Category Archives: Online

Claustrophobia Moscow: A Stir In Springfield

Online, May 2020

The Moscow escaping scene has quite a reputation, and is dominated by one company above all: Claustrophobia. And while they have branches elsewhere in Europe (though fewer than they once did), a chance to sample one of their home city games was an op… (more)

Hour Glass Escape Room: The Queen’s Stolen Jewels

Online, May 2020

In the many new genres of online escape rooms springing up, the category variously referred to as ‘audio-led’, ‘simulated’ or ‘GM-led’ is essentially a remote livestream game without an actual room. Hour Glass’s game was the first such I’d tried, and… (more)

The Escape Game: Gold Rush

Online, May 2020

There may be gold in them thar hills, but in this Gold Rush you’re not panning in any rivers, you’re searching for a conveniently pre-prospected stash of gold hidden somewhere in a mountain shack – with the usual hour in which to find it before the m… (more)

Sky High Escape Room: Casino Mortale

Online, May 2020

Casino Mortale is a story-driven game, and that’s made clear from some time before your actual booking slot, thanks to in-character emails and other details provided to introduce the story and its characters. It’s a somewhat convoluted story, where t… (more)

LogicLocks: Amsterdam Catacombs

Online, May 2020

Logic Locks’ Catacombs is – in its original physical form – a masterpiece of a game, a slice of gothic horror that succeeds on multiple levels as immersive theatre, an escape room and a haunt maze. And of course it takes place in a genuine undergroun… (more)

Project Avatar

Online, Jun 2020

There are now quite a number of avatar-based remote play games available around the world. Project Avatar is not like the others. For a start, this isn’t an existing escape room adapted for play over the internet; it’s constructed as a new experience… (more)

Trapt Melbourne: Alchemy At Home

Online, May 2020

Reviewing remote play games is a curious shift where most of the factors that make a physical room good or not still apply, but where the gamemaster and the technology and the way they operate the game end up mattering as much or even more. Alchemy w… (more)

Brainstorm Escape Rooms: CSI

Online, May 2020

A caveat, here – I played this game when they’d fairly recently opened and were still experimenting with the remote play format. So it’s likely they’ll refine how the game works following further experimentation.

The name of the game might suggest a… (more)

Safarka: Dream Gallery

Online, May 2020

I really don’t know how to feel about Dream Gallery. It wilfully ignores conventions that I expect and rely on in escape rooms, from single use of items to use of outside knowledge, through various smaller things that are hard to describe without spo… (more)

Escape Works Denver: War Games Wired

Online, May 2020

As you might or might not have guessed from the name, Escape Works Denver’s first remote play game is inspired by the 80s Matthew Broderick movie involving a military computer at risk of triggering World War 3 – I don’t know if it’s intentional, but … (more)