Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Unlock!: The Island of Doctor Goorse

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Unlock! games continue to surprise and impress me at how much they manage to do purely with a deck of cards. First they managed to re-introduce search as a major part of the game (though there’s much less of that here than in the first two), and … (more)

Unlock!: The Formula

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the Squeek and Sausage review for a general overview of the Unlock! game system. For those purchasing all three games as a single box, The Formula is the first game… (more)

Exit: The Pharaoh’s Tomb

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the review of Exit’s Abandoned Cabin game for more information on the base game mechanism. Pharaoh’s Tomb is the third and last (for now) game available in the series,… (more)

Exit: The Secret Lab

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the review of Exit’s Abandoned Cabin game for more information on the base game mechanism – Secret Lab follows the same structure very closely. There is again a code w… (more)

Clockwork Dog: Loop

London, Mar 2017

Hidden behind a non-descriptive shop front facade, the staff greeted us in a very friendly way and in full character. Some reservations I had about the small waiting area were quickly dispelled, since it immediately felt like we were in an immersive … (more)

Unlock!: Squeek and Sausage

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Unlock! series of play-at-home escape games from Space Cowboys is sold in Europe as a single box of three games, but in the US as three separate games. While all share the same game system, each of the three has a different author and illustrator… (more)

Exit: The Abandoned Cabin

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Exit range of boxed escape games by KOSMOS were previously only available in German, and have finally been released for English audiences.

Like the ThinkFun games, the game uses a code-wheel mechanism. Each puzzle in the game is marked with a sy… (more)

Wrażenia: Czerwonej Królowej (Red Queen’s Court)

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Wrażenia had only been open for around a month when we visited, and Red Queen’s Court is their first and so far only game. It’s also the second game we played in Warsaw with an Alice In Wonderland theme.

They have a pricing gimmick that may appeal t… (more)

FunEscape: Zen Master

Warsaw, Mar 2017

FunEscape is located some way out of Warsaw centre. On the Sunday lunchtime we visited, there seemed to be a children’s birthday party visiting (room escapes in Warsaw appear to sometimes cater for a younger audience than most UK games), and the wait… (more)

FunEscape: Lost Girl

Warsaw, Mar 2017

This room started with great promise. After an interesting initial setup in the first room, I was very disappointed with the remainder.

They had gone for a dark room, which can be done very well; this wasn’t. At least two of the torches weren’t pow… (more)