Tag Archives: Online

The Panic Room: CSI: The Mafia Murders

Online, May 2020

On starting the second play at home CSI game from The Panic Room, I assumed it would be very similar to the first – but no, or at least not exactly. The platform used to deliver the game is the same, of course – the same system of solve a puzzle, ent… (more)

The Panic Room: CSI: Grounded

Online, May 2020

First of The Panic Room’s several CSI games, and one of the first online games to be released after the lockdown, Grounded is a murder mystery on a plane: one of the passengers collapsed mid-flight, apparently due to foul play.

The game’s initial p… (more)

The Panic Room: My Dearest Emily

Online, May 2020

In between The Panic Room’s various CSI-themed online games, My Dearest Emily sticks out rather. In stark contrast to the usual escape room themes of peril and world-saving, it’s set in a lesser-known part of 19th Century US history, and tells a gent… (more)

Hysteria Escape Rooms: Project Blue Book

Online, May 2020

Project Bluebook is based around UFO investigations. Whereas in The Bank Job the puzzles followed the narrative sequence of a bank heist, Bluebook is a bit more abstract, though builds up to a denouement of sorts.

Bluebook uses the same Google Forms… (more)

Hysteria Escape Rooms: The Bank Job

Online, May 2020

Playing an escape game from home requires a little extra suspension of disbelief, when players are sitting in a familiar living room not a simulated bank vault. Some games deal with that by saying the players are ‘remote support’ or some such; The Ba… (more)

Crime Runners: Back To The Congressman

Online, May 2020

Not having (yet) played Crime Runners’ physical escape rooms, I don’t know the details of the story of which this online game is a continuation. That wasn’t a barrier to playing this, though it did make me quite curious to go and discover what the ea… (more)

Pentargo Escape Room: Pentargo Quarantine

Online, May 2020

Online escape games vary greatly in style. Some are essentially paper-based puzzles delivered digitally, others are more like puzzle-centric computer games. And some use a ‘realism’ style where the game isn’t presented as a set of puzzles, but as a r… (more)

clueQuest: Stolen IQ

Online, Apr 2020

An upfront warning for this game: clueQuest’s title ‘Print + Cut + Escape’ is accurate in all its parts. Before the Escape and after the Print, there is a great deal of Cut – you need to go through the game’s pages and cut out a great many components… (more)

Co-Decode: A Jewel In Jeopardy

Online, Apr 2020

There’s an elegance in economic design. And where the other print and play games I’ve tried consist of a fat wad of pages, Co-Decode’s game consists of a mere 3-5 sheets (their game description avoids specifying the exact number, so I’ll follow suit)… (more)

Bewilder Box & Eltham Escapes: Sector X: The B.R.U.C.E. Project Part 1

Online, Apr 2020

A collaboration from the escape room companies Bewilder Box and Eltham Escapes, Sector X is an online escape game where you must guide the robot B.R.U.C.E. through a series of puzzles. The new breed of online escapes is very diverse in style, and thi… (more)