Professor Baron Emmanuel von Katzenstein und Kartoffelberg is a genius - an inventor, an adventurer, an explorer, and a madman. Very rich by the way. His letter reaches you, wherein the Professor asks for your help. Will you get to drive the submarine that the Professor used to hunt sea-monsters with? Or perhaps he wants you to continue his experiment of scientifically measuring magic? Either way, you can be sure, an adventure awaits!
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Played: 2 May 2025Team size: 4Time taken: 43:22Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenquite easy
A generally enjoyable game with some varied settings and unusual puzzles. The canned hint mechanism was useful and amusing. It takes you through the story well, and has some fun elements (we did leave wondering how well one would work with only two players, but it was something that did look like it could be adjusted by player count, so perhaps they do that). And some tasks that are silly in a good way!
Speaking of player count, we were a group of 4, and we felt that more than that would be too many as there aren't tons of puzzles and it's fairly linear.
We did struggle a little with the tech at times with one puzzle not activating when we felt it should have, some buttons not working immediately, and there's a task you have to do a few times in the game that I found became more tedious every time due to the lack of sensitivity in the controls and the task parameters.
Game is playable in English or Czech, and our host had great English, so no need to worry about language if you don't speak Czech.
Played: 21 Nov 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 47:00Outcome: Successful escape!
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Really nice game with a couple of fun elements - we loved particularly the way to give hints. The puzzles were not all logical and we struggled a couple of times (but we were only 2), but there were some that were really good and great fun.
Loved this game from start to finish. Really enjoyed how everything had a clear purpose to the mission at hand and elements that combined together throughout the game. The puzzles, whilst on the easier side, were varied- musical, observational, skill based etc. and everyone in our team left with a huge smile on their face.
A very immersive and very complete experience. The props were top quality. The puzzle was intuitive and quite well implemented. One of the tech was a little frustrating to use. A good beginner room.
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