Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Deckscape: Heist In Venice

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2018

Heist In Venice follows the normal Deckscape format with a couple of twists. Your mission is to steal a €1 billion Euro poker chip from a casino, and in the tradition of heist movies, you have a team of specialists: here provided by a set of six char… (more)

Deckscape: Behind The Curtain

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2020

Fifth in the Deckscape series (but the fourth one I’ve tried), Behind The Curtain has a conjuring theme and a backstory that starts with you attending a magician’s show. This is the usual Deckscape format, where you proceed through a deck of somewhat… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Insiders

Online, Apr 2020

Half the world is sheltering indoors from a pandemic sweeping the globe – not the plot of an escape game but the sad reality we find ourselves in. With physical escape rooms off limits, many companies are creating games which can be played over the i… (more)

Escape Reading: Ram Raid

Reading, Feb 2020

Many venues invest greater amounts of money and tech in each new game they create. I think that’s true of Escape Reading too, but they’ve also shown something rarer and more important: an ever-improving ability to make their games engaging, logical a… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Station X

Reading, Feb 2020

Time Trap’s wartime game is based around Bletchley counter-espionage. Set in a railway station, it gives you the job of identifying which of seven suspects is a spy. You have an additional bonus mission – apparently the spy has hidden several cylinde… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Pudding Lane

Reading, Feb 2020

Those who are less familiar with London history might assume Pudding Lane is confectionary themed – but of course this game is actually named after the place where the Great Fire of London began in 1666. Your team has been sent back in time, not to p… (more)

Knockout Escape Rooms: Curious Cabin

Reading, Jan 2020

Cabins in escape rooms have a tendency to turn grizzly – the ominous cabin in the woods trope. This one is an exception. It turns out to be a fairly normal miner’s cabin (normal other than being filled with puzzles, I guess); unfortunately, just at t… (more)

History Mystery: Secrets of the Tunnels

Norwich, Dec 2019

Most of the reviews I’ve written of games by History Mystery could start in a similar way, by saying: „this is the first game I’ve played inside…“. With Secrets of the Tunnels, that sentence ends with „…an underground medieval street“. This is a … (more)

Unlock!: Arsène Lupin and the Great White Diamond

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Arsène Lupin is another totem of French culture almost completely unknown to me, but who seems to be a mysterious but gallant master thief. In Unlock!’s game you are not the legendary criminal himself but a group of street urchins to whom Lupin has s… (more)

Unlock!: The Noside Show

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

While each Unlock! game is a stand-alone story, fully half the boxed sets have included an episode featuring the closest thing the series has to a recurring villain. The Noside Show is the third of these, and its cartoonish style of illustration and … (more)