The Chinese Room

United Kingdom Founded 2012 Website

The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio based in Brighton. Since 2012 we’ve built a reputation for innovative first-person gaming. Our titles include the ground-breaking Dear Esther; the cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs; the internationally acclaimed Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture; the VR fairy tale So Let Us Melt and, most recently, the technicolour comedy-adventure Little Orpheus for Apple Arcade. Since joining the Sumo Digital family in 2018, we’ve been hard at work building on our reputation for creative excellence in game development. We’ve got a brand new studio home, a growing team and are busy with projects that merge TCR storytelling with new directions, new genres and new ambitions.

The Chinese Room at a Glance

The Chinese Room has been active in the gaming industry from 2012 to 2025, with 9 titles tracked on PlayPile. Their catalog primarily spans Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), with additional titles in Puzzle and Platform. The studio carries a solid 72.2/100 average rating across their catalog, with 6 titles rated favorably by the community. Their highest-rated title on PlayPile is Still Wakes the Deep (77.0/100). Games from The Chinese Room are available across 10 platforms, most notably PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5.

Total Games

72.2

Avg Rating

2012

First Release

2025

Latest Release