Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Trapt Melbourne: Alchemy At Home

Online, May 2020

Reviewing remote play games is a curious shift where most of the factors that make a physical room good or not still apply, but where the gamemaster and the technology and the way they operate the game end up mattering as much or even more. Alchemy w… (more)

Brainstorm Escape Rooms: CSI

Online, May 2020

A caveat, here – I played this game when they’d fairly recently opened and were still experimenting with the remote play format. So it’s likely they’ll refine how the game works following further experimentation.

The name of the game might suggest a… (more)

Safarka: Dream Gallery

Online, May 2020

I really don’t know how to feel about Dream Gallery. It wilfully ignores conventions that I expect and rely on in escape rooms, from single use of items to use of outside knowledge, through various smaller things that are hard to describe without spo… (more)

Escape Works Denver: War Games Wired

Online, May 2020

As you might or might not have guessed from the name, Escape Works Denver’s first remote play game is inspired by the 80s Matthew Broderick movie involving a military computer at risk of triggering World War 3 – I don’t know if it’s intentional, but … (more)

Fuzzy Logic Escape Room: Veterinarian’s Office

Online, May 2020

This was the first remote livestream escape room I tried, and so I waited awhile before attempting to write a review – with an entirely new format, inevitably a lot of your initial impressions reflect the format not the individual game, and it’s only… (more)

Elgin Escape: Murder Mansion

Online, Jun 2020

Elgin Escape’s online game takes you, an freshly-minted and enthusiastic detective, into a boarded up old mansion that was the site of a murder that’s gone unsolved by all previous attempts… which frankly suggests that previous detectives didn’t pu… (more)

The Escapement: The Network

Online, May 2020

In this recent rush of online games, The Network is an exception, because it’s so very physical. There are important elements delivered in your browser, including the audio and video that provide the story, but each of its three stages are primarily … (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Stranglehold

Online, May 2020

Third in The Panic Room’s series of online CSI games, Stranglehold follows the well-trodden theme of tracking down a serial killer. Like the one before it, this is a game based around elimination: you have an initial list of suspects, who must be eli… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: The Mafia Murders

Online, May 2020

On starting the second play at home CSI game from The Panic Room, I assumed it would be very similar to the first – but no, or at least not exactly. The platform used to deliver the game is the same, of course – the same system of solve a puzzle, ent… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Grounded

Online, May 2020

First of The Panic Room’s several CSI games, and one of the first online games to be released after the lockdown, Grounded is a murder mystery on a plane: one of the passengers collapsed mid-flight, apparently due to foul play.

The game’s initial p… (more)