Prison Escape: Prison Escape Online

Extremely unique and at the same time extremely confusing. I guess this game can have high highs but will more likely provide low lows. Before the game there is a big amount of text to read and the game will punish you harshly if you do not memorize it very good and at the same time there is not enough time to get a good understanding of what is going on, there is not enough time to actually wonder what to do and to enjoy it properly (actual time is much shorter than 45 minutes which is more of an equivalent of the time between entering the doors of a company and exiting it for typical escape room). I want to forget about it as soon as I can.

Heavy on the role-play aspect with pretty much zero puzzles.  The roleplay aspect was sort of entertaining and fun, but likely led us into a false sense of complacency once the timer started.  Once the timer starts, any sort of role-play then becomes detrimental as you are burning precious seconds on the clock.  This might have been tolerable if you were given more precise instructions on what skills are available to you and what their limitations were, but there's a lot of "learn and do on the fly" that makes this frustrating.  If your play group has "planners" who want to be careful and "doers" who want to just trust their intuition, this game will be a complete disaster.  (Actually, if your group only has "planners", you'll probably also not have fun because there isn't enough time to make a good plan.)

I'm going to post this review and now try to forget that this game ever existed.  At least for a few hours.

This game is extremely unique, and I was delightfully surprised by the scale of the event and the depth of the immersion. It wasn't an easy game either, judging by the low escape rate. Even so, it was a thrilling experience!

A remarkable immersive theater / escape game hybrid, designed from scratch for remote play, set in the famous Breda dome with multiple actors interacting with you in a clever scenario with diegetic social puzzles.

Not everyone has a good time here; you get relatively little gameplay time, and it's unforgiving if you fall off the "golden path" of expected solution.

Quite different from the in-person experience (which is more of an open world immersive theater experience), this was an extremely well done slice of that world that still managed to capture its essence in a fun and engaging way.