Tag Archives: atmospheric

Escape Rush: Submarine Bunker

Brussels, Jan 2018

Really good games are harder to compare with each other. While every escape game is different, after playing a few hundred games, their relative quality mainly comes down to the same few factors: are the puzzles interesting and fun, well-designed and… (more)

The Room: The Beast of Berlin

Berlin, Nov 2017

Second of the three games currently available at The Room, The Beast of Berlin has you investigating a serial killer, and is significantly darker than its two sibling games. Whereas I’d encourage you to play their other games with a team of 2-3, Beas… (more)

The Room: The Lost Treasure

Berlin, Nov 2017

I’ve seen more than one enthusiast describe Lost Treasure as the best escape room in Europe. Of course, tastes vary, and no one person can play more than a selection of the games available, so clearly any such claim is only a matter of subjective opt… (more)

House of Tales: The Executioner

Berlin, Nov 2017

The Executioner is a horror game, but while it follows some of the usual tropes of the genre – a start involving separation and imprisonment, plenty of rather grisly props – it’s not the usual serial killer story. Instead, you’ve been captured by a m… (more)

House of Tales: The Secret of the Pharaohs

Berlin, Nov 2017

House of Tales’ take on an Egyptian game had perhaps the longest intro story I remember in any game. Very abbreviated, it went something like this: there’s a cursed vase that you bought and attempted to return in a case of supernaturally-induced buye… (more)

House of Tales: Kowloon – Walled City

Berlin, Nov 2017

Kowloon is an 18-rated escape game, and although the website description of the story doesn’t entirely spell it out, the plot is that you’re Triad gang members, breaking into a rival gang’s premises to swipe their loot. The premises in question happe… (more)

Exit: Huxley

Berlin, Nov 2017

Huxley is only the second virtual reality escape game I’ve played, and so it remains a challenge to write a fair review. The aim is to assess the game, but with such a new format it’s far from straightforward to tease out what’s impressive about the … (more)

Final Escape: The Steampunk Puppeteer

Berlin, Nov 2017

The curious backstory for this game involves a puppeteer who finds a magical talking wooden puppet, who helps him make his fortune, but then one night runs off with all the money. To which the puppeteer’s response is to make a replacement puppet… f… (more)

Final Escape: Robot Paranoia

Berlin, Nov 2017

Robot Paranoia is a sci-fi game set in a future dystopia where humans have mostly been eliminated by robots, where you have an hour to get out of the robot-controlled area before you’re caught.

The decor is more Bladerunner than Star Trek, a crumbli… (more)

Claustrophobia: Pirate Hut

Berlin, Nov 2017

Caught in a storm on an island in the Caribbean, you seek shelter in an old hut… only to find that it’s haunted by the spirit of an old pirate, who will now keep you trapped forever unless you can find a way to escape. That’s the setup for the thir… (more)