpecialEffect, a charity for gamers with physical disabilities. By using technology ranging from modified joypads to eye-control, they find ways for people to play to the very best of their abilities. By levelling the playing field, they bring families and friends together and have a profoundly positive impact on therapy, confidence and rehabilitation.

Meanwhile, on our blog...

Latest blog posts
Exciting times - it's a new chapter in TCR's life as we join the Sumo family!
Exciting times - it's a new chapter in TCR's life as we join the Sumo family!

We’re absolutely delighted to announce that The Chinese Room has joined the Sumo family and are already working on new projects!

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Changes at the studio: we're going dark for the next few months.
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So Let Us Melt - a new soundtrack by Jessica Curry
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Introducing our amazing narrator for So Let Us Melt
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Never played a Chinese Room game before? Here's what to expect with So Let Us Melt
Never played a Chinese Room game before? Here's what to expect with So Let Us Melt

We've never made a game for mobile VR before. So it makes sense that some of you won't have ever played one of our games. Here's a primer for what to expect...

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So Let Us Melt - coming to Daydream VR on Thursday 21st September
So Let Us Melt - coming to Daydream VR on Thursday 21st September

So Let Us Melt is the story of 98. He was a living machine called a Custodian and his job, along with his sisters and brothers, all one thousand five hundred and two of them, was to make a world. It would take over ten million years.

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