Tag Archives: Online

Real Escape Game: Escape from the Abandoned Laboratory

Online, Aug 2020

There’s a lot of variation between escape rooms across different companies as countries, but also a lot of commonality, shared conventions that form a fuzzy but identifiable genre. Real Escape Game – the modern incarnation of the company SCRAP that p… (more)

Real Escape Game: Escape from the Alien Research Facility

Online, Jul 2020

Rarely has my opinion of a game varied so much through the course of playing it. A third of the way in, Alien Research had almost completely lost my interest; and yet thereafter it improved to a degree that managed to substantially eclipse the earlie… (more)

Agent Venture: Cyborg Island

Online, Aug 2020

In the grand tradition of sequels, Agent Venture’s second game is everything their first one was, but more so. Where the first had you infiltrating a building, this time round your target is the island where the bad guy is building his cyborg army. T… (more)

Agent Venture: The Heist

Online, Jul 2020

Even though the term has broadened recently to include a whole variety of online experiences, I wouldn’t call Agent Venture an escape room. It uses some of the same skills, and will appeal to a great many of those who like escape rooms, but it’s a di… (more)

Live Escape Salisbury: POD

Online, Aug 2020

Firstly, note that at time of writing POD is due to close as a remote play game in a week or so, so if you want to catch it you’ll need to move swiftly. I was in fact in two minds about whether to play it, since I believe it’s going to be adapted int… (more)

Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space: The Lost Temple

Online, Aug 2020

I took way too long to get around to trying Lost Temple. That was partly because it had a longish expected game time, and partly because it needed some components printed in advance – although there is a printless version provided, I was always going… (more)

Intrigue Escape Rooms: Casino Heist Cash In

Online, Jul 2020

If you read only the title of this game and not the description, you may get a surprise: rather than a glitzy casino, the official setting is a barn outside Nashville. This is because you’re not robbing a casino, you’re recovering the loot that your … (more)

Oblivity: The Profoctor Predicament

Online, Aug 2020

There are very few podcasts I’ve ever tried, and so I’d not heard of Oblivity, an episodic sci-fi sitcom that seems to revolve around the crew of a research base on Pluto. This spin-off escape room takes the form of a web-based light puzzle hunt, wit… (more)

Castle Escapes: Hunt for the Crimson Fang

Online, Jul 2020

I was immediately intrigued not just by Crimson Fang’s trailer but by the fact that Castle Escapes are building games specifically for remote play, not adapting existing physical rooms. Playing via a conference call inevitably compromises the escape … (more)

The Box Metz: Casse Du Siècle

Online, Jul 2020

Making an escape room available for remote play has, for many companies, involved little more than giving a gamesmaster a GoPro. Plenty now also use a separate web-based inventory system, which is invaluable for many games. The Box has gone a great d… (more)