Tag Archives: Online

TrapDoor Escape Stream: Cure Z

Online, Aug 2020

Cure Z is a different kind of beast to other avatar rooms. TrapDoor were one of the very first companies to produce a remote play experience, and they’ve forged their own path – sort of a separate branch on the evolutionary tree of escape room format… (more)

Live Cam Escape: Frankenstein’s Laboratory

Online, Aug 2020

The name might sound like a new operator sprung up in the time of lockdown, but Live Cam Escape is an alias for Polish escape venue Let Me Out, based in various locations in Poland (plus Brussels), and their avatar games are pre-existing rooms, thoug… (more)

Escape Hotel: Caçadores do Tesouro Perdido (Temple)

Online, Aug 2020

The way a gamemaster operates a physical escape room can make it or break it, and that goes triple when playing via a remote livestream. Temple was unfortunately one where the style of avataring significantly detracted from the game.

First impressio… (more)

Escape Masters Wellington: Serial Killer

Online, Aug 2020

Escape Masters in Wellington have a plethora of games, and I selected their serial killer theme mainly based on timing. This follows the classic setup of waking up in the grisly den of a murderer, with an hour to solve your way to freedom before he r… (more)

Omescape San José: Pursuit of the Assassin Artist

Online, Sep 2020

Omescape’s game has you up against a murderous serial killer, who is also one of the world’s leading artists. If that sounds strange and incongruous, well, this is a strange and incongruous game – in all the best ways.

I’m going to avoid describing … (more)

Crystal Maze Online

Online, Sep 2020

When escape room websites try to explain what they are to the uninitiated, over and over again they use the same cultural touchstone as their reference: the 90s TV gameshow The Crystal Maze. These days there is of course a live version open to the pu… (more)

Escapology Las Vegas: Th3 C0d3

Online, Aug 2020

Does that which happens in Vegas still stay in Vegas if the participants are remotely connected from a different continent? In Escapology’s game we were (collectively?) FBI agent Alex Vargas, who in proper Hollywood lone wolf style is breaking into t… (more)

Terror DTLA: Son of Sam

Online, Jul 2020

There’s a blurry line at the edge of the escape room genre, which has got even fuzzier with the recent explosion of play from home games, and there are plenty of games and experiences where it’s a judgement call whether to list them in this site or n… (more)

The Escape Game: Hanna Unlocked

Online, Jul 2020

The gradual increase of escape experiences that are based on official IP franchises is I guess a welcome sign of how increasingly well-known and mainstream the hobby is, and the lack of geographic restrictions makes plY-from-home games even better su… (more)

ClueQuest: Print + Cut + Escape Episode 3: Humanity 2.0

Online, Aug 2020

I liked Cluequest’s first print and play game and loved their second; does the third part measure up? For those who prefer to skim read: yes, it does. While not reaching the very high bar set by episode 2, it’s still in the top rank of home games for… (more)