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Photo above is property of Amaze Escape 360 Company: Amaze Escape 360 Game: SDG Escape Room Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱 Language: English, Dutch Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Environmental Awareness, Educational Date Played: September 17, 2022 Difficulty (based on 5 players): 6/10 Size of Team: Up to 7 Players (Ages 12+) Time: Unlimited (Suggested 60-90 Mins) Price: €12.00/ Team 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Climate change and environmental issues are on the rise. How much damage has been done and how can we do better for our future? Search through the nooks and crannies of this cardboard, plastic, and cloth-constructed room and gather information - all of which are important for taking action against environmental deterioration. If you can get out in the first place. Video above is property of Amaze Escape 360 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Similar to a game formed using Telescape, it was a shared digital room where we could point and click to explore different corners of the room, pick up items, and interact with the room as needed. In order to progress the story, players had a virtual tablet with a list of questions that were meant to be answered after solving puzzles - with puzzle pieces, virtual puzzles, locks - around the room. With a shared inventory, the experience was highly collaborative, with the entire team’s puzzles considered solved as long as one person in the team is able to do so. The hint system was similar, with the need for a consensus among the entire team before we had access to a hint. However, do play this room with strong wifi or data connection, as we found ourselves in the middle of delayed frames and major lag at multiple points of the game. Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The point-n-click nature of this virtual room means being a thorough searcher is key to completing a good number of puzzles. For a majority of the game, we were searching for various components to put together with half-completed puzzles, before moving on to actual puzzles associated with the room itself. Most of the puzzles were also visual and self-containing, depending on what players could see in the virtual room rather than personal knowledge. Despite the need to answer questions on climate change to progress the lore of the room, the room was designed such that cipher keys, visual puzzles, and lock keys were within the area. Listening to or reading clues given with each puzzle you click or each item you pick up will also give you hints to placing the correct items to complete the correct puzzle. Photos above are property of Amaze Escape 360 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 One of the aspects that can get overlooked in an Escape Room would either be the lore or the story holding the room together. While the theming for this room was strong, it played more like an educational experience than an escape room. The puzzles and the technology definitely carried the room for this round, but I also appreciated the use of puzzles and personal interaction to educate audiences on the effects of climate change. Personalising such a major issue also gave players hope and a to-do list to think about after leaving the game itself. At the end of it all, this experience definitely encapsulated the fundamental definition of an Escape Room, I just wished there was a stronger story tying everything together. (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Amaze Escape 360 for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #JoelynAlexandra #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointNClick #AmazeEscape360 #Environmental #Educational #Netherlands

Some Photos below were provided by Puzzled Escape Games Company: Puzzled Escape Games Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Puzzles By Mail 📬 Date Played: 2/6/2021 Game: Coffee Cup Puzzles Genre: Detective Difficulty (based on 2 players): 5/10 Size of Team: Unlimited (Suggested 1-3 ppl) (Age 12+) Time: 1-2 hours (Approximately) Price: $40.00 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Someone has been stealing coffee from your client. She has reached out to see if you can help her crack this case! But before she can entrust you with the case, you'll need to pass her test first... 🆃🅷🅴 ❞🅻🅾🅾🅺🆂❞ "Coffee Cup Puzzles" came in a well protected cardboard box. Inside you'll find 4 coffee cups. Each cup is 11 oz. On the cups, there are words and images of puzzles. After game play, I put them all in the dishwasher and they seem to be dishwasher safe. There were no deterioration of the images after several washes. 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Start with the cup that has a QR code on it, Once you scan the code, you'll be led to a website where you'll receive an intro video of the backstory and instructions to your first puzzle. You'll need to solve all 4 cups (each cup took us about 5-10 minutes to solve) in order to proceed with more puzzles on the website. Each time you solved a puzzle, a video will appear, giving you more depth into the storyline. Answers are to be entered on the website. If you get stuck, there are hints and solutions on the website as well. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The puzzles were quite easy on the cups. Think of that as a warm up. Most of the puzzles were riddles, word play, emoji, etc...We did have to Google search some phrases that we were not familiar with. Once you get to the online puzzles, it'll be a bit more challenging. There will be a few deduction and Math problems. We found that it was easier to print out the pages rather than opening up multiple screens as you'll need to refer back and forth on the information given. The portal was quite easy to use and the videos tied the stories together quite nicely. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Embedding puzzles on a coffee cup is such a clever idea. After game play, you can utilize these cups everyday for drinks. After awhile, when you don't remember the puzzles anymore, you can even replay the game again. And if you decide not to use the cups, you can gift it away to friends! Game: The Box from the Future Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery Difficulty (based on 2 players): 6/10 Size of Team: Unlimited (Age 12+) Time: 2 Hours (Approximately) Price: $50.00 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Something bad is happening in the future. Dr. Milo has sent us a box from the future in hopes that we'll solve the puzzles in it in order to stop the individual who's going to cause a catastrophe. We must hurry! 🆃🅷🅴 ❞🅻🅾🅾🅺🆂❞ "The Box from the Future" came in a "tin foil" protected cardboard box as if it had just travelled through a time machine. Make sure you go to the website that's imprinted on the top of the box cover before starting the game. Inside the box you'll receive a wooden box with a lock, CD cover, small map, napkin, business card, a pin and other small paper clue items. It would be helpful if a check list could be provided as we only realized that we were missing items after we checked the hint system. 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Before opening the box, you'll be directed to a website. The website is the portal that connects you to the future and this is how you'll communicate with the team there. It's a fun concept and we enjoyed the humor from the character's stories. The portal is also quite easy to use. We did encounter one incident where the answer had to be very specific but most of time, it was able to recognize our submissions. You'll need to utilize Google search and maps for some puzzle components. If you're an international player, please note that you'll need to dial a US number at some point during the game. If you get stuck, there is a nudging hint system on the website. I'm not sure if we received an updated game or an old version of the game but a few puzzles hints were not matching up to our puzzle solutions. