Escape Fun: Utopia Institute

A nice video led introduction to this virtual escape room. It’s a point and click style search which was okay. The first puzzle did need relatively careful clicking though which didn’t seem to be required throughout (just one particular aspect). 

There are four rooms with puzzles in each. Seemed strange not be able to go back to the first room from the second, but very useful moving from third to second. 

The third room puzzle solved required another interaction which for 3 of our 4 (all separate laptops) players was fine but 1 took over five minutes to complete (that’s downgraded the score a bit as it just got boring). 

A nice three stage puzzle to end and another good bit of video.

Timings for finishing ranged from 58 mins to 1hr 2 mins simply because the cookies must be stored on each computer and not per the whole team. We were surprised at the sudden end but we’ve been playing online rooms relatively slowly. Would have preferred a bit more but it’s good enough.

Good value for money though, and a nice intro game for anyone who has yet to get into online escapes.