Bewilder Box & Eltham Escape: Sector X: The B.R.U.C.E. Project Part 1

By | April 28, 2020

by Bewilder Box & Eltham Escape (website)

£15.00

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Pilot an experimental robot through 60 minutes of mind boggling challenges designed by the award winning team behind Eltham Escape Rooms and Bewilder Box
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based on ratings from 46 users
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Anonymous rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 29/04/2020 Team size: 4 Time taken: 58:14 Outcome: Successful escape!

Really enjoyed playing this with my regular escape room group during lockdown! 

lc86 rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: May 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 minutes Outcome: Successful escape!

Full of escape room style puzzles. So much fun! Can't wait for Part 2

shasha experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 25.04.2020 Team size: 3 Time taken: 71:45 Outcome: Successful escape!

Very well put together online sync game you can play with others over the internet. All players see the same thing, so no parallel play option. The graphics are nice, some hilariously bad jokes and nice puzzles. Not groundbreaking but very clever and neat game.

egnor expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
An amusing multiplayer online puzzle game with a cute sense of humor. The multiplayer synchronization is nice but was flaky in our game (we had to restart once).
Andy Hillion rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: Friday 8th May 2020 Team size: 4 Time taken: 90 mins

Awesome game.  Lots of lateral thinking and easy to follow but fun instructions.

We'll definitely be back for part TWO!!

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Lukas Rauscher rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 4.5.2020 Team size: 3 Time taken: 1 hour 12 Minutes 1 hint Outcome: Successful escape!
That was so charming and fun. one of my favourite of it's kind!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 2020-04-29 Team size: 4 Time taken: 1:08:32 Outcome: Failed 🙁

Really enjoyable - a great way to do an escape room with friends during lockdown. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Robin Harris & Michael Bailey experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 03/05/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 52 minutes 16 seconds Outcome: Successful escape!
Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 29.04.2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 1hr30ish Outcome: Failed 🙁

WOW this game was so much fun to play, the puzzles were beautiful and it really had the feel of a real escape room, I definitely felt under pressure! The puzzles were hard enough that we found this a real challenge (as you can tell by our appalling time) but it was so satisfying when we worked it out. I can't wait for part 2! 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 29/04/2020 Team size: 4 Time taken: 58.:14 Outcome: Successful escape!

Works very well as a collaborative remote play online escape room. Looking forward to Part 2!

Joe Brown expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 2/5/20 Team size: 2

Great tech, well suited for people in different locations, fun code breaking puzzles.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Moosehead expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
originalfunny
Worldwide Cancer Research rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5

Great activity for virtual team building. We bought 2 keys to introduce a bit of healthy competition. Made a good change from virtual quizzes or awkward virtual work drinks. Discovered some hidden talents for problem solving!!

neurodoclove rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Mark Jackson experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 3
family friendlyplain
EireBanshee expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: August 2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Great interface, good puzzles, and humor for a bonus.

jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
overpriced
PuzzleParrot expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5

Short, simple, fun.  When this came out, early in the pandemic, there wasn't much else like it.  At this point, there are now longer, cleverer, more challenging games for the price point, but it's still cute and worth a play.

Charly expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Avatar Creative rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5

Blew our minds, loved it so much.  We loved the in-person one so had high hopes for the digital version, it did not disappoint. Well done team, my team loved it. Tricky, brain taxing and considered. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Wei-Hwa Huang expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 5/25 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

Effectively an interactive computer puzzle game that multiple players can control at the same time.  But while different players can certainly try different things in their notes, I wish there were more opportunities for players to simultaneously do things at the same time.  Still, I'm adding an extra star to encourage development in this direction.

stairs expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 16/05/2020 Team size: 10 Time taken: 70 mins Outcome: Successful escape!

First time trying an escape room online - has really good fun with friends.  Good way to spend an evening.  Worked well with friends in different houses

🌵Juliette B expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 25/04/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 80.00 Outcome: Successful escape!

Funny and engaging (as you would expect from the Bewilder Box team - I've not had the fortune to play the Eltham live games as of yet). Our first experience of online ER so hard to judge value but we had a good time overall (albeit a lot of cursing over being very stuck on one puzzle). Felt like good value for money and would definitely play the next part. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5

Reviews by escape room review sites

A collaboration from the escape room companies Bewilder Box and Eltham Escapes, Sector X is an online escape game where you must guide the robot B.R.U.C.E. through a series of puzzles. The new breed of online escapes is very diverse in style, and this one uses a custom computer interface with cute retro graphics. Although it looks like a computer game, you're not moving the robot around in the style of, say, a platform game - rather, there are hotspots to click on that show puzzle clues o...

Take a pinch of Bewilder Box, a dash of Eltham Escapes and mix it together with a healthy dollop of fun. Throw in a perfectly blended use of technology, and you have the recipe for a great time

Love robot jokes? This game had plenty! I love it when humor could be added to a puzzle game as it definitely eases the tension between the teammates during puzzle solving.

If I had a penny for every time someone told me I HAD to play The B.R.U.C.E. Project by Bewilder Box I’d be … Well … A bit better off than I am now. Point being, this game felt like a long awaited rite of passage I needed to play. Having finished it, it’s not my favourite play at home game every but I completely understand why it’s on the pedestal it is. It’s really UNIQUE and cracks a lot of problems of collaboration that other escape games still struggle with. A big round of applause for Bewilder Box and Eltham Escape Room’s ingenuity on this one.


Read the full, detailed review at EscapeMattster.com ⬊
B.R.U.C.E. shares much of it’s DNA with more traditional computer games and is in some ways a love letter to the world of retro-geek tech

Sector X: The B.R.U.C.E. Project is a fun and quirky game that has a good range of challenging puzzles tucked under its belt. Its setup encourages communication and teamwork, and it gets that right in spades. The simplistic design betrays some solid puzzlework that plays well to its medium.

I’d recommend this for work team building events (as we did it), and teams of 3-4 who aren’t too bothered about immersion and just want a good time.

Part 1 was a joy to play! A great way to scratch the escape room itch and a very different style of game to others out there. We cannot recommend this game enough!

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