The Waiting Room Walkthrough

This article is a **walkthrough** of *The Waiting Room*.

*The Waiting Room* is a side-project game by Adam which was made as a teaser for Welcome to the Game II. Like its' predecessor, it is a randomly generated puzzle game. Unlike the previous game, you can actually move, as before your movement was controlled by the game. You wake up in a cot in a grimy room. In the room next to you is a room with a computer. In order to proceed you will have to move the chair beside your cot toward the vent so you can climb up and travel to the other room.

**Note: In this game, any noise you make can be picked up in the top left, whether it be your microphone or actual noises in the game. If you crouch (hold Ctrl) you make less noise, but takes up more time, so it is important to note that.**

## Beginning The Game

Once the player is on the computer, there are filler notes along with a hidden note called 'Adam.txt' telling the player of their environment and how to escape.

## Websites

The websites on ANN are recycled from the original game. Some are dead link sites, but most work.

### Finding Hashes

#### Hidden Hash Cue

Like the previous game with the blue address bar, this game also has a similar cue which tells when a hash is on a site. Look at the planet in the bottom left of the browser. On a site with no hashes, the icon stops flashing as soon as website loads. On a site with a hash, the icon will flash two extra times after the website is fully loaded.

#### The Terminal

The Terminal is essential to the game because it decrypts the hashes you find while browsing the game. To unlock the terminal's password, you have to go to the files of the actual game. It is located at '\Steam\steamapps\common\Welcome to the Game\TheWaitingRoom\Data'. Use either Notepad or Notepad++ to open the file. It contains an 8-digit password. It is randomly generated and changes every time you restart the game. Once you put in the password, you can use the Terminal (don't close it otherwise it'll make you put in the password again). Every hash you find you will need to decrypt. This is an example of what a hash looks like: 1 - g8ktD9
To decrypt the hash, type in this: decrypt 1 g8ktD9
After a few seconds, the hash will be decrypted and look like this: 1 - G

#### Not all hashes are in the actual game

While playing the game when you find a hash you may notice that the sound effect plays but no hash is on the website. Similar to the password for the terminal being located in the Data folder of the game, hashes will also be found in the folder.

### Always Work

* Cheap Surgery
* Darkbook
* Euro Firearms
* Father Donald
* Forsaken Gifts
* Grandmas Fantasy
* Grave Thieves
* Hot Burners
* Kill For Me
* Organ Mart
* Passports R Us
* Pay 2 Rape
* Takedownman
* Tango Down
* The Bomb Maker
* The Loogaroo
* Warehouse 33

### Work at Certain Times

* Bathroom Cams - XX:00-30
* Doctor Murder - XX:00-30
* Hidden Cams - XX:00-30
* Legion - XX:00-30
* Shadow Web Portal - XX:00-30
* Burned At The Stake - XX:15-30
* Scream Bitch - XX:15-30
* Flesh Trade - XX:30-45
* The Doll Maker - XX:30-45
* The Mughel - XX:30-60
* Death Log - XX:45-60
* Greet My Sisters - XX:45-60
* IsEvil - XX:45-60
* Testical Muitlation - XX:45-60
* The Prey - XX:45-60

### Dead Links

* Corpses for Sell
* Dream Place
* Hackers4Hire
* Rosies Destruction
* SKYWEB
* SnuffPortal
* The8thSin
* The Butcher

## The Executioner

The Executioner is the only threat in the game. To avoid being caught the player has to sneak back into the other room (via the vent) and onto the cot, giving the Executioner the illusion that you are still sleeping in your cot. He will stare at you for around 15 seconds making sure you are actually sleeping. The player has to keep their eyes shut by spamming the left mouse. If the player opens their eyes, the Executioner will inject them with a sedative, causing a Game Over.
If the door opens from the other room, he will see you are not in your cot and you will get a Game Over. If you are in Computer Mode when this happens, he will appear behind you (or if you are quick enough, he will just kick the door open and run toward you) and punch you in the face. If you are in the vent when this happens, he will take you when you exit. To avoid this, you have to pay attention to his patrol time schedule to give yourself enough time to sneak through the vent and back into your cot before he catches you. His schedule is random, but it is generally a good idea to use the computer every 15 minutes before going back to your cot.

## You have all 6 hashes---now what?

In the Terminal, once you decrypt every hash you will arrange and combine it in its numbered order. Obviously, you will be left with a 6-digit password. You will have to type 'gatekeeper (password)' in the terminal, and the message will say "Opening Doors", which will open the doors for 10-20 seconds. You HAVE to take the left path in order to avoid a Game Over because the Executioner is standing behind the door that leads to the right path (presumably a troll by the developer) to ambush and strangle the player. Once you exit the building via the left path the ending triggers.

### Ending

The Player speaks and is calling a woman named Amelea. She doesn't pick up, so he leaves a voicemail telling her to stop looking into the Deep Web before she gets kidnapped aswell. He is presumably at his own house by now (which he just got kidnapped from) as a glass breaking sound effect is heard. Someone shoots him mid-call, either someone connected with the Executioner or The Prey, and the game ends with a trailer of the next game.