by Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space (website)
302 N Broadway Ave, Suite 100, IL 61801
1-6 players
60-120 mins
You're trapped in your office building after-hours, and you stumble into a place that shouldn't exist. Discover the secrets of Floor 13 and escape the building...if you can! Discover clues, piece together login codes, and go face to face with a haunted computer. Solve the challenges of this slightly spooky escape room from the comfort of home!
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This is a well-produced digital escape room, of the point-n-click variety, with some accompanying PDF printout materials. The tech worked well - we played witha remote team over Zoom - although the multiplayer experience is not completely seamless: one connection is assigned as the "lead player", and while additional players can join as "companions" to the same game session (which means they share the same game state, and can mostly view the same puzzles), there are certain interactions and puzzles that can only be solved by the lead player. As a result, we ended up screen-sharing the lead player's view anyway, so that everyone felt more equal members of a team.
The puzzles themselves use a nice variety of common escape room mechanics and some light papercraft, and they mostly flow well, although there were a handful of occassions when we solved puzzles apparently out-of-order (since we later discovered items related to those puzzles which we didn't make use of) . But they provided a good hour or so of entertainment, for a very reasonable price. Sections of the game are narrated, and the voice-acting is good.
My biggest complaint is that, while the storyline and puzzles were solid enough, the game itself didn't feel like it had much character.... we didn't ever really feel engaged, or experience strong emotion as we had with other games - it wasn't scary, nor funny - it was just... fine. And for only $10, that's still not bad.
An escapey non-time-sensitive videogame with fun puzzles and some creative use of paper printouts. Gotta hand it to them for making an office theme interesting, too. We jumped a gate by accident and solved a puzzle too early, only realizing later, so make sure to follow instructions. We played with three people, and two probably would have been better.
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If I copy-pasted in my review for The Lost Temple, CU Adventuresā other digital game, it would need only a little adjusting to be equally suitable for Floor 13 - which, given how much I liked that one, is very much a good thing.
Floor 13 uses the same custom web interface for managing the game. This provides story text (read aloud if you wish), atmospheric audio, and a mixture of static and interactive illustrations that provide the puzzles. These are structured in a series of ālocationsā that ...
CU Adventures comes super highly recommended, so I suggested it to a new group of friends to try out at once. The concept is refreshing, and itās about as close as itās possible to be to a real life escape room in a browser based game and for that Iām impressed! Each player logs in remotely, thereās a āLeaderā and a number of āCompanionsā. Each can play at their own pace, exploring new areas, finding new things, and solving puzzles alone (or in many cases, collaboratively).
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This is another sensational game from CU Adventures and is a steal at $10. If you havenāt played any of their at-home games, I would actually recommend doing this one first, as itās a bit easier and shorter than Lost Temple.