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The puzzles felt too generic and basic for us. Most of the puzzles were simple one step puzzles and many answers were really obvious and easily guessable. Since we had one item missing and it was the first item that was needed to start the meta puzzle, it also confused us on what we're looking for. Moreover, we played this game after the coffee cup puzzles and also saw some repeated usage of word play and riddles. We were hoping to see some variations in puzzle types with this game. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 For the price, we felt like the props could be upgraded to better quality. The puzzles were not really our cup of tea but we did enjoy the story concept and the comedic skits from the characters. If you are a beginner and just started exploring the tabletop game world, perhaps this could be a good place to start. *** We regret to inform this company has closed its doors *** Disclosure: We thank Puzzled Escape Games for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #ESCAPETHEROOMers #AtHomeGames #EscapeRooms #PuzzledEscapeGames #CoffeeCupPuzzles #PuzzlesByMail #Detective #Fun #Mystery #Merchandise #CoffeeCups #Decipher #Solve #TheBoxfromtheFuture #PuzzlesByMail #Adventure #SciFi #Mystery #EscapeRoomInABox #Decipher #Solve #TimeTravel

Photos above are property of Puzzled Escape Games Company: Puzzled Escape Games Game: The Professor of the Occult Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Game 💻 Genre: Mystery Date Played: September 18, 2021 Difficulty (based on 7 players): 5.5/10 Size of Team: Unlimited (Recommended 4 Players) Time: 60 minutes Price: $20.00/ Team 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 A professor at a local college is the prime suspect of the murder of three fellow colleagues but he has gone missing. There is a rumor that he and his victims may have been involved in the occult and, while your supervisor is a little skeptical on that theory, you’ve been tasked you to investigate the missing professor’s home to see if you can discover his whereabouts. 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 "The Professor of the Occult" follows a point-n-click adventure using a real-life room in 360. You receive a debrief from your supervisor before entering the office of missing professor to begin your exploration. If something requires further inspection it will faintly glow when you hover your mouse over it. In addition to the puzzles there are also a series of four cassette tapes that can provide helpful clues while also building the narrative during your progression in the game. I personally found the narrative to be interesting as gave a backstory to what led up to this moment. The video clips from your supervisor were also quite entertaining! This game is best played using a single shared screen between players in order to allow you to listen to key audio clips and solve puzzles jointly. This also ensures everyone is on the same page as certain aspects of the game become inaccessible after key points. There is no outside additional research required for this game, but I recommend having a pen and paper handy as a few puzzles require some organization. Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 This particular game utilizes quite a variety in puzzles that stem from traditional puzzles we’ve all seen. These are more longer style puzzles, so it still takes time to go through them. I enjoyed how these puzzles encouraged my group to work together but if I was to complete this alone, I would have seen some these as a little tedious. The puzzles utilized the space of the game well by adding a lot of movement to the puzzles, even if it was something as simple has having players click and drag pieces around to help visualize their solutions. I also found a couple puzzles where the solution seemed out of place with this occult style and ended up feeling simple. The ending itself was unique experience and I like how it pushed for active participation. As enthusiasts we completed this game in less than half the time allotted for this game, so this game skews towards new players to the digital escape world in terms of difficulty. Photos above are property of Puzzled Escape Games 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 "The Professor of the Occult" provides an intriguing narrative and a series of traditional puzzles that work well for a group event but, independently, they are things you have seen before. I think this is a good choice for when you get the group together and are looking for puzzles that encourage your group to actively collaborate. If you’re looking for something a little shorter with a neat memento to keep afterwards, I recommend checking out Puzzles Escape Games’ "Coffee Cup Puzzles"! *** We regret to inform this company has closed its doors *** Disclosure: We thank Puzzled Escape Games for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #JillianRaymond #AtHomeGames #ClickNPoint #Horror #Demons #PuzzledEscapeGames #USA

Photo above is property of Mobile Escapes Company: Mobile Escapes Game: The Un-Deserted Island Country: Canada 🇨🇦 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Adventure, Investigative Date Played: July 17, 2022 Difficulty (based on 4 players): 5/10 Size of Team: 2-5 Players (Ages 14+) Time: 60 Minutes Price: CAD 29.98 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 You wake up and find yourself in the middle of the sea, floating on a raft drifting towards an unidentified island. Where were you going? How did you find your way here? You only have your survival pack of items and the island ahead of you to find out. Will you be able to get yourself back to safety? Go through the puzzles that lay ahead of you to find out. 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 This multi-puzzle, multi-chapter (each chapter is a puzzle) point-n-click game progresses when players manage to solve each puzzle with the images and items in the survival pack given. Hints and solutions are provided at the bottom of each chapter page, though each hint will add a minute to your final time and each solution will add three minutes. However, do take note that unlike what I was expecting - which was a multiplayer-enabled, account-based game that progressed for the team as soon as one member solved the puzzle, hosted on the game’s website - it turned out to be a game where all four of us in our party had to go through the game on our own, despite all logging in to the same account. Photos above are property of Mobile Escapes 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 Puzzles here were highly visual - given how much art and design was put to place. While most puzzles were not difficult to put together, they still required a keen sense of observation and patience. One of the puzzles nearly sent one of our team members into a frenzy because it was too tedious and took too much time despite the straightforward steps. This was probably my only complaint about the puzzles - apart from 1 or 2 puzzles that required hints to decipher a slight leap of logic, one of the main challenges here was to get through puzzles that were tedious. You knew what to do, it was just a lot of going back and forth to do so. Though I would also caveat this and say that personally, I see no harm in asking for hints - so if your escape timing was not that big of a concern for you, just enjoy the process. And for all the puzzle work that was done, the ending was not something I was expecting. While the ending was not disappointing, it did leave me wanting to find out more about the lore of the island. Quick tip - it would be good to remember the kind of puzzles and what you used for each step of the way. