Category Archives: Room in a box

Escape Room The Game: Prison Break

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

Escape Room The Game is one of the higher profile boxed escape games available, and comes as a boxed set of four scenarios plus a battery-operated decoder device. Although the four games can only be purchased as a single pack, I’m reviewing each scen… (more)

Lock Paper Scissors: Rebel Revolt

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

Also (or previously?) known as Heist Party, Lock Paper Scissors appears to be an enthusiastic one-man operation providing escape room experiences as print-and-play downloads.

I’m reviewing this as a room-in-a-box game, but note that the intention is… (more)

Unlock!: The Elite

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Elite is a free print-and-play game available as a demo of the Unlock! system. As such, you’re probably reading this either because you want to know whether it’s worth the minimal cost and effort to print off a copy, or because you’ve played The … (more)

Unlock!: The Island of Doctor Goorse

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Unlock! games continue to surprise and impress me at how much they manage to do purely with a deck of cards. First they managed to re-introduce search as a major part of the game (though there’s much less of that here than in the first two), and … (more)

Unlock!: The Formula

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the Squeek and Sausage review for a general overview of the Unlock! game system. For those purchasing all three games as a single box, The Formula is the first game… (more)

Exit: The Pharaoh’s Tomb

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the review of Exit’s Abandoned Cabin game for more information on the base game mechanism. Pharaoh’s Tomb is the third and last (for now) game available in the series,… (more)

Exit: The Secret Lab

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the review of Exit’s Abandoned Cabin game for more information on the base game mechanism – Secret Lab follows the same structure very closely. There is again a code w… (more)

Unlock!: Squeek and Sausage

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Unlock! series of play-at-home escape games from Space Cowboys is sold in Europe as a single box of three games, but in the US as three separate games. While all share the same game system, each of the three has a different author and illustrator… (more)

Exit: The Abandoned Cabin

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Exit range of boxed escape games by KOSMOS were previously only available in German, and have finally been released for English audiences.

Like the ThinkFun games, the game uses a code-wheel mechanism. Each puzzle in the game is marked with a sy… (more)

ThinkFun Escape The Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2017

Stargazer’s Manor is the second ThinkFun boxed escape room we played, but is the first one they released, since in a fit of anarchic rebellion we decided to play them in reverse order.

Many of the comments on their other game apply here too, of cour… (more)