by Trapt Melbourne (website)
The Basement, 377 Lonsdale St, VIC 3000
1-6 players
Team of 2: £40.00 AU$80.00
Team of 4: £50.00 AU$100.00
Team of 6: £60.00 AU$120.00
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based on ratings from 5 users
combined with 2 pro reviews
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Has a lot more player-interaction experiences done through the web-based inventory interface than most play-as-avatar escape rooms. While this does make a lot more puzzles interesting, there's no clean "used item" interface, meaning that there's always the dread that you might need some information from previous rooms and not be able to get them easily. I'd love to say "trust the game designers to not get you into an irretrievable state", and while this is true, there are one or two puzzles that would be nicer to solve without the back-and-forth. An extra half-star to the designers for making a good effort to do remove-play-only elements.
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Reviewing remote play games is a curious shift where most of the factors that make a physical room good or not still apply, but where the gamemaster and the technology and the way they operate the game end up mattering as much or even more. Alchemy was a game that was well run where the venue had clearly put a lot of thought into making it work remotely, where I still found it hard to ignore the added friction of playing via a video link.
This game is of course themed around magic and alchemy, ...
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