Enigmania Dortmund: Revolución Olé

By | January 20, 2021
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by Enigmania Dortmund (website)

Dortmund

3-8 players

Languages: EN, DE

60 minutes

2 copies

Viva la Revolución! You stormed the presidential palace of the banana republic “La Isla”. El Presidente has fled and will come back with reinforcements in an hour. The people are in turmoil and demanding reforms: are you able to get the right people on your side? Otherwise you are more likely to be out of office than you can say “Ay Caramba”!

Now it’s up to you to take power!

As in any decent state, the president is just a puppet of the really important influence groups: business, military, church, media and trade union. The old elites still think of El Presidente. But with the right reforms, all conviction is quickly forgotten. Find out which law will make your Archbishop Papa Pepe happy and how your TV star Sara Rubio draws your attention. What economic boss Diego Ortega wants and also like the military chief and the labor leader.

Take power in the state for one hour. The revolutionary gameplay lets you vote on reforms and improve popularity. Will you be able to bring all the influence groups to your side before El Presidente returns with reinforcements? The clock is ticking …

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Rated between 2 and 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 18 users
combined with 8 pro reviews

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Frotty rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
It has nothing to do with a classic Escape Room and should be put in a different Genre entirely. You do not Escape, there is pretty much no progression. It's just a single room where you have to influence some characters via votes on a screen, which happen every X minutes. All clues are basically available from the start, you just have to match them with the questions correctly, which can be very finicky. Make too many wrong choices and you have already lost, even if there is time left. You have no agency over anything. It just felt like a complete disappointment.
Frauke expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 1 Feb 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 44:42 Outcome: Successful escape!

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If you’ve heard anything at all about Revolución Olé, you’ll probably be aware that it’s a highly unusual sort of escape room with a unique game style. Exactly how it works was clearly explained to us twice, first by our host - who even switched from his in-character Russian accent to more familiar British tones to make sure we understood properly - and then again in an intro video. Still, I’ve heard players saying that they hadn’t quite got the idea until partway through their game. I’ll outlin...

reviewed in Gravesend
A round-up of five games I played at the Panic Room with highlights being Wizard of Oz and Revolucion Ole.
reviewed in Gravesend
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reviewed in Gravesend
7.2
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reviewed in Berlin
It’s tempting when writing about Revolución Olé to focus on how different it is to your average escape room. And we will: this is a game structured in a very different way. But perhaps the most surprising thing about Revolución Olé is that given how differently it presents, it’s very much a traditional escape room at heart.
reviewed in Gravesend
7.0 / 10
As the game synopsis says, this game is about voting and influence so is a little unusual in gameplay but does contain traditional puzzles that you would find in a standard escape room.
reviewed in Gravesend
It was great to find such a unique room that also presented a high degree of difficulty. It really was unlike any other escape experience and for that fact alone I can’t recommend it enough!
reviewed in Gravesend

A beautiful looking room, which has saved the rating for me, the game itself I did not enjoy, less of an escape room, as the goal is to answer questions that appear in intervals on a screen, needing to get a % right, all whilst trying to solve clues to get the information for the questions, maybe it was just too much for 2 people, it was definitely too much for us. A good room if you want something a little different to your normal escape room, but not one for me. 

reviewed in Gravesend

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