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 I would imagine this game to be one of those games where either a group of us are seated in front of one single computer and playing together, or a game that everyone either competes or collaborates to go through while the players are communicating with each other via their own channels - Zoom, Streamyard, Discord, the works. While the game is account based, it’s not linked with a multiplayer capability. Therefore, all four of us were going through the puzzles at our own pace, sometimes giving each other hints before we resorted to using one of our own. If you’re looking for a solo or dual-player experience, The Un-Deserted Island proves to be quite a fun point-and-click puzzle game that takes you through the story chapters. The graphics and using the virtual items in your survival bag are fun, and most of the puzzles are self-contained with the right level of challenge. You might be able to escape this one, but just be careful where you fall asleep the next time. (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Mobile Escapes for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #JoelynAlexandra #AtHomeGames #PointNClick #MobileEscapes #Adventure #Canada #Mission

Photos above are property of Mobile Escapes Company: Mobile Escapes Country: Canada 🇨🇦 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Adventure, Mission Size of Team: Up to 20 ppl (Recommend 2-5ppl) Time: 60 Minutes Price: $14.99/pp Game: The Prestigious Booking Date Played: August 21, 2021 Difficulty (based on 6 players): 3/10 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 You and your group have booked a getaway cottage on "Winbnb". This cottage is full of riddles and puzzles. Your goal is to get into the "Winner's Room" in order to reveal the big prize! Video above is property of Mobile Escapes Game: The Cyber Drop Date Played: September 14, 2021 Difficulty (based on 5 players): 4/10 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 The SSS Academy is recruiting and only the best agents can be hired. Can you complete all the missions in the classroom and proof your worthiness to the Academy? Photo above is property of Mobile Escapes 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Although there's no game masters (you can request one if you need one), you'll still need to book a time slot to play the game. The link will only be active for 5 hours from your scheduled time so make sure your group is on time. Once you've received the link, designate one player to be the team captain. The rest of the teammates should click the "participant link". Coordinate the "start" of the game together as each player will need to enter their own codes as the game is not synced. The hint option is only available with the team captain. If you choose to use a hint, 1 minute will be deducted as penalty. The point-n-click platform was quite easy to use. There's never a time when we had to venture outside of the game's platform. You'll be able to examine imagines by enlarging them a magnifying glass, watch videos, open locks, and sometimes even listen to audio clues. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The company has a 45 minute and a 60 minute version of the games. If you want the easier version, it'll give you slight nudges on what to do next with highlights on certain objects or locks. We played The Prestigious Booking not knowing that the game was programed as a 45 minute game. With 6 enthusiast who's played hundreds of games, we finished in 18 minutes and 13 seconds with no hints. Most of the puzzles involved searching for items and associating them to the right locks. We took our time with The Cyber Drop and read through the story line as whenever we solved a puzzle, a short storyline would populate to give us the next task. The puzzles were slightly harder in this game which involved decoding, observation and minor Math. There were also a few cool gadgets that we were able to use in the interface that made the game feel escape room like. We finished this room in 34 minutes without a hint. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Our favorite of the two was The Cyber Drop as it stuck to the storyline and utilized puzzles that made sense in what agents would do in real life situations. Mobile Escapes audience is definitely geared towards corporate bookings and beginners. Although we had fun in both games, it felt too easy and short for us to justify the cost especially being that it's per person. As enthusiasts, we would love to see the platform being utilized in a longer game with harder puzzles in the future! (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Mobile Escapes for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #PointNClick #MobileEscapes #Adventure #Canada #Mission

Above photo is property of DADs Casino Party Company: DADs Casino Party Games: SPACE LOCK: Trip to Terra 8 Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Sci-Fi Date Played: September 1, 2021 Difficulty (based on 4 players): 4/10 Size of Team: 1-6 people (Recommended Max 4 Players) Time: Unlimited (Suggested 60-90 Mins.) Price: $14.95/Team 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Earth has been spoiled from years of human waste and space debris. We had to travel to Terra8 to start over and learn from our mistakes. A radiation mutation forces you to make quick choices to survive. Will you make it to Terra8, save your crew and complete your mission? Above video is property of DADs Casino Party 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 This is a self guided digital game to play with your friends, the platform has a built in video function which allows you to see and talk to each other on the same screen as the game takes place. You have 72 hours from purchase to start your game Once you begin you have 48 to complete the mission and the game saves your place if you need to come back to it later. When the game starts, you and your team are transferred onto a spaceship. You examine the dock by clicking on items, finding tools and information. One of your first task is to clear the surroundings of space debris using your mouse button. There’s enough debris for the entire team to help. I found it to be a fun start to the game and teamwork. Trip to Terra8 is played on the Telescape platform with it’s own custom made inventory system and holographic projections. Wow! You start at the dock and by solving tasks and puzzles you progress through the ship room by room. Above photos are properties of DADs Casino Party 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The puzzles were fun but quite easy if you’ve played similar types of point-n-click games before. One was significantly harder than the rest of the puzzles and that one kind of caught us off guard. There were something for everyone. You'll encounter a little bit of Math, a little bit of construction and the scientist of our team really appreciated an old school DNA sequencing method puzzle! There was a little bit of search and find but not a lot, it was mostly obvious what you were working on and what items you would need to solve the puzzles. One puzzle was hard to be worked on together as a team so one person did most of the maneuvering while the rest watched them in action. There were other times when 2 would collaborate together but we were hoping to see some puzzles that would've utilized all 4 of our collaborations. Our favourite puzzle involved interpreting an alien language and we had a lot of fun trying to explain the different things to each other over zoom. