Category Archives: Online

Fuzzy Logic Escape Room: Veterinarian’s Office

Online, May 2020

This was the first remote livestream escape room I tried, and so I waited awhile before attempting to write a review – with an entirely new format, inevitably a lot of your initial impressions reflect the format not the individual game, and it’s only… (more)

Elgin Escape: Murder Mansion

Online, Jun 2020

Elgin Escape’s online game takes you, an freshly-minted and enthusiastic detective, into a boarded up old mansion that was the site of a murder that’s gone unsolved by all previous attempts… which frankly suggests that previous detectives didn’t pu… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Stranglehold

Online, May 2020

Third in The Panic Room’s series of online CSI games, Stranglehold follows the well-trodden theme of tracking down a serial killer. Like the one before it, this is a game based around elimination: you have an initial list of suspects, who must be eli… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: The Mafia Murders

Online, May 2020

On starting the second play at home CSI game from The Panic Room, I assumed it would be very similar to the first – but no, or at least not exactly. The platform used to deliver the game is the same, of course – the same system of solve a puzzle, ent… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Grounded

Online, May 2020

First of The Panic Room’s several CSI games, and one of the first online games to be released after the lockdown, Grounded is a murder mystery on a plane: one of the passengers collapsed mid-flight, apparently due to foul play.

The game’s initial p… (more)

The Panic Room: My Dearest Emily

Online, May 2020

In between The Panic Room’s various CSI-themed online games, My Dearest Emily sticks out rather. In stark contrast to the usual escape room themes of peril and world-saving, it’s set in a lesser-known part of 19th Century US history, and tells a gent… (more)

Hysteria Escape Rooms: Project Blue Book

Online, May 2020

Project Bluebook is based around UFO investigations. Whereas in The Bank Job the puzzles followed the narrative sequence of a bank heist, Bluebook is a bit more abstract, though builds up to a denouement of sorts.

Bluebook uses the same Google Forms… (more)

Hysteria Escape Rooms: The Bank Job

Online, May 2020

Playing an escape game from home requires a little extra suspension of disbelief, when players are sitting in a familiar living room not a simulated bank vault. Some games deal with that by saying the players are ‘remote support’ or some such; The Ba… (more)

Crime Runners: Back To The Congressman

Online, May 2020

Not having (yet) played Crime Runners’ physical escape rooms, I don’t know the details of the story of which this online game is a continuation. That wasn’t a barrier to playing this, though it did make me quite curious to go and discover what the ea… (more)

Pentargo Escape Room: Pentargo Quarantine

Online, May 2020

Online escape games vary greatly in style. Some are essentially paper-based puzzles delivered digitally, others are more like puzzle-centric computer games. And some use a ‘realism’ style where the game isn’t presented as a set of puzzles, but as a r… (more)