Rime Walkthrough

This is a full walkthrough to let you complete Rime - Room escape game. There are many steps to follow and two possible endings to reach to escape. Details and images will be shown to help you along but if you still have any questions afterwards please go to the Answers Page to ask there.

Guide

You open a book to see a picture of windows in a room and next you find yourself trapping in that room looking at the snow through the windows. Directional arrows are shown on the screen when you can move or look in that direction.

Look down and check around the room. In front of you is a large exit door width various boxes on the wall. To the right of the room is a table with a picture above. To the left side is a small desk and a stove and a ladder to the left. Opposite the main door is an elevator door with a picture on the wall to the left of it and an electrical box on the right. Looking up you can see a balcony.

Go to the small desk and open the top drawer to collect a key. Now go to the Use the key on the electric box on the back wall. Open it and take the batteries found inside the box.

Open the elevator door, move inside. Take the binoculars hanging on the right wall then tap the door to exit it again. Look up again at the windows above the main door and use the binoculars to read the signs above big left window.

Signs:

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Move to the table and tap the small draw to see a knob to turn using the Left or Right arrows. Use the symbols above to work out how to turn the knob to open the door.

Solution:

Take the remote control unit you find in the drawer. Tap the remote control unit in you inventory to view it and then tap the arrow to turn it over. Tap the back panel to open and use the batteries to place them inside. Close the panel.

Go to the box on the wall to the right of the main door. Tap to view the small sign plate in the lower left corner and note the pattern of shapes. View the remote control again and select the button on it that have the shapes that make up the one shown. Tap the rectangle button to activate it. You should now be able to go to the wall box and tap the button on the right. If you have the control settings correct the light will turn green and you can open the box and collect a fuse.

Next on the same main door wall tap the wooden crate on the floor on the left. tap to collect another fuse from the floor in the corner. You can now go back to the electric box on the back wall. open it and place in to the 2 fuses you have found. Pull the level to turn on the power.

Next go inside the elevator, pull the lever to the left of the door to go to the 2nd floor, exit the elevator. Look to the left side of the door (while facing the elevator) and tap to collect an empty can from the floor, then facing the far wall looking out from the balcony tap the metal box on the floor and then collect a hook from the top.

Open the door to the elevator again but before you go inside tap the hole seen on the back wall in the lower left corner. Tap again to collect a phillips head from inside the hole. Back up and then enter the elevator properly and go back down to the ground floor.

Go back to the table, tap the knife to view it and then select the binocular in your inventory and tap the knife again to cur the string from them. Take the String. View the string in your inventory and then add the hook to combine them.

On the floor to the left of the elevator is a small floor vent. Tap this to view it and then use the string / hook to collect a drawer knob. Go to the small desk and add the knob to the lower drawer, open it and take the Matches.

Back to the table, tap the bench vice. Use the Phillips head rod to loosen the vice jaws and take the Small metal fixture that falls from them, tap again to collect the phillips head back. While here also collect the news paper on the table.

Go to the ladder and climb it. You cannot open the trap door at the top but find and collect the sheet of paper hidden on the frame to the left of the door. View the paper for a clue.

Go back down to the main door view then tap on the box to the left of the door. Tap the lock and use the Small metal fixture on the lock then slide to the left. Open the box to see a set of 9 switches. Use the paper clue above to set the switches correctly.

Switches:

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Once the switches are set look around the room again. Notice that there are lights on each wall and some are on and some are off. There are 9 lights in total.

Go to the main door and tap to view the padlock that is on the bottom bolt of the door. This padlock has nine pins. Set them according to the lights by pressing in the ones to match the lights that are on.

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The tap the button at the bottom of the padlock to open it. Tap the bar to open and remove it, you can then tap and open the door a little.

Look outside and tap and collect the Square part in the snow outside. Notice also to the right a bucket with frozen water inside. Use your empty can in the snow to take snow.

Back inside go to the stove, open it and place the news paper inside. Then use the matches to light it. Place the can with snow in it onto the stove and then collect is again now with hot water. Return to the backdoor and poor hot water in the frozen bucket and take the screwdriver handle you find. Combine the handle with the phillips head rod to have a screwdriver.

Go back up tho e ladder to the hatch and use the screwdriver on the screw holding the metal catch on the right. Tap the catch to move it and open the door. Move to the other end of the balcony and find the small box on the wall. Use the screwdriver on the 4 screws then remove the front. Tap the piece of metal in the box to view another symbol diagram. Note the arrangement of shapes.

Symbol:

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Select the remote control unit and tap the rectangle to reset and tap the buttons according to the drawing on the piece of metal, then activate it again. You should now be able to open the metal box in the middle of the balcony. Open it and the Iron Box.

Make sure the elevator is on the second floor. If it isn't then use the ladder to go down and bring it back up. Go back down to the ground floor by the ladder. Open the elevator door, go in the shaft and collect the Round part on the top of the small plate on the right. Back up and tap the cracked hold in the wall by the floor. Use a match to light up the hole and move it around to find a key

Go to the wooden crate to the left of the main door and use the key on the lock and tap the right hand side to open and find a second lock. This has 3 dials that move left and right. Each dial has an X on it in one position. To unlock this you need clues from 3 places in the room with X on them.

Clues:

In each clue there is an X and a square with an arrow above. Match the position of the X to one of the rows in the lock and then move them dial to the square that has the arrow above it in the clue.

Solution:

Once you have them in position tap the Square button to open the wooden box. Collect a spanner.

Go to the main door and tap at the bottom to view the metal bar you removed, use the Spanner to remove the nut and the chain then collect the iron rod.

Next go to the back wall and view the picture frame to the left of the elevator door. Tap to the left of the frame and use the Spanner to remove nuts, Tap the frame to open and take the Crank handle.

Back up and enter the elevator shaft, the elevator should still be on the second floor. Use the Crank handle in the hole to the right tap to turn it to open the left hatch door. From inside collect the coin and the book.

Use the ladder to go to the 2nd floor and open the elevator door only. Tap the hole at the bottom left of the elevator to view and then use the Iron rod to place it in the hole. Next back up and enter the elevator fully and pull the handle to descend. The iron bar will cause the elevator to stop at half way down.

When the door opens tap the plate with the 2 screws and use the coin to remove screws then take the key. Pull the level to go back up to the second floor. Use the key to unlock the small locked box at the end of the balcony and take the Crumpled paper. Unfold the Crumple paper in your inventory and take the Triangular part and the paper with a clue.

Go to the ground floor and check the table to see the 2 further paper clues under the knife. Each paper shows the position of a square, a triangle and circle. Select the Iron box in your inventory. Use the paper clues to place the 3 parts that you also have in the inventory into the correct holes on the Iron box.

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The round part goes in the lower left hole.

The triangle part goes in the middle.

The square part goes in the top right hole.

When you have placed them, tap the lever on the right and take the Wire brush.

Return to the picture on the back wall and view the metal box behind it. Tap the plate that is in the bottom left corner and notice it is dirty. Use the brush on the plate to clean it to reveal another diagram. Copy this on the remote control as before and activate it to allow you to open this box. Collect from inside the parchment.

View the unrolled parchment in the inventory to see a clue.

Clue:

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Go back to the wooden crate by the main door and view the 3 dial lock again. Use the wire brush on the dials to reveal a letter now in each of the spaces on the 3 dials. Move them back and forward to check the letters and use the clue above to discover a 4 letter word.

Word:

Open the book in your inventory and use the code word from above in the lock to unlock it. Tap the book on the right to turn pages until you find and take the key. You can now use the key to unlock the door and escape the house.

NORMAL Ending - You have now escaped, but is that all. You are free of the house but still in the mysterious book world. If you want to finish the game completely then return and continue the hunt for clues and the True Ending