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 The puzzles were pretty straightforward but if you'll probably also encounter a few surprises. I thought that the game could benefit from pushing a bit harder on the storyline and matching the objectives to it. At times it felt like the puzzles were introduced randomly and didn’t necessarily help bring the story forward. They were mainly to make the game fun and entertaining like a video game. But all in all, playing Trip to Terra 8 was a fun way for our team to hang out together on a Wednesday night! (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank DADs Casino Party for comping our tickets for this game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #HannaNyberg #AtHomeGames #PointNClick #DADsCasinoParty #SciFi #Space #Telescape #USA

Photos above are property of DADs Casino Party Company: DADs Casino Party Games: Holiday Dinner Rush Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Adventure, Family Date Played: September 15, 2021 Difficulty (based on 4 players): 5/10 Size of Team: Up to 6 Logins (Recommend 3-4 Players) Time: 60 Minutes (Game link expires 72 hours after purchase) Price: $4.95/Game 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 You and your siblings woke up late! You have little time to get everything on your mom's list ready before family arrives! Can you get everything done before the first guest arrives? Video above is property of DADs Casino Party 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Holiday Dinner Rush is a point and click game played in Telescape. Upon receiving the link, you and your members can log into the same link to start the game. There is a video/chat function embedded inside Telescape as well, so you do not need to set up a separate Zoom/Video Call with your team. While inside the game, any items that you can pick up will be stored inside an inventory system. This inventory, along with other functions such as hints, music option (12 to choose from!) etc. are all stored inside a handphone. If you drag your view towards the floor you'll be able to access the phone which is pretty convenient. There is even a mini video game inside the phone for teammates not in to puzzle solving. However our team did not try out this mini game as we were all puzzle hungry enthusiasts, trying to be the first ones to solve the puzzles. The scene is set inside an apartment, and boy, this apartment is huge! There are so many items you can interact with and many things that require search and find. We recommend splitting the team up to explore the space. The timer will count down and you have only 60 minutes to finish the game so if you want to see the happy ending, make sure to use hints when needed as there's no penalty for using them. If time does runs out, you'll get a alternative ending. Photos above are property of DADs Casino Party 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 Most of the puzzles are intuitive and straightforward. The tricky part is just knowing where to get the information needed to solve the puzzle because, as mentioned, there are things literally everywhere in the humongous house. There is a particular puzzle that I really liked. It's easy to miss but once you can see it, it really stood out as one of the most innovative puzzles I have seen. However, there was another puzzle that relies on a logical leap. There were different ways to interpret the puzzle, hence, it would be better if the wording was phrased properly so that players know what is expected of them exactly (The creator has advised us that he'll make adjustments to this puzzle). Also, as per the storyline, we are basically completing tasks before our guest arrives, so, it might be good to follow the in-game 'list of things to be done'. We had one issue in that we tried an answer, but nothing happened. After contacting the company, we were told to complete other tasks first or else even with the right answer, it'll not activate the trigger. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Overall, Holiday Dinner Rush is a family friendly game targeted more for beginners. The only time consuming part is searching the house for clues. Given all the clues at once, the puzzles themselves were on the easier side, except for 1 gem mentioned above. It also helps that while playing the game, there will be relaxing music playing in the background (you can switch it off if you want), but it really plays into the theme of this game and helps you relax and not get too stressed while solving the puzzles. For the price, this is a great way to enjoy an evening on your own if you prefer solo player games or as a group! The theme is also really great for holiday times to play with family! (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank DADs Casino Party for comping our tickets for this game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #MelvinLim #AtHomeGames #PointNClick #DADsCasinoParty #Adventure #Telescape #USA #FamilyFriendly

The above photo is property of Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape The Yeti Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Adventure, Mystery Date Played: August 17, 2021 Difficulty (based on 3 players): 5/10 Size of Team: 1-6 Players (Recommended) Time: Expires 72 Hours after game begins Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 It was the year 1952. Seven members had left for an expedition on Mount Everest and never returned. One of them was your father. In recent years, our agency developed a technology that can send you back in time. Maybe you can find out what had happened to the team? Was it really the mysterious Yeti or was something else entirely? The above video is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 This is a point-n-click game build using the Telescape system. When your entire team joins into the interface, one person will press the "start" button. The game will be synced so whatever one player does, it'll reflect in every player's interface. We really enjoyed the cinematic video at the beginning and the end as it gave us an overview of the storyline. Hotspots were installed on objects on high-res images. Lock symbols means that you can click on them to further examine the items. Some had clues on it and others told us how many digits or letters we would need in order to open the lock. Some items were also interactive where we would be able to rotate, piece together or simply place in the right position. After the intro video, you'll also get a quick tutorial on game play. If you get stuck, there's a hint system that's build into the game. The above photos are properties of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 There were a good amount of areas that we're able to explore in the interface. The puzzles were spread out in these areas. At times, we would have to return from one area to another. It felt very escape room like. This gave our players a chance to "divide and conquer" and each of us had a chance to solve some puzzles on our own. Some puzzles were really creative and connected the Mount Everest environment with some tools that you might see on an expedition. One of the puzzles utilized the yeti and that was our favorite. It was a multi-step puzzle that we had to collaborate as a team. Having good communication is very important for these types of games so make sure to always keep your team updated on your progress. There were some audio components in the game as well so it's best if you're able to wear headphones for this game. The puzzles were not too difficult for enthusiast but for new players you might have to get use to the "combo" method and also where to enter the combo words. For instance if you saw a "key" and a "locked door", you'll need to combine the words in the input box on the top left area in order for something to "open". This was a great method to not giveaway answers where players might be able to just make a guess. You'll actually need to remember what you've seen before and think about what items you can use as a pair. