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  • Pay Attention To The Numbers And Colors
  • Immediately Remove All Items
  • Start With Large And Awkward Items
  • Examine And Combine Items
  • Don't Be Efficient With Healing
  • Count The Squares

Survival horror games remain a great genre where people must maintain their supplies and use inventory management to maximize the space. Usually, they'll go through these supplies in a safe space where they can't be attacked. Save Room took the concept and turned it into a puzzle game where you must organize your space and make room for every item.

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While puzzle games get you to think, they can become frustrating if you find yourself stuck on a puzzle. If you want to complete all 40 puzzles in Save Room, you must focus on the best tips available and know how to approach the puzzles, so you'll get through the game without getting stuck for days.

Pay Attention To The Numbers And Colors

Every gun has a number next to it, letting you know its current state. Red means it has no ammo, white means it has some ammo, and green means it has the max ammo. Every gun type holds different amounts of bullets. The machine gun holds 25 ammo, but the handgun only holds ten. You'll have to combine ammo and put them in the guns to save space and complete puzzles.

The numbers also appear next to the ammo. You can stack the same ammo on top of each other to make more space in the inventory. If you ever see ammo in one of the puzzles, immediately put them in the weapons, so you don't forget about them.

Once you get started with the puzzle, you can easily overlook the ammo and find yourself unable to finish the puzzle. However, if you store the bullets first, you'll save some time on every puzzle. Don't start until all your guns have green numbers or you have no more bullets outside of firearms.

The max you can stack on ammo equals double what the weapon can carry.

That means if the machine gun holds 25 bullets, you can stack 50 on top of each other. If you ever forget how much you can stack, press the item button and click examine.

Immediately Remove All Items

Once you store the ammo, you should remove every item from the left side of the screen. Items rarely appear where they should go, so you'll want to move them out of the way to help you see the bigger picture.

For example, if you start a level with a rocket launcher in the box, find a space for it in the storage area. Doing so lets you see the entire space available in the carrying area, giving you a better picture of what you have available.

After you move the items, you can use the right side to test ideas and how to fit items together. It always provides more space than the case, so you can easily rotate your equipment, place it, and see where other ones fit in between them. It may take a bit more time, but you'll become more comfortable with the larger items and get a feel for how to fit them like puzzle pieces.

If you try a solution, but can't fit the items, don't be afraid to clear the inventory entirely.

Doing so will open your mind to new ideas since you won't feel like certain items must stay in the same spots.

Start With Large And Awkward Items

Once you clear the space, you should compare your items and see which ones are the biggest. You should start with them since they are the hardest to place on the board.

For example, if you have a rocket launcher or a shotgun, you'll probably want to start with them to figure out how to fit the others around them. You'll notice the magnum and the machine gun use six squares, but, the magnum has four squares on top and two on the bottom, while the machine gun has three on top, two below it, and one below it, making the shape harder to fit in different spots. Once you place the largest and most awkward items, you make it easier to fit the others.

You should also try all possibilities while you go through the equipment. You'll encounter puzzles where the rocket launcher can only fit in two or three spots. Since you know the rocket launcher must go in one of those spots, you can try them and see if you can get the following largest items to fit. If you find the spot impossible to work with, you narrowed down an option and can try the next one.

Examine And Combine Items

The game allows you to examine and combine items, so read through those descriptions whenever you encounter a new item. Some items may not seem important, but they can make things easier if you understand what items combine. For example, combining green, yellow, and red herbs will only take up two spaces instead of six in total.

Examining items also helps you learn how to use them. You'll eventually come across gunpowder that lets you craft ammo. However, if you randomly combine them, you may create the wrong bullets. Instead, you can examine the gunpowder and find out what it turns into if you combine it with other gunpowder. You can mix and match types based on what combines into the same types to create the bullets you need.

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Don't Be Efficient With Healing

While survival horror games teach you to remain frugal with your items, you must do the opposite in Save Room. The game expects you to use items as inefficiently as possible to make enough space in your box.

For example, you may have two green herbs, a yellow one, and a red one, while your character has red health. You'll return to full health if you combine the green, yellow, and red herbs and eat them. But you'll still have two squares filled with a green herb, and once you reach green health, you can't use any more items. Instead, you should eat a green herb at red health to reach the yellow state. You'll then take the full-restore one to reach the green, getting rid of all of them.

If you have rotten eggs or fish in your inventory, eat them while you're at full HP. Doing so will drop your health, allowing you to use more items and free up space.

Count The Squares

Every puzzle has squares that make up the inventory and storage areas. As you combine items and do what you can to lower the amount left, you should count the number of squares available before you try to place the items.

It may seem excessive, but you'll avoid wasting your time as you do it. For example, if you combine items and find yourself with 22 squares in the box but 23 squares in the storage, you don't have enough space to complete the puzzle. That means you did something wrong while using and combining items, so you need to try again.

Since the carrying area can have awkward shapes, you may not want to count it.

However, that minute or so of counting will save you time if you don't combine the items correctly. Instead of wasting time later, you can spend a bit of time now to ensure you can solve the puzzle.

Completing puzzles can become complicated and annoying, so you'll have to change how you look at them. Adjusting your perspective helps you look into oversights, figure out what you missed, and find the solution. You'll find yourself breezing through the game as you utilize tips and focus on strategies to make the process easier.

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