Autor-Archive: escapethereview

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)

Big Break Hamburg: Operation Jackpot

Online, May 2020

No prizes for guessing from the title that this game is set in a casino – which, naturally, you’re aiming to rob. That gives a natural progression through trying to get into the casino, to casino-themed puzzles, and on to heist-themed puzzles.

This … (more)

Co-Decode: Operative Onboard

Online, Jul 2020

Co-Decode’s previous game A Jewel In Jeopardy was one of the strongest offerings of the early wave of digital games, and Operative Onboard picks up where that left off, both in narrative and in play style. As a description, ‚digital‘ is only partiall… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Cyphstress

Online, Jun 2020

A medical condition caused by too many puzzles? No, the Cyphstress is, in Deadlocked’s narrative, a mythical siren from Greek legend notorious for riddles, and perhaps also brewing beer – because this game was developed in collaboration with craft be… (more)

LogicLocks: The Secret of Eliza’s Heart

Online, Jun 2020

Although these days they’re more famous for their Catacombs experience, Logic Locks originally gained a reputation for their earlier game, Eliza’s Heart, which is now also available for remote play. As with Catacombs, they use a combination of Google… (more)

Trapped: Operation X-13

Online, Jun 2020

Although I’m delighted that during this time of lockdown it’s possible to play escape rooms remotely via a video livestream, there’s no question that I’d much rather play rooms in person, and normally assume that the remote format is an inevitable st… (more)

Marvo Mysteries: Phase One & Phase Two

Online, Jun 2020

The new breed of online digital escape games mostly fall into well defined types – most often webpage-based puzzles, some ARG (alternative reality game) style involving social media pages or Google Streetview, some point-and-click, some a hybrid of t… (more)