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Since Escape The Crate's bread and butter is box subscription games, we weren't sure how they will design a digital game. We were really pleased with the quality of the graphics, interface utilization and puzzles. The added background music and alert sounds whenever a player did something paired nicely with the team (except one of our players jumped every time when an alert sound happened haha). As enthusiasts, we finished the game in 34 minutes time but were truly entertained the entire time. This game definitely left us wanting more digital experiences from Escape The Crate. We do have a little "insider news" for you. The creator said that they'll be making more of them! For the game boxes that they will not or cannot bring back as physical boxes, they'll be making them into digital games instead! Helen B. This Telescape based experience was a new venture for this company I believe - and they have really gone all out to provide an entertaining storyline, animated videos and exciting graphics! The gameplay follows as you explore a frozen tundra looking for some lost expedition members, can you interpret their research and help save them?! The game uses video to introduce the scenario and give you very good, detailed instructions which were appreciated. The first few scenes are an orientation exercise which allow you to get used to the interface, inventory and a few basic puzzles. One of these told us to turn on the lights, but I'm not sure we ever actually did that, amongst any of our tasks! The telescape environment is well used, with various scenes to move between. I often berate this type of game though because one person can be off finding items and solving puzzles and you really have to communicate, as if you come across the same puzzle it's often hard to know if it has already been solved. After certain solves/finds a video would auto play, meaning if you were in the middle of something it is a sudden shock. The sound chosen as a confirmation is also quite loud and harsh, and genuinely gave me a scare a few times! That said, the game was interesting, fun and some nice puzzles to tackle, one of which worked really well with three of us as we all had some different information from different locations to share to solve it. Some of the puzzles rely on audio, so make sure you have sound turned on. Some of the drag and drop style puzzles had very sensitive drop areas, meaning that they were a bit fiddly to get right - so if you think you have the right answer, just persevere! All in all a very good and entertaining game with a fun theme! Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape The Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #Team #Adventure #SciFi #EscapeTheCrate

Photo above has been provided by Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape the Spymistress Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Mystery Date Played: November 6, 2021 Difficulty (based on 6 players): 6.5/10 Size of Team: 1-6 Players (Recommended) Time: Expires 72 Hours after game begins Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 As part of a secret agency focused on maintaining the natural timeline, your job is to ensure everything happens as it is intended. Your new mission revolves around the infamous plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln; Word has reached your company that this plot is coming to fruition four years earlier than anticipated, which would have horrible consequences on the timeline. It appears there is a spy mistress involved and she should have the details you need to stop the attempt. Your task is to sneak into her house, uncover the details of the assassination without being caught, and stop the plot! Video above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 "Escape the Spymistress" is a point and click adventure using Telescape, which means you will be using a shared interface with your team members. It also means if one person solves a puzzle, it will progress everyone playing. There is a video introduction that is beautifully animated and a short tutorial to test out puzzling on Telescape before you dive into the real game, which is perfect for new puzzlers unfamiliar with Telescape. As you start your mission, there will be blue lock icons appearing in the rooms you are exploring that reveal items for further inspection, such as locks, documents, and artifacts. A cool feature added by Escape the Crate is a combining function to reveal clues. Certain items, upon closer inspection, will display a puzzle piece and a word. If you find another item that you believe may be connected and, also, has a puzzle piece and a word, you can type their words together into Telescape to combine them. There is a built-in hint system into the Telescape to aid your puzzling as you will not have a gamemaster while you play. In general, Telescape is well used within this game as you can really interact with components in the game through moving theming, combining them, or rotating them. I will note the blue lock icons will not go away once you finish with the puzzle it needed so make sure you keep track of what you solve so you don’t become lost. Photos above have been provided by Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 This game had different rooms to explore that cater to different puzzling types and you will need to move back and forth between them. As such, this game definitely benefits from a divide and conquer method as you solve logic puzzles, find hidden clues, identify patterns, and decode messages. I enjoyed how Telescape provided fun reactions whether it involved triggering an event with a solution or the simple element of watching items react to your mouse hovering, pressing, and moving things around. As a wholly digital game, the puzzles suit the structure and provide differing levels on interaction for all players. This game is best for group work as it encourages a great deal of communication where players need to use different items in different rooms to solve puzzles. If you do enjoy playing solo, have a phone or a way to take notes are you move around so you aren’t stuck bounding between screens too much. More experienced players will find the puzzles straightforward and easy to follow, but just make sure you are giving the rooms a good once over as some pieces of the puzzles can easily be overlooked. For new players, the hint system is well situated to assist you if you’re struggling. Photo above was provided by Escape The Crate 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 "Escape the Spymistress" is a light and fun collaborative escape adventure for friends and family looking to play games from afar. There are enough puzzles and diversity in it to cater to all players and the light story and theme builds a level of engagement found in traditional escape rooms. I think this new model of digitizing Escape the Crate retired boxes is a brilliant way to give players more puzzling at an affordable price, without committing to a subscription. If you enjoy spy missions, digital games, and collaboration then this is a great game. If spy missions aren’t your thing, you can also check out their other digital game, Escape the Yeti! Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape The Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #Mystery #EscapeTheCrate

