Category Archives: Online

Escape Casa Loma: Station M

Online, Jan 2020

This venue appears to have a remarkable location – Casa Loma is a rather splendid Toronto mansion used as a location in a dozen different movies, and it’d be quite a place to go play an escape game. Playing remotely via avatar meant we missed out on … (more)

Esc The Game: Esc From Sub TXI

Online, Dec 2020

When you’re onto a good thing, do more of it – which seems to be the philosophy with this follow-up game from Esc The Game. Where their first had you escaping prison, in this one you’re on a submarine trying to stop a terrorist attack. And since it’s… (more)

Lockdown Paphos: Space Station

Online, Jan 2020

Those using the new genres of remote play escape rooms to check off as many different countries as possible will have been happy to see Lockdown Paphos launch an avatar game, thereby adding Cyprus to their potential target list. They’ve been establis… (more)

Emergency Exit Escape Rooms: The Beast

Online, Nov 2020

Emergency Exit’s first remote play game was an excellent adaptation of their existing Exorcist game. Their sequel, The Beast, is adapted from a combination of two physical rooms (Conjure and Poltergeist), and while I haven’t played those my im… (more)

Emergency Exit Escape Rooms: Virtual Exorcist

Online, Nov 2020

Venues are still working out the best way to convert physical games to remote play. For an example of how to do it well, it’s worth looking at E-Exit’s games. Many good remote games still leave me with the impression of being an imperfect substitute … (more)

Red Lantern Escape Rooms: The Hardin House Mystery

Online, Oct 2020

Red Lantern are an escape room venue in California, and The Hardin House Mystery is their online game. This is a hosted virtual game which uses mostly static photos to illustrate your surroundings; you tell your host what you wish to look at and do, … (more)

Mind Trap Escape Room Murrieta: Operation Nightwalker

Online, Oct 2020

Mind Trap’s Temecula branch have been running two very highly rated avatar games, and their Murrieta venue seems to have decided to get in on the action. Operation Nightwalker is a zombie game with a WW2 setting, including use of German language thro… (more)

Evadere: A Second Chance

Online, Oct 2020

Evadere is a U.K.-based company offering online digital escape games specifically, with two games available at time of writing and a third under development. I tried A Second Chance, in which you are a detective hours away from retirement (always a p… (more)

Headlock Escape Rooms: The Wizard’s Apothecary

Online, Sep 2020

Headlock is an escape room company newly arrived in Norwich, and given the general COVID-19 uncertainty, have decided to launch with remote play-from-home games rather than in-person ones for now. Of their two games, both use a livestream but Wizard’… (more)

Ezkapaz: The Cadavera Case

Online, Aug 2020

When I played, Ezkapaz had only just started offering remote games, and were struggling with serious tech issues in their online interface. It’s tricky to judge how much to take problems like that into account in a review – I imagine they’ll find way… (more)