Tag Archives: Real Escape Game

Real Escape Game: Escape from The Cursed Spirit of The Abandoned School

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2022

This is one of those tricky reviews to write. Some games are well presented but poorly designed; some are just bad; but Escape from the Cursed Spirit of the Abandoned School has a great deal that’s notably clever and original, and even so I just didn… (more)

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)