Photo above is property of Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape the Colosseum Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: History Date Played: August 16, 2022 Difficulty (based on 4 players): 6/10 Size of Team: 1-4 Players Time: Unlimited Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 After discovering an object from the future has ended up as a prize in Ancient Rome’s Colosseum, you know you need to stop any gladiator from winning this prize, as it could change the foundations of our world as we know it. Your agency has tasked you to enter the Colosseum as a gladiator and win the competition. Sounds easy, right? Except for the dark caverns, lions, and the fight to the death part of a dueling... Time to screw your courage to the sticking place and take up the challenge! The world depends on you! Video above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 "Escape the Colosseum" is a point and click adventure using Telescape, much like the previous digitized escape games made by Escape the Crate. This is a “re-imagining” of their third box (June/July 2017) so if you have played any of their early physical games this might seem similar but they did add some surprises. The game begins with a well made introduction video and tutorial that helps you get a better sense of the story and what you need to do. Blue lock icons will be visible in Telescape to let you know which items need a number or letter code while a puzzle piece icon will let you know that word associated with the icon (and the item in the same space) need to be combined to reveal clues and answers, which is a neat feature I enjoy seeing in these games. There is a built-in hint system into the Telescape to aid your puzzling as you will not have a gamemaster while you play. Photo above is property of Escape the Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 "Escape the Colosseum" is puzzling generally relies on you uncovering number and letter codes to open jars, chests, and ultimately fighting your way through duels. I liked the variety of the puzzles but I will say for new players, it may seem a bit overwhelming when you start. Most of the puzzles benefit from dividing and conquering as having multiple players fiddling with the same puzzle on Telescape can create errors. The puzzles themselves involve pattern recognition, cipher codes, logic, and tracking but all of it is self-contained within the game so I never felt confused - the clues I needed were usually in a different room. This game definitely works for groups who enjoy talking about the puzzles while they play so I encourage you to share what you uncover as what you see in one room may be the clue someone needs in another. If you are playing solo, either write notes or take photos so you aren’t jumping between rooms too much. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 "Escape the Colosseum" is a good online escape experience for players looking to share, explore, and work together even while apart. There is a good length to the experience and plenty to keep you going that is scaffolded and laid out well as you move throughout the adventure. The story is light but if you’re all about the puzzles, I feel this does a great job feeding the puzzle fix. If you are interested in hearing more about their other digitized escape rooms, check out our review for Escape the Yeti and Escape the Spymistress! Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape the Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #JillianRaymond #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #History #EscapeTheCrate

Photo above is property of Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape the Queen Anne's Revenge Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Pirate Date Played: August 16, 2022 Difficulty (based on 5 players): 6/10 Size of Team: 1-4 Players Time: Unlimited Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 You are a member of EMIT (Emergency Mediation in Time), an institution established to protect history from being disrupted due to time travel. Your colleague Oscar was chasing after an evil scientist Mr. X who was planning something dastardly on a pirate ship named "The Queen Anne’s Revenge" in 1718 to change the history of the world. However, you found out that Oscar was captured by the captain of the ship, Blackbeard! While the pirates are on the island for a night out, you must save Oscar before the pirates return, find out Mr. X’s plan, and prevent it from happening! Can you accomplish everything within 60 minutes? Video above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 This game is an online escape version of their table-top game released in 2017 provided on Telescape. Most of the puzzles are the same as the box version. To get started, you just need to access the site given to play the game. Hints are also included within the game if needed. When you need to communicate with your teammate, you need your own communication tools like Zoom or others. I loved that there was a trial section before the actual game started. Since this game did not have a host, it was a fantastic way for us to figure out how to play before the clock started. How to use the item was a little bit unclear in the beginning. Although there were not many items that we had to use during the game, I thought it might be nicer to have an inventory system separately. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 First of all, the pirate-themed puzzle was fun. There was a variety of puzzles from simple intuitive ones to deduction and logic ones. Once we gathered information about each puzzle and sorted it out, it wasn't that complicated. It was satisfying that I was able to see the link between each piece of information. It might be easy for those who are experts, but I believe it is just right in terms of difficulty for most people. I also really enjoyed the images they used to create the pirate ship environment. Those pictures made me feel as if I was on the ship. I enjoyed exploring the deck and inside the ship. I loved the unique idea of the story to be a timeline-keeping agent to save both a colleague who was captured by Blackbeard and saving the world by stopping Mr. X’s plan. It was great that even the trial section was part of the story. I appreciated how the game moved forward by Oscar revealing new information each time we solved a puzzle. It helped us to figure out the direction we needed to go next. Yet, at some point, I felt that the ideas of pirate-theme and saving the world from Mr. X lacked coherency a little bit somehow. Most of the puzzles were pirate-themed, which I enjoyed, but I wish there were a little bit more traces of Mr. X somewhere along the way. Plus, I thought it would be better to explain the detail of the EMIT business a little bit more on the webpage describing the game. Then, people who have never played this company’s game before might enjoy this unique and exciting situation more. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 "Escape the Queen Anne's Revenge" was an exciting online escape game with a unique story and fun pirate-themed puzzles. This game is perfect for a fun game night with family and friends, and I recommend it, especially for those who love an adventure, puzzle, or pirate-themed game. So, if you are interested in this adventure, gather your team and get ready to time travel to this old pirate ship to save Oscar and the world! Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape the Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #ChikakoOmura #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #Pirate #EscapeTheCrate

