Niko Door Escape (Mini Escape Game)

Categories: Flash, Free, Games, Online, Room Escape, Walkthrough

Niko Door Escape aka Mini Escape Game is a new little Room Escape game from Neutral, the author of Vision, RGBÂ and Sphere. Don’t expect a lot of depth as this game was obviously designed to be easy for anyone to play it. That being said, it really deserves a try! Have fun!

Note: this mini-game appears randomly in a banner at the top of Neutral’s site (refresh if needed).
Update: Niko Door Escape walkthrough in comment #38 (thanks J!)

By Eric

current rating 4.00

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42 Comments to Niko Door Escape (Mini Escape Game)

Ekoms says:

October 15, 2008 at 9:33 am

first and already finished really easy game
TG says:

October 15, 2008 at 9:37 am

1st
Jess says:

October 15, 2008 at 9:42 am

OK that was easy :)
Reka says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:31 am

Whee! I love Neutral’s games! Even when they’re simple. :)
Schubi says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:32 am

Looks like there may be 2 endings, but I don’t read Japanese.
Smurfette says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:37 am

I feel like a total tard but I am stuck with the shapes. Where do you enter them?
Smurfette says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:38 am

Nevermind. I just figured it out.
Schubi says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:39 am

Aha! You have to Show

pick up the sleeping bird once you’ve opened the door, and then pile them all up once you’ve opened the trapdoor.

Still, I can’t read it :)
Reka says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:41 am

Heh. Even though this game is quite simple by Neutral’s standards, it still comes with two endings. And all without an ounce of pixel-hunting. Have I mentioned that I love Neutral’s games?

This game would be a just-about-perfect introduction to the room escape genre, except that it’d give people expectations that very few other designers manage to meet.
Notthatclever says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:42 am

Anyway…IÂ´m stuck. At the clock. it shows 12:34. What now?
miacat says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:45 am

@ Reka: most of those other game designers should have a closer look at Neutral!
Notthatclever says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:52 am

Nevermind…got it. Magic of posting. Hopefully I will be out soon.
Notthatclever says:

October 15, 2008 at 10:52 am

Cute :)
chas says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:02 am

Exactly what everyone else is saying. I got giddy when I realized it was a Neutral game
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:03 am

The only part that gave me any trouble was Show

at the very end — when the trapdoor didn’t open first try, I went back to the room to see what I’d missed. Turns out I didn’t miss anything — you just have to keep trying the trapdoor until you force it open.

Excellent game — shorter than other Neutral offerings, but otherwise quite up to their usual standard.
Whazzup says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:11 am

What’s the trick w/ the shapes? Tried inputting w/ correct colors as seen Show

with lights off

but no luck.
Em says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:12 am

Hey! Need some help. I have got insert the desk to the computor. Now stuck..
Em says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:15 am

Ok. Now I have seen all the shapes in the dark… But have no items left..
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:16 am

@Whazzup: you have the right thought; perhaps you got the details wrong? Check around again Show

with the lights off.

You should get: Show

white circle, green diamond, black heart, red star, blue triangle.
Fanny says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:18 am

@Em, I’m stuck there too, with no items left. How did you all get the lights off??
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:54 am

Yes new game. Let’s see….
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 11:56 am

I’ll attempt a hint-through (it’s much too nice and simple to ruin it with an actual walkthrough).
First, go all around the room and see what you can see.
Sofa view:Show

did you find a locked drawer, and some dirt?

Cabinet view: Show

did you find a slot machine, a sleeping birdie, a locked cabinet, and a spot for a battery? How about a hand shovel?

Desk view: Show

did you find the computer’s power switch, and have you looked inside the wastebasket? Did you find a coin? Also check out the computer keyboard — it’s probably a bit different from yours.

Door view: Show

Did you find a coin and a key? Did you notice that you may be needing a screwdriver?

You should now have some things in your inventory which obviously go with other things you’ve seen around the room.
Hint: Show

shovels are good for digging in dirt. Yay, another coin!

Hint: Show

coins… slot machine… Wow! Battery!

Hint: Show

keys open locked things. Like cabinets. Hmm, an old-fashioned 3.5 inch diskette?

So now you have yet more objects and places to use them. Show

The diskette gives a hint which you need to combine with the hint from the wastebasket and the info from the keyboard. Once you have the code “translated”, it should be obvious where to apply it.

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Oh, dear, did we wake the sleeping birdie?

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I’ll skip some steps here to comment: who the heck hid the light switch behind the mirror? And then screwed the mirror in place?

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Look around the room in the dark, and note the shapes and their locations. (This is the one part of this game that could’ve used tweaking, to make it easier on color-blind people.) It also doesn’t hurt to try clicking the bright spots, especially if they’re different from the others.

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Yet another coin… You know what to try with coins.

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A USB thumbdrive? Check what’s on it.

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If you were observant (and you’re not color-blind), the next step should be easy.

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Hint for the trapdoor: if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

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If you brought something with you from the room, then there’s one more thing you can do. Hint: it’s the sort of thing that appeals to …orderly types, like me. Nice, neat stacks are a Good Thing.
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:04 pm

@Em: did you try clicking Show

the bright spots, when the lights are off?

