Tag Archives: Online

Vortex Escape: N.O.O.M. Project

Online, May 2020

Vortex is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, and while a great many Spanish-language online games have been released, very few are playable in English; N.O.O.M. Project is one of the exceptions. You might guess from the picture of an astronaut tha… (more)

Clue Cracker: The Haunting of Harlequin House

Online, Jun 2020

All of Clue Cracker’s online games so far have followed the same straightforward structure, where the solution to each puzzle unlocks the next. As with their others, the simple format uses video clips as well as text to advance the story and break up… (more)

Clue Cracker: Fairground Felony

Online, May 2020

At time of writing Clue Cracker have released four online games: one short free one, one 60 minute game, and two longer 90 minute games, and Fairground Felony is one of the latter. In this one you’re alone in a spooky fairground, pitted against a mys… (more)

The Escape Game: Vol 2: The Silk Road

Online, Jun 2020

The sequel to Chasing Hahn continues the story, from which you might be able to guess that while you Chased Hahn you didn’t actually Catch Hahn. This second game picks up where the first left off, and while the game style is very similar it feels mor… (more)

The Escape Game: Vol 1: Chasing Hahn

Online, Jun 2020

I gather The Escape Game have a recurring bad guy, by the name of Vincent Hahn. That much was clear not just from their online games being based around him, but by the way there’s evidently a back story to the guy – or rather a front story (?), since… (more)

Claustrophobia Moscow: A Stir In Springfield

Online, May 2020

The Moscow escaping scene has quite a reputation, and is dominated by one company above all: Claustrophobia. And while they have branches elsewhere in Europe (though fewer than they once did), a chance to sample one of their home city games was an op… (more)

Hour Glass Escape Room: The Queen’s Stolen Jewels

Online, May 2020

In the many new genres of online escape rooms springing up, the category variously referred to as ‘audio-led’, ‘simulated’ or ‘GM-led’ is essentially a remote livestream game without an actual room. Hour Glass’s game was the first such I’d tried, and… (more)

The Escape Game: Gold Rush

Online, May 2020

There may be gold in them thar hills, but in this Gold Rush you’re not panning in any rivers, you’re searching for a conveniently pre-prospected stash of gold hidden somewhere in a mountain shack – with the usual hour in which to find it before the m… (more)

Sky High Escape Room: Casino Mortale

Online, May 2020

Casino Mortale is a story-driven game, and that’s made clear from some time before your actual booking slot, thanks to in-character emails and other details provided to introduce the story and its characters. It’s a somewhat convoluted story, where t… (more)

LogicLocks: Amsterdam Catacombs

Online, May 2020

Logic Locks’ Catacombs is – in its original physical form – a masterpiece of a game, a slice of gothic horror that succeeds on multiple levels as immersive theatre, an escape room and a haunt maze. And of course it takes place in a genuine undergroun… (more)