Photo above is property of Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape the Trials of Houdini Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Magician Date Played: September 16, 2022 Difficulty (based on 2 players): 6/10 Size of Team: 1-4 Players Time: Unlimited Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Prognosticator Madame Astrella claims to know things. But the only way she’ll tell you what you want to know is if you help her out of her current predicament. Harry Houdini — yes, the world-famous magician and escape artist — is hiding incriminating evidence that Madame Astrella’s knowledge might not be the fruit of genuine spiritual gifts. You must explore Coney Island and retrieve the files before Houdini uses them to expose Madame Astrella as a fake! Are you up for a battle of wits with Houdini? Video above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Well known for their subscription boxes, Escape the Crate also offers virtual games for online play. They describe "Escape the Trials of Houdini" as “an online reimagining of our 4th game.” The physical version of the game was retired last year, but the experience lives on in digital form with some new twists. The game begins with a polished video that sets up the story and captures the mysterious vibe of its Coney Island setting. The game is built using the Telescape platform. Each team member can click around independently to explore the scenes. When one team member solves a puzzle, the game will proceed for all players. The interface is clear and easy to navigate. As your team collects Items and gains access to new locations, they appear on the left side of the screen for easy access. Locks and puzzle elements are clearly marked on the screen with blue lock icons. There are clear instructions to get you started, and hints are always available to let you know what to do next if you ever get stuck. Many of the puzzles are solved by finding a combination lock on screen and entering the correct combination, but there are also jigsaw puzzle pieces to be found throughout the game. Each piece contains a word, and when you find two words that go together you can type the phrase in to advance the game. There is a one-hour countdown clock, but if you haven’t yet escaped you can continue playing after the countdown ends. Photos above are property of ESCAPETHEROOMers 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The structure of the game lets each player explore on their own, but also encourages cooperative team play with players needing to share information from different screens, e.g., one player can read aloud a note from Houdini containing key clues while another looks at the puzzle and another enters the code into the combination lock. The assortment of puzzle types and degree of complexity mirrors the fun of a traditional escape room experience. The storyline, while lightweight, provides theming that carries through nicely to the puzzles. The amusement park / magic theme is reflected in the playing cards, ferris wheel, etc. that appear in the puzzle. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Escape the Crate’s virtual games are ideal for remote family or friends who want to meet up online for some puzzling fun. The clear format makes them easy to jump into, and there is enough going on to keep a small team engaged. Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape the Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #JenMcphilimy #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #Magician #EscapeTheCrate

Photo above is property of Escape The Crate Company: Escape The Crate Game: Escape the Reindeer Games Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Holiday Date Played: November 6, 2022 Difficulty (based on 3 players): 3/10 Size of Team: 1-4 Players Time: Unlimited Price: $19.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Twas the night before Christmas and all through the North Pole, not a creature was stirring, not even...a reindeer? It is only one hour until the clocks turn midnight and Santa needs to deliver presents to the good little boys and girls around the world. The jolly old fellow has lost all nine of his reindeer and won’t be able to start his journey without them. It is up to your team to find all of the reindeer and arrange them in his sled to save Christmas. Video above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 The game is played over telescape and uses the program to its full potential. There are videos, clickable objects and locks aplenty. Navigate in between scenes with a sidebar on the left side of your screen. When there are houses/doors to enter, they will overlay in front of the screen to show that you have ventured inside. The game has a great north pole feel that is sure to get any little ones, and little ones at heart, excited for the holidays. Santa will be narrating for most of the game so it is recommended that each player has headphones on so as to not cause feedback if playing fully remotely. Escape the Crate has designed this to be an experience for the whole family. There are more simpler puzzles in this game than in some others offered by them. This is not a kids only game though, some of the puzzles will still take some clever sleuthing to deduct the final answer. Photo above is property of Escape The Crate 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 The puzzles in this game are observational biased as well as logically intuitive. Expect to find details hidden throughout the north pole on how each lock and puzzle is solved. There are also a lot of hidden references that put the whole family in the Christmas spirit. As advertised, this is a family friendly game and the puzzles reflect that in how they are solved. They are straightforward in the fact that most people will understand the logic in how they are solved but some of them do take a bit of time and would best be completed with teamwork to deduce the solutions quickly. Photos above are property of Escape The Crate 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 Reindeer Games is a fun Christmas game put together to appeal to family and friends alike. The game is on the simpler side so as to get the whole family involved in an escape room experience. The puzzles logically make sense and four experienced puzzlers had no issues with crafting out the solutions. The theme and story are well put together and having Santa narrate to the group is a great way to keep everyone engaged and immerse each player in the game. If you are looking for a game to play during this holiday season, Reindeer games is one game you won’t want to be left out of. Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of their game: (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape the Crate for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #MikeSchnurr #AtHomeGames #DigitalGame #PointnClick #Telescape #USA #Holiday #EscapeTheCrate

