Kategorie-Archive: Online

Sherlocked PH: The Cabin

Online, Sep 2020

Interest in play-from-home remote experiences seems to be holding up; and companies continue to find new variations on escape game format. This Manila-based company’s approach is new on me: it takes what’s essentially an old-school Flash-style escape… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Movember Virtual Moscape Room

Online, Oct 2020

Deadlocked’s first two online games are much loved by enthusiasts, so the release of their third was much anticipated. And this one is released in support of the charity Movember, with a third of the price going to the charity.

You might wonder (I c… (more)

Kauai Escape Rooms: Curse of the Tiki Lounge

Online, Sep 2020

The bad news is that you’re unlikely to get to play this game: we played by livestream in the last few days before it was due to be torn down, with the owners vacating the premises to concentrate on their puzzles-by-post product. That’s doubly a sham… (more)

TrapDoor Escape Stream: Cure Z

Online, Aug 2020

Cure Z is a different kind of beast to other avatar rooms. TrapDoor were one of the very first companies to produce a remote play experience, and they’ve forged their own path – sort of a separate branch on the evolutionary tree of escape room format… (more)

Live Cam Escape: Frankenstein’s Laboratory

Online, Aug 2020

The name might sound like a new operator sprung up in the time of lockdown, but Live Cam Escape is an alias for Polish escape venue Let Me Out, based in various locations in Poland (plus Brussels), and their avatar games are pre-existing rooms, thoug… (more)

Escape Hotel: Caçadores do Tesouro Perdido (Temple)

Online, Aug 2020

The way a gamemaster operates a physical escape room can make it or break it, and that goes triple when playing via a remote livestream. Temple was unfortunately one where the style of avataring significantly detracted from the game.

First impressio… (more)

Escape Masters Wellington: Serial Killer

Online, Aug 2020

Escape Masters in Wellington have a plethora of games, and I selected their serial killer theme mainly based on timing. This follows the classic setup of waking up in the grisly den of a murderer, with an hour to solve your way to freedom before he r… (more)

Omescape San José: Pursuit of the Assassin Artist

Online, Sep 2020

Omescape’s game has you up against a murderous serial killer, who is also one of the world’s leading artists. If that sounds strange and incongruous, well, this is a strange and incongruous game – in all the best ways.

I’m going to avoid describing … (more)

Crystal Maze Online

Online, Sep 2020

When escape room websites try to explain what they are to the uninitiated, over and over again they use the same cultural touchstone as their reference: the 90s TV gameshow The Crystal Maze. These days there is of course a live version open to the pu… (more)

Escapology Las Vegas: Th3 C0d3

Online, Aug 2020

Does that which happens in Vegas still stay in Vegas if the participants are remotely connected from a different continent? In Escapology’s game we were (collectively?) FBI agent Alex Vargas, who in proper Hollywood lone wolf style is breaking into t… (more)