Schlagwort-Archive: The Panic Room

The Panic Room: Frankenstein’s Book

Room-in-a-box, Apr 2021

With all of The Panic Room’s puzzle books, I recommend pulling the pages out and cutting them up where directed, rather than trying to preserve the book intact; with Frankenstein’s book it was immediately clear that that was the only way to approach … (more)

The Panic Room: Panic Room

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2021

The Panic Room’s original eponymous game was about alien conspiracy theories, and this puzzle book follows the same theme, though I don’t believe there’s any cross-over in puzzle content with the physical room. As with the company’s other books, it’s… (more)

The Panic Room: The Book of Grimm

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2021

In addition to their fairly huge range of online games, The Panic Room now have a considerable library of puzzle books. Some of them, including this one, are also available as self-print PDFs with the same content, which makes the books fairly close … (more)

The Panic Room: The Exorcism of Isabelle

Online, Sep 2020

Having produced quite an array of online escape games since March, the remarkably prolific Panic Room are now bringing out a range of escape game puzzle books, of which Isabelle is one. This format makes me realise there’s a hazy dividing line betwee… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Stranglehold

Online, May 2020

Third in The Panic Room’s series of online CSI games, Stranglehold follows the well-trodden theme of tracking down a serial killer. Like the one before it, this is a game based around elimination: you have an initial list of suspects, who must be eli… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: The Mafia Murders

Online, May 2020

On starting the second play at home CSI game from The Panic Room, I assumed it would be very similar to the first – but no, or at least not exactly. The platform used to deliver the game is the same, of course – the same system of solve a puzzle, ent… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Grounded

Online, May 2020

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

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)

The Panic Room: Wizard of Oz

Gravesend, Nov 2018

With so many rooms based on classic stories ranging from Alice In Wonderland to Sherlock and Dracula it’s perhaps surprising that there aren’t more escape rooms themed for The Wizard of Oz; aside from one play at home game, this is the first I’ve see… (more)

The Panic Room: The Sacrifice

Gravesend, Nov 2018

Sacrifice is one of a handful of games by other designers that The Panic Room have added to their stable. It’s a thirty minute game set in a van, and is also known as Van Escape, under which name it’s a mobile game available for event hire. When it’s… (more)