Photos above provided by Escape SC Company: Escape SC Game: Science Splice Country: USA 🇺🇸 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Sci-Fi, Science Date Played: June 16, 2021 Difficulty (based on 4 players): 5/10 Size of Team: 2-6 Players Time: 60 Minutes Price: $5.00/ Team 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Today is your first day at the science lab as an intern. Of course you had to mess things up and now you've got yourself split into two! Can you use the power of science to put yourself back together? 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 Once you purchase the game, you'll receive a Telescape link. Assemble your team over a video conferencing platform like Zoom, Jitsi, etc,,,Since you'll need at least 2 people in order to play this game (as you'll be split into two groups), it's best to gather an even amount of players. We played the game as a group of 4 ( 2 guys vs 2 girls) and that seems to be the magic number. This is not a real escape room translated to online so all the images were digitally designed. They felt like pretty hand drawn images. I really enjoyed the colorful and witty graphics. Initially we thought it was going to be a competitive game so we're all fired up ready to go but soon we discovered that it's actually a cooperative type of game. There were things that we're able to see that the guys side needed and vise versa. Occasionally we also had to work together as a complete team. We did feel like the left brain had more things that they were able to interact with than the right brain. But without us giving clues and directions to the left side, they still wouldn't be able to solve those puzzles. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 A good amount of the puzzles was finding information and relaying the message. It literally felt like your brain was split in half and one side doesn't remember anything so it was asking for the other side for help. Escape SC was able to use clever ways to design the puzzles and implement them into Telescape for the players to feel the theme of this game. The puzzles were not too difficult when we finally STARTED the game (just a minor hint, sometimes it's worth breaking the rules for once!). There were definitely a few moments in the game we laughed at our silly decisions. The choice option towards the end of the game was the highlight of this game for me. Right away you could sense some evil plotting from the other side. I really appreciated the fact that the creators made the other choice videos available to us after the game was completed. I would've totally been bothered with not knowing the "what if" endings if I had chosen the other choices. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 This game design is such a cool way to use Telescape. We haven't seen anything like this on the market yet. This game was designed by a group of USC students and I'm truly impressed by their skills in game and puzzle making as enthusiasts. The only complain I have is that it felt too short. We would love to see a longer version of the same concept in the future! 𝔼𝕊ℂ𝔸ℙ𝔼𝕋ℍ𝔼ℝ𝕆𝕆𝕄𝕖𝕣𝕤 ℙ𝕒𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕟❜𝕤 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 Helen B. Oh my this was a fun one! Made by a group of students at the University of Southern California, we weren't sure what to expect, but oh my it was hilarious. The storyline is fun, and despite being given strict instructions not to do something, you go do it, and end up in a pickle because of it. Well, you were warned! You then choose to play on one of two teams. For this reason the game needs at least 2 players so you can communicate, as the game cleverly splits what you see. At first it appears you both see the same, but the puzzles are dependent on slight differences in the "room" and the items you have. Therefore this is a game about communication and working as a team with different information. I felt that on our side of the game, we had less to do physically, it was more about providing information, as our opposite number seemed to making a lot more things happen, but there was a nice logical flow to the puzzles, even if some of them were a little crudely implemented and not always accurate! The graphics aren't top-notch, but very humorous, as is the video that appears now and then. The puzzles are mainly themed around doing things in a lab, so expect mixing, weighing and chemical elements! There's a lovely break in the middle though where you can have some fun with clothing (I'll not spoil it!) and the decisions and actions you take in the game lead to one of multiple endings. At the end, you get to play the other endings, including a top-secret ending that you won't believe!! Brilliant fun for not too much money. Kudos to the team that made this fun little game - I bet they had as much fun making it as we did playing it. (If you do decide to try this experience, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank Escape SC for providing us with a sample of the game. Although complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #CiciCao #AtHomeGames #EscapeRooms #EscapeSC #ScienceSplice #DigitalEscapeGame #OnlinePuzzleGames #Scifi #Adventure #Fun #Puzzle #Solve

Photo above is property of E-Scape Rooms Company: E-Scape Rooms Game: The Alp Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Language: English Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻 Genre: Mystery Date Played: 4/27/2021 Difficulty (based on 6 players): 6/10 Size of Team: 2-12 Players (Recommended Age 13+) Time: Unlimited (Suggested 60-120 Mins) Price: £14.99 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 It all started when he bought a fixer upper near the river. His wife began to have nightmares and eventually passed away...Could it have anything to do with the Alp? You'll need to hurry. It's almost nightfall again... 🆃🅷🅴 🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅿🅻🅰🆈 This is a well polished digital point-n-click game. The intro video felt like a real horror film with a professional voice actor. It bought chills down our spines even before the game started. If you wanted the creepy atmosphere throughout, I would suggest keeping the background music on. This is a synced game so once a player unlocks or collects something, it'll reflect in the rest of the player's interface. The 3D imagery made the scenes looked so real that at times I had to turn around and check if anything behind me (but then again I'm a scaredy-cat). It was nice to be able to connect the eerie scenes to the narrative as we explored the abandoned house. I rarely see digital game designers try to incorporate a complete narrative into their game. 🆃🅷🅴 🅿🆄🆉🆉🅻🅴🆂 Our team was really happy with the puzzles in this game. They were challenging but well thought out to connect with the theme. The body parts and old kids toys were "must haves" in a horror movie. The game designers were able to utilize these props in a freaky but clever way. I'm surprised at the amount of Math we had to do in this game but good thing we had a few "human calculators" that night. One multi-step puzzle got us stuck for awhile but eventually we were able to figure it out and it definitely gave us that satisfying "aha" moment. 🅲🅻🅾🆂🅸🅽🅶 🆃🅷🅾🆄🅶🅷🆃🆂 It's pretty difficult to implement horror elements in a digital game. E-Scape Rooms did a great job giving us a complete package with The Alp game. From sound to narrative to puzzles, we were fully immersed into the game for an hour. And what good movie doesn't have a twist in the end? Want to know what it is? I guess you'll have to play the game to find out! 😈 (If you do decide to try this game, give us a shoutout or tag us on social media so we know you heard it from "ESCAPETHEROOMers"!) Disclosure: We thank E-Escape Rooms for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever. #ESCAPETHEROOMers #AtHomeGames #EscapeRooms #EScapeRooms #TheAlp #EscapeTheNightmare #OnlineEscapeRoom #DigitalEscapeGame #horror #Survival #eerie #scary