Category Archives: Berlin

Final Escape: The Steampunk Puppeteer

Berlin, Nov 2017

The curious backstory for this game involves a puppeteer who finds a magical talking wooden puppet, who helps him make his fortune, but then one night runs off with all the money. To which the puppeteer’s response is to make a replacement puppet… f… (more)

Final Escape: Prison Break

Berlin, Nov 2017

There is a limit to how many ways one can plausibly break out of prison. More than pretty much any of the other common escape game scenarios, it’s constrained in the types of object and furniture that can plausibly be used for puzzles without looking… (more)

Final Escape: Robot Paranoia

Berlin, Nov 2017

Robot Paranoia is a sci-fi game set in a future dystopia where humans have mostly been eliminated by robots, where you have an hour to get out of the robot-controlled area before you’re caught.

The decor is more Bladerunner than Star Trek, a crumbli… (more)

Claustrophobia: Pirate Hut

Berlin, Nov 2017

Caught in a storm on an island in the Caribbean, you seek shelter in an old hut… only to find that it’s haunted by the spirit of an old pirate, who will now keep you trapped forever unless you can find a way to escape. That’s the setup for the thir… (more)

Claustrophobia: Museum of Contemporary Art

Berlin, Nov 2017

Museum of Contemporary Art is a straightforward heist game, but one that uses its museum setting to build a series of puzzles around modern art pieces, most of which are lightly veiled versions of actual famous pieces. Some of the clues left for you … (more)

Claustrophobia: Vault 13

Berlin, Nov 2017

Anyone who’s spent enough time playing the right computer games will immediately recognise the name of this game as a reference to the Fallout series, and Vault 13 follows the original starting premise of those games: you survived a nuclear apocalyps… (more)