House of Tales: One Night In Hong Kong

By | March 20, 2019
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by House of Tales (website)

Berlin

2-6 players

Languages: EN, DE

60 minutes

2 copies

The Chinese mafia has quietly ruled the underworld for ages. A web of extortion, prostitution and illegal trafficking spans across the Walled City. So far it has been your family in whose hands all threads ran together, but now a new triad announces the bloody change of power.

Defend the honor of your triad and find our lost brother Wen Dee. He and the extortion money of the last month disappeared without a trace...

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Kowloon is an 18-rated escape game, and although the website description of the story doesn’t entirely spell it out, the plot is that you’re Triad gang members, breaking into a rival gang’s premises to swipe their loot. The premises in question happen to be a sex club, hence the game’s rating.

Perhaps the adult theme means that this is a game popular with the hen and stag do crowd - in the briefing the host seemed prepped for innuendo and banter, in a way that left us a little nonplussed. The h...

With the way the game was designed, I would designate a team leader. It almost feels like we're just sharing a game screen over zoom. There was really no point in multiple people clicking different things at the same time because the puzzles were linear and it had to be solved as a team before moving on. If HOUSE of TALES want to make a more cooperative type of game, they'll have to implement more puzzles that teams can construct together or build an inventory system where the players can at least "search and find" items separately. A non-linear play could be quite interesting to see. We did love the uniqueness of the story line and the graphics of the game a lot. The ending also left us a nice cliffhanger which I assume there will be a sequel coming in the near future?
8.2

One Night in Hong Kong offers a rather unconsumed setting in a special scenery, which makes you want more and of which we would have liked to see more. The room is recommended for beginners and advanced players alike. 

House of Tales in Berlin is often named as one of the best locations for Escape Room fans in Berlin – naturally, we had to see what all that noise was all about. We battled an Executioner, the Chinese Mafia and the mysterious Illuminati…
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6.9/10
Die Musik, die dunklen, teils engen Räume und die passende visuelle Gestaltung gaben uns das Gefühl, in einer anderen Welt zu sein.

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