Kategorie-Archive: Online

Headlock Escape Rooms: Rise of the Fungi

Online, Dec 2024

The pandemic spurred a wave of innovation in games that could be played from home, and while some approaches were more successful than others, Headlock’s Zoom-based mashup of puzzles, puppets and songs was absolutely one of the finest creations to em… (more)

Cinescape: Dr Kiefern’s Basement

Online, May 2024

After a gap of more than two years, I found myself playing an avatar game again. While the pandemic lockdowns are thankfully a thing of the past, extreme flooding in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul left some of the local venues closed down i… (more)

Online-Escape-Room.com: Escape The Tomb

Online, Sep 2023

The website currently offers three online point-and-click escape rooms, of which Escape The Tomb is labelled as the middle difficulty, and in which you need to solve puzzles to get out of a pyramid.

The art is simple, clean computer graphics, the st… (more)

Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space: Floor 13

Online, Jan 2022

If I copy-pasted in my review for The Lost Temple, CU Adventures’ other digital game, it would need only a little adjusting to be equally suitable for Floor 13 – which, given how much I liked that one, is very much a good thing.

Floor 13 uses the sa… (more)

Crime Runners: Beneath Vienna

Online, Dec 2021

In the early days of the pandemic, Crime Runners were one of the first companies to release a fully digital escape game; and while there are now plenty of games that share its point-n-click style of gameplay, at that time it was quite unusual. Beneat… (more)

Meridian Adventures: The Travellers‘ Guide to Little Sodaburg

Online, Nov 2021

Some games defy easy categorisation, and Little Sodaburg is one of them. I’ll give it a go, though: you could describe it as ‘an online digital game with a live host’, as ‘a comedy adventure full of team-based tasks’, ‘an unexpected gem’, or just ‘ma… (more)

Trapped Puzzle Rooms St Paul: Spirit Train

Online, Nov 2021

Spirit Train is a difficult game to rate – I feel that I’d score it very differently depending on who I’m talking to. Some teams will find it beautiful and magical, and others will be left unmoved. It’s unquestionably a lovely experience, crafted wit… (more)

Ultimate Quest: The Last Pyramid

Online, Oct 2021

Lockdown led to a flurry of innovation in online entertainment, and Last Pyramid is part of the small escape room adjacent genre of team challenge/puzzle game – The Crystal Maze remains the obvious point of comparison.

There’s a sci-fi theme and a s… (more)

The Escape Network: Armageddon

Online, Oct 2021

Armageddon is a point-and-click game set in Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker. Those familiar with the location may recognise that that’s the site of Clue HQ Brentwood, which runs a large-team game with the same name, on which this game is I believe at l… (more)

Puzzled Frog Interactive: Captain Nemo’s Treasure

Online, Sep 2021

With physical escape rooms open once more, there’s only a trickle of new play from home games appearing – but Puzzled Frog are bucking the trend, with their first game being designed for remote avatar play. Note that it’s also unusual in using a publ… (more)