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Escape Room The Game: Virus

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the [[Prison Break]] review for general comments about the Escape Room The Game bundle – this scenario is only available as part of the set.

Virus has a laboratory find-the-antidote plot, another staple theme for escape games. The background sto… (more)

Escape Room The Game: Prison Break

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

Escape Room The Game is one of the higher profile boxed escape games available, and comes as a boxed set of four scenarios plus a battery-operated decoder device. Although the four games can only be purchased as a single pack, I’m reviewing each scen… (more)

Lock Paper Scissors: Rebel Revolt

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

Also (or previously?) known as Heist Party, Lock Paper Scissors appears to be an enthusiastic one-man operation providing escape room experiences as print-and-play downloads.

I’m reviewing this as a room-in-a-box game, but note that the intention is… (more)

Respublica Obscura: Libertas

Dubrovnik, Apr 2017

Respublica Obscura embroils you in a conspiracy set in a period of Dubrovnik’s history where the city was an independent republic under the shadow of the Ottoman Empire, though I was never completely clear whether I was trying to foil the conspiracy … (more)

Dubrovnik Escape Room: Save King’s Landing!

Dubrovnik, Apr 2017

Dubrovnik’s first escape room draws on the city’s alter ego as King’s Landing in Game of Thrones, and while you don’t need any knowledge of the TV series or books, fans will enjoy the references to events in those.

Stepping into this room gave a rar… (more)

Escape Room Sarajevo: Mystery

Sarajevo, Apr 2017

When we visited Sarajevo’s first (but no longer only) escape venue, finding it involved navigation of a deserted industrial estate quite some way out from the city centre – but they’re in the process of relocating to a very central location, so it sh… (more)

Ex(c)iting Game: Project: The Diamond

Oxford, Mar 2017

Ex(c)iting Games’ second room is refreshingly well-lit, a relief after Warehouse. It also has a novel twist: in the briefing we were warned that a security guard might sometimes look into the room, so when we heard footsteps we had ten seconds to hid… (more)

Ex(c)iting Game: The Warehouse

Oxford, Mar 2017

Ex(c)iting Games is a small independent company conveniently located right next to the Headington bus stop on the route to London, and Warehouse was the first of their two rooms that we played.

My heart sunk rather in the pre-game briefing when the … (more)

Unlock!: The Elite

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Elite is a free print-and-play game available as a demo of the Unlock! system. As such, you’re probably reading this either because you want to know whether it’s worth the minimal cost and effort to print off a copy, or because you’ve played The … (more)

Unlock!: The Island of Doctor Goorse

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Unlock! games continue to surprise and impress me at how much they manage to do purely with a deck of cards. First they managed to re-introduce search as a major part of the game (though there’s much less of that here than in the first two), and … (more)