Schlagwort-Archive: Online

The Panic Room: CSI: Grounded

Online, May 2020

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
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)

The Panic Room: My Dearest Emily

Online, May 2020

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
In between The Panic Room’s various CSI-themed online games, My Dearest Emily sticks out rather. In stark contrast to the usual escape room themes of peril and world-saving, it’s set in a lesser-known part of 19th Century US history, and tells a gent… (more)

Hysteria Escape Rooms: The Bank Job

Online, May 2020

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Playing an escape game from home requires a little extra suspension of disbelief, when players are sitting in a familiar living room not a simulated bank vault. Some games deal with that by saying the players are ‘remote support’ or some such; The Ba… (more)

Crime Runners: Back To The Congressman

Online, May 2020

Rated 4 out of 5
Not having (yet) played Crime Runners‘ physical escape rooms, I don’t know the details of the story of which this online game is a continuation. That wasn’t a barrier to playing this, though it did make me quite curious to go and discover what the ea… (more)

clueQuest: Stolen IQ

Online, Apr 2020

Rated 4 out of 5
An upfront warning for this game: clueQuest’s title ‚Print + Cut + Escape‘ is accurate in all its parts. Before the Escape and after the Print, there is a great deal of Cut – you need to go through the game’s pages and cut out a great many components… (more)

Co-Decode: A Jewel In Jeopardy

Online, Apr 2020

Rated 4 out of 5
There’s an elegance in economic design. And where the other print and play games I’ve tried consist of a fat wad of pages, Co-Decode’s game consists of a mere 3-5 sheets (their game description avoids specifying the exact number, so I’ll follow suit)… (more)