von Escape Tales (webseite)
180-360 minuten
Sam must transverse a whole different reality! Through determination, and a bit of luck, he will be able to find his daughter, understand the cause of her condition, and wake her up.
The meeting with Mark was a week ago. Today, Sam stands in his basement, ready to Awaken his daughter.
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I found the gameplay to be a bit tedious, and the deciding factors for which ending you get to be somewhat arbitrary. Love the idea, but it felt weighted down by the details of the execution.


Mostly pretty good, but has a very weird property which makes me dock it a star-and-a-half. It's about the endings to this game. I'll put it here in ROT13 code to avoid accidental spoilers: gurer'f ab erny "tbbq raqvat"!! Rira gur "orfg" raqvat va gur tnzr vf fbzrjung ovggrefjrrg.

Super innovative hours of escape room puzzle mystery board game, perfect for team of 2!
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I've been saying for a while that the convention of a 60 minute time limit is an unnecessary constriction on play-at-home games, and that games would do better to aim for a longer play time and a more substantial experience. Escape Tales appear to have reached the same conclusion, and their debut game The Awakening is listed as 180-360 minutes duration (!). Up to six hours on the trot is on the long side even for me, but fortunately they've built in a mechanism for 'saving' your game state so th...
We would 100% recommend The Awakening games, but would add a provision that the story can get quite dark in places, with a content warning for themes of suicide, so tread cautiously if this concerns you. Perhaps give Children of Wyrmwoods a go, which doesn’t have a content warning, we’d definitely recommend giving Escape Tales a go!