Tag Archives: Room in a box

Escape Tales: Low Memory

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2020

Low Memory is the follow-up to The Awakening, one of the most interesting and successful home escape games released yet. Like its predecessor, it uses a fairly complex system of action tokens in place of a time limit to restrict how thoroughly you ca… (more)

Unlock!: Lost in the Time Warp!

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Last in the Timeless Adventures box, Time Warp is marked as the top difficulty level – although in my experience the difference in ‘official’ difficulty between Unlock! games is relatively small, and outweighed by how well or otherwise you click with… (more)

Deckscape: Heist In Venice

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2018

Heist In Venice follows the normal Deckscape format with a couple of twists. Your mission is to steal a €1 billion Euro poker chip from a casino, and in the tradition of heist movies, you have a team of specialists: here provided by a set of six char… (more)

Deckscape: Behind The Curtain

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2020

Fifth in the Deckscape series (but the fourth one I’ve tried), Behind The Curtain has a conjuring theme and a backstory that starts with you attending a magician’s show. This is the usual Deckscape format, where you proