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Fuzzy Logic Escape Room: Playground

Online, Jul 2020

They say in acting that you should never work with children or animals; and since the first game I played with Fuzzy Logic was all about the animals in their Vet’s Office game, it seems appropriate that the second was a kid theme. Your aim here is to… (more)

Escape Rooms Kidderminster: The Conspiracy

Online, Jul 2020

This game’s rather original premise is that you’re investigating the conspiracy theory that the moon landings were faked. I think the intention was that you were disproving the conspiracy by gathering evidence from the original landing, but it… (more)

The Ultimate Escape Rooms Ventura: The Wizard’s Lair

Online, Jun 2020

The Wizard’s Lair had much to recommend it and I really wanted to like it – and in many respects I did. At the same time, this was one game which I thought didn’t translate so well to the remote experience. Much of that was due to the game’s more sop… (more)

The Escape Artist: Count Dracula

Online, Jun 2020

One of the big advantages of playing remotely is how it removes geographical constraints in which games you play, letting you try one game in North America and another in Asia straight afterwards. Count Dracula is the first room I’ve tried from Singa… (more)

Get Lost Escape Rooms: Operation Paranormal Research Anomaly Taskforce

Online, Jun 2020

Get Lost have also been running their Krevokar game as a remote avatar experience, but Operation PRAT (Paranormal Research Anomaly Team) is their first online digital game. I found it a curious one to play, in that my initial impression of it was qu… (more)

ClueQuest: Print + Cut + Escape Episode 2: Alpha Brain System

Online, May 2020

When reviewing Cluequest’s first play at home game I complained about the amount of time it made me spend cutting out paper clues before I could start playing. With Alpha Brain Scan, instead of reducing that they’ve doubled down. Pre-game preparation… (more)

Trapped: The Bank Job

Online, Jul 2020

I have a suspicion that The Bank Job will rapidly end up being referred to in enthusiast circles as The Blue Bag, with Trapped’s other games being The Yellow Bag and The Green Bag respectively; their official game names are so squarely in the escapin… (more)

Lee Ballan: The Pyramid

Online, Jun 2020

The majority of the online escape games available are actually perfectly well suited to solo completion. A few involve team elements of some sort, where different players need to do different things at the same time or have different sets of informat… (more)

Adventure Rooms Cardiff: Virtual Mad Scientist

Online, Jun 2020

Normally I’d say that having played a lot of escape rooms is important for a reviewer, that having a broad range of points of comparison really helps assess a game. With Mad Scientist I wonder if having played too many makes it harder to make a fair … (more)

Conundrum Escape Rooms: Dead Man’s Secret

Online, Jun 2020

It’s a nice ego-stroke to be told you’re a brilliant puzzle solver before a game even begins – and that’s the initial premise of this game. The Dead Man of the title is a recently deceased billionaire who left his fortune to whoever could solve his r… (more)