Lakes Escapes: Casino Heist

By | February 9, 2021

by Lakes Escapes (website)

Stanley Street, CA14 2JD

Up to 6 players

£20.00

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You have been selected from the best code breakers and diamond thieves in the country. A notorious criminal gang, The Barko Syndicate, have summoned you for the biggest heist of your lives. Putting your reputation on the line as the best team for the job, you are to enter an underground casino, where the famous Shadow Diamonds are held in the vault. The problem is the casino is opening soon and the staff will be arriving. But, there is a twist, you have the opportunity to take a further 9 million dollars in cold hard cash if you have the time and the nerve. Can you take the full 30 million dollar haul?
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based on ratings from 28 users
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Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5

Excellent value for money, lots of twists and turns, took us ages but we enjoyed it. 

ratsontour expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5

Very clunky and unresponsive user interface. The puzzles were pretty good and the overall story is also very well made, so nothing wrong there. The only (and very serious) problem through the whole game was that it takes a loads of time to try and hit the cursor to a right spot (sometimes everything works, sometimes not and there seemed not to be any logic when/why this happened, but it happened a plenty of times), so that's why our team feels this as a poor and frustrating one.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5

Really great

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5

I was stuck at the table (one of the first puzzles) for at least 40 minutes but after that I had a fairly smooth ride. The game had some flaws but overall it was enjoyable.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
PuzzleParrot expert rated this:Rated between 10 and 10 out of 5

Extremely clunky interface.  Unclickable areas, confusing hint system. One of the poorer Telescape adaptations my team had played.

stairs expert rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Played: 5 Sep 2021 Team size: 1 Time taken: 01:40:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

I'd heard good things about the in-person version of this game but, if that's the case, I can only conclude that sadly it does not transition well to being online, because this was just confusing and frustrating...  felt a bit like a point-and-click adventure that had been made during a 12hr game jam - the potential was there, but the user interface was awful, large parts felt unfinished (hotspots didn't work, graphics were low resolution and you could clearly see the camera in reflections in objects in the game etc.) and ultimately it just wasn't fun to play.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5

A little slow but amazing 🤩 

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