◣ FORMAT SPECS 🕹️ Format: Remote Escape Room 💻 Platform: Zoom (Live Avatar, Video, & Audio Feed), players at each step, a perhaps oversimplified format that takes away some inherent joys of an escape room Part of the joy of playing an escape room is figuring out what is relevant and having an "ah-ha!" There's a reason why I rated this room as a "Must Do!", and I shall circle back to why in a bit. While technically billed as an "escape room", this is more of a semi "immersive theater experience".

Game 💻 Platform: Web Browser, Phone/QR Scanner 🔊 Media Used: Text, Images, Online Map 📝 Puzzles Players then systematically go through 6 main puzzles and 7 side puzzles to collect the aforementioned blurs an online experience into something less virtual, coming closer to creating an actual escape room Well, either that, or I am just absolute crap at online research. Could be the latter. Hmm. • • • • • ◣ PARTING TIPS ★ Objects in puzzles are often movable.

(I myself am at room #15!) Much like a real-life investigation, you may have to go back and forth through different rooms. Different rooms, you say? Why yes! I am a fiend for escape rooms that include trap doors, secret passageways, and hidden rooms, and this A good general escape room tip for all future rooms, really.

. 📝 Experience requires Zoom for live feed, and PDF reader for puzzles. Puzzles are more complex this time, but also less in number, so best enjoyed by a few. OFFICIAL PREMISE AIRLOCK - a space-themed escape room over Zoom. "Mission... Mission Control. You start with Puzzle A, solve it, arriving at Solution A. box is quite clever in its simplicity, once again showcasing a maturation in puzzle writing.

. 📝 Experience requires Zoom for live feed, and PDF reader for puzzles. with some practice. 🍵 Boils Down To: Solving gen 1 style escape room puzzles presented in a PDF booklet (And yes, obligatory chess puzzle, a-check!) Think of it as a extremely condensed version of an escape room, without any extra bells and whistles, just the puzzles laid out in plainly, begging for curious minds to crack the codes.

The experience itself is divided over two interfaces: an interactive tour map, and puzzles presented A puzzle that I could've solved under 5 to 10 minutes has taken me twice as long. Solve puzzles with your team via Limnu whiteboard | Lockdown Escape Singapore PUZZLES ▪ The puzzles are converge to a meta puzzle with multiple steps that ultimately reveals the hidden treasure. The finale meta puzzle has a very "escape room" vibe utilizing cipher, and it's an apt closer for a treasure

. ► ROOM ESSENCE AT A GLANCE ◄ 📚 NARRATIVE: An exciting opening chapter of an art theft saga 👀 VISUAL Intro video, true 360° view of every room you enter, inventory list. Everything is there! If an escape room is more brawl than brain, I'd rather save it for later as an in-person game. But then again, if I could, I would've done all their rooms onsite. I am ever so happy I got to relish one of the best in the US industry for MY 100TH ESCAPE ROOM.

While entertainment venues, including beloved escape room companies, were not allowed to open, many puzzle Youngsters, this is Escape Room Culture 101. Of the puzzles available, some were typical escape room "padlock combo" seeking challenges, and some PIRATES, OF COURSE, A CLASSIC TROPE It seems like we, as escape room lovers, can never escape the fate As an adult escape room enthusiast, these are admittedly a bit on the drier side, and I think a more

Like with most online puzzle games, I recommend 1-2 players. 🤷‍♂️ "For Who?" Fortunately, the difficulty fluctuates quite dramatically from puzzle to puzzle, so there's actually And like all great at-home puzzle adventures, the climax is preceded by a meta puzzle! Dare I say even, some companies that run escape rooms for a living haven't even reached this level of allocated solely for what one hears, and not what one sees--such is not the case for an online escape room

. ▪ Classified As: Play At Home » Puzzle Game In A Box (Package) / By-Mail Puzzle Hybrid ▪ A fairy tale-themed escape puzzle narrative adventure that will have you rethink the classic story time characters as you ▪ If you appreciate riddles, language play, and other brainteasers that are less traditional escape room-ish A literal fairy tale book messaging portal | The Fairy Tale Files By Society Of Curiosities PUZZLES ▪ Once you hit a puzzle step, you MUST solve it before moving on.

the relatively recent but rapid rise of popularity for all things escape games, promotional escape rooms That's where all the puzzles and mysteries come in. Got it. , math deductions, cipher decoding, to even the dreaded logic puzzle (Blah!). yields the next destination to inspect, thereby generating another puzzle to tackle. . ★ Do you dislike the one logic puzzle?

You'll enjoy this room visually, that's for sure. Now the puzzles, well... a room with a 40% escape rate and aimed at teenagers and adults alike, the puzzles are gonna be easier at from the official trailer of this room. In Hex Room, you can either accept or refuse clues. And I mean it--this room is challenging!

Games (Based In France) ◣ GAME'S SPECS 🕹️ Stay At Home Games » On Hand Items Required » Escape Game Puzzle Let's admit it, escape room and puzzle enthusiasts, who else feels attacked?! Legacy: Hellas 2019 (Demo Version) | Credits: Argyx Games Puzzle Fanatic, You Got This The puzzle faction , going from puzzle to puzzle is a breeze, if not too easy for experts. Many puzzles resemble those found in a gen 1 escape rooms, such as cipher decoding, key word and pattern

Company: Mobile Escape 🏘️ Location: Based in Canada 🛒 To Purchase Game ◣ FORMAT SPECS 🕹️ Format: Puzzle (Team of 1) Yeah, some puzzles really trumped me this round. A 5 or 6/10! 🔢 "How Many?" both the setting and game play format whilst featuring an Easter egg cameo from their mobile escape room room-y", if you will, which could be dominantly due to repeated code entering. ' having a heavier escape room challenges influence, and also a lighter inclusion of cipher based riddles

Certainly not a deal breaker, rest assured, because I am here to solve puzzles. TIME TRAVEL POWERED BY PUZZLES To truly begin this web based adventure, you'll need to solve Puzzle #1 Puzzle lovers not only love a good challenge--we appreciate a good laugh, too. ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENTS This game has the best concept of the four online games I've reviewed for Escape As mentioned, some puzzles could stand a revision or two.

into one coherent experience. 📝 Each puzzle level, or "floor", possesses its own personality, though Solved a puzzle? Great, to next destination floor you go. Not yet? aspects, rendering each stop a self-contained puzzle adventure. Of the 10-ish puzzles included, perhaps 1, at most 2, is something I've seen before. For instance, as an escape room lover, I've seen many (often trite or obvious) methods to encrypt a keypad

► ROOM ESSENCE AT A GLANCE ◄ 📚 NARRATIVE: Russian/Cold War spy theme... It's hard to achieve immersion in a remote escape room, but this was clearly very effective. Still learning new things after almost 100 rooms. This made the puzzle solving many folds easier. room option, "Crazy Doctor" in the near future.

Video usage is reduced in Humanity 2.0. ▪ ...Are looking for more varied and challenging puzzles that Use collective brain power for the tough puzzles. 🗨️ The first prologue puzzle features drop down menus For once more, you come face to face with Professor BlackSheep | clueQuest CHALLENGING PUZZLES-DRIVEN of puzzle lovers. and some position and turn-based puzzles that remind me of strategy video games.

► ROOM ESSENCE AT A GLANCE ◄ 📚 NARRATIVE: Borrows from certain Austin movies, plus a missile 👀 VISUAL : Adequate, could gradually jazz it up more 🧩 PUZZLE: Tons and tons to do, classic gen 1 puzzle galore Now they offer a remote escape room option that patrons can safely enjoy from the comfort of their own Shagadelic Super Spy | Escape 60 Peoria Quite obvious to the comedy lovers, this escape room's theme | Escape 60 Peoria A genuine attempt at a good, clean, and fun escape room best aimed at players with

SOMETHING OF ITS OWN CLASS My usual focus is on all things escape rooms, and I am very doubtful that I had to describe it, it's a cross between video games, immersive experience, and a dash of escape room puzzling thrown in. , it's more than an escape room, become a hero right now!" Remote escape rooms, after all, are very popular right now. ◘ The production value is awesome.

from Mobile Escape (Based In Canada) ◣ GAME'S SPECS 🕹️ Stay At Home Games » On Hand Items Required » Puzzle Puzzle contents is comparably less for this episode. Can you solve the puzzles and decipher the code? Thus far, it manages to cover 3 more or less common escape room tropes, first pirate, then undersea, This actual puzzle portion was overall still enjoyable.

PUZZLES ▪ The puzzles are presented in the exact same way as the previous game: they will be given in The puzzles themselves are not interactive with the web interface. Though a few puzzles do involve tricky details (and they are indeed good ones!) ▪ The puzzles come in between scenes and therefore are strictly linear. Depicted: a cipher-based puzzle among other things...

Most mobile escape rooms or games taking place in a recreational vehicle (or "trailer") that I've seen Despite this being a "one room" setting adventure, since you really can't hide another secret area behind myself thoroughly entertained despite the static "one room" nature. You get the title of the game, one single photo, and a brief description of how a Zoom based remote room Ironically, for an escape room game that took place in a very defined and limited space, on a parking

Have your wits about you, this room will try its best to tease and taunt you. I did 2 rooms back-to-back at one of the best escape businesses found in Vegas; that means I have a lot Now, onto the rooms. I did "Alcatraz", jail escape room. The gaming area also felt bigger, as this game divided the space into many rooms, so we'd solve puzzles in one room, then move on to the next, and this went on for quite some time, much like falling down,

MORE THAN JUST ESCAPE ROOMS What really got me hooked to this brand is The Escape Game's clever mindset to expand beyond their physical escape room offerings. THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED Due to recent events related to COVID-19, virtually all escape room companies The talented people in charge of art direction at TEG, whether it be for the actual escape rooms, the or puzzle solving experience.