@Fanny: have you done anything with the Show

alarm clock? It’s the key to getting further.
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:07 pm

And out. Nice little game. :)
Mel says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:11 pm

feeling very silly but can not figure out the clock. Pretty please will somebody help me with that?
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:17 pm

From the first pc item you get some signs Show

that will match with the keyboard. Then you willl have the time you have to set and then push the blue-ish button on the clock.
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Sorry about the spoiler tags.
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:18 pm

you should get Show

16:54
Mel says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:25 pm

thanks Mila!
Kasana says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:26 pm

I’m stuck, what about the bright spots
Mila says:

October 15, 2008 at 12:29 pm

You can only see the spots when it is Show

dark and you can only see the right colors with the lights on. Only they are not in the same position on the pc
BoomBoxer says:

October 15, 2008 at 1:56 pm

i clicked on the spots wit light off but its of no use >
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm

@BoomBoxer: only one of the Show

bright spots yields anything. It’s the one that’s much smaller than the rest.
Whazzup says:

October 15, 2008 at 3:19 pm

OMG, what an idiot, when I was trying, I reversed the colors of the diamond and triangle. DUH! Thx… :)
Echo says:

October 15, 2008 at 3:45 pm

The Shapes Show

on the PC click the shapes to turn to the colors
laughingpoodle says:

October 15, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Love the ending! Cute.
daisy says:

October 15, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Thanks echo Show

who would have guessed that an old looking laptop like that would have a touch screen! lol
J says:

October 15, 2008 at 9:13 pm

OK, I couldn’t resist. Here’s a full walkthrough, just for completeness’ sake.
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Turn right. Move the two shirts aside to get the shovel. Turn left and zoom in on the plant. Use the shovel to get the coin from the dirt.

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Turn left. Get the coin from the lampshade and the key from under the mat. Notice that the mirror is held in place with a screw.

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Turn left. Get the coin from under the cushion on the stool. Notice the clue in the wastebasket: the pound sign goes with 3. Explore the laptop: you can turn it on, there’s a USB port and a slot up front for some type of disk or card, and the keyboard is kinda funky — the pound sign above the 3 is one of the few punctuation marks that’s in the same place as on a standard US keyboard.

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Turn left. Use the key on the blue cubby to get the floppy. Open the left-hand side of the cabinet to see the slot machine. Insert the three coins and pull the lever to get the battery.

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Turn right. Insert the floppy in the slot on the front of the laptop. Zoom out once, then zoom in on the screen and view the file. It looks kinda like cartoon swearing: !&*%$. Combine this with the clue from the wastebasket to convert this into (mostly) numbers, using the laptop’s keyboard layout. You should get 16:54.

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Turn left and click the alarm clock. Click the left edge to turn it around, open the compartment, and insert the battery. Turn back to the front and enter the time code: the middle button changes the hour, the right-hand button changes the minute (in two-minute increments). When it says 16:54, push the left-hand button. The alarm rings, then the left side opens and reveals a key. Get the key.

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Turn left and use the key to open the drawer. Get the screwdriver.
Turn left and use the screwdriver on the mirror to access the lightswitch.

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Look all around the room with the lights off and note the shape and location of each bright spot. In the sofa view, click the small bright spot by the plant to get another coin. Turn the lights back on.

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Turn twice from the lightswitch and use the coin in the slot machine to get the USB drive.

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Turn right and insert the USB drive in the laptop. View the new file. Notice that you can change the colors of the shapes by clicking them.

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When the lights are off, the bright shapes are each on a particular color: the circle is on the white couch, the diamond is on the green part of the painting, the heart is on the black T-shirt, the star is on the red cubby door, and the triangle is on the blue painting. Change each shape to match its location, then click the OK button to open the door.

Ending 1: Show

go out the door and up the ladder, click the trapdoor several times to open it, and you’re out.

Ending 2: Show

before you go out, get the wakened birdie from the red cubby. Then go out the door and up the ladder, and click the trapdoor several times to open it. When you’re out, close the trapdoor, and pile the birdies back in their nest: click the biggest bird, then the nest, then the next-biggest bird, and the nest, and so on, finishing with the bird from your inventory.
BoomBoxer says:

October 15, 2008 at 9:14 pm

yea! i din noe i must click the screen, i thought im spose to clik the shapes that appeared in the same order on the screen.
d’oh!
shubbing says:

October 16, 2008 at 12:28 am

I GOT OUT! This is the first time I actually got out without any help! (Yea, I really suck at room escape games…) This game is really nicely-made. =)
luna says:

October 16, 2008 at 8:35 am

awww Show

i dumped out the poor birdies…
Linda says:

October 18, 2008 at 7:22 am

omg… I can’t believe how stupid I was. I thought the 2nd passw on the computer was just to show the order… for the life of me I couldn’t find anywhere to enter it tho…. lol… yay – out without any clues (the only one I needed I didn’t find… where to enter the code – lol)
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enter the code on the computer! doh

It also took me a while to find it.. when I followed the link I just got a white screen with a link to the homepage where I was looking around for the escape game… They could setup their site a bit better I guess, but the game was wonderfull.