Category Archives: Room in a box

Exit: The Polar Station

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2017

The remarkably prolific Exit series of play at home escape games are now up to ten games in their native German, and the second batch of three are now available in English. They follow closely the format established by the previous boxes, with a few … (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 5: Escape the Lost Colony

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2017

A small disappointment with the Crate series has always been that despite the name they actually arrive as a plain brown cardboard box. The fifth chapter is a nice step up in this respect – although it’s certainly not an actual crate, it’s now a much… (more)

iDventure: Unfinished Case of Holmes

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2017

iDventure is a German company who have an online game creation system, and who sell a set of games built using that system. There are currently four different games, and each can be purchased either for print-and-play or in physical form. We tried th… (more)

Deckscape: The Fate of London

Room-in-a-box, Oct 2017

The Fate of London is Deckscape’s second game, and follows a similar structure and style to its predecessor, but is a step up in difficulty level.

As before, the game consists of a set of sixty large format cards. There are no separate instructions;… (more)

Escape Room The Game: Murder Mystery

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Murder Mystery is one of the two expansion scenarios so far released for Escape Room The Game (at time of writing, another two are pending translation to English). Where the other expansion, Welcome to Funland, made me warm to the series, this one im… (more)

Escape Room The Game: Welcome to Funland

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Of the various well-known ranges of home escape games out there, Escape Room The Game tends to win fewest fans. That’s partly because it’s relatively expensive, but also because of some dubious puzzles. So I can’t say I was anticipating their two exp… (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 4: The Trials of Houdini

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

With episode 3, I had worried that the slight decrease in quality from the first couple of episodes would be permanent; Trials of Houdini reassures that that’s not the case.

This episode is set in early 20th century Coney Island, where you must navi… (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 3: Escape The Colosseum

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Episode 3 was actually the first of the Escape The Crate series I played, due to the order the boxes were delivered in (and a certain lack of patience on my part). I’m quite glad of that, since it’s a step down from the first two episodes, particular… (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 2: Escape the Queen Anne’s Revenge

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

The second Escape The Crate episode places you on Blackbeard’s pirate ship, searching for an anomalous object that risks overturning the course of history, also advancing the larger story introduced in the first episode.

With many subscription-base… (more)

Escape The Crate: Chapter 1: Escape the Confederate Spymistress

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

With the ever-increasing number of play-at-home escape games coming onto the market, I guess it was a matter of time until someone tried a subscription-based version – and that’s exactly what Escape The Crate have done. You sign up in advance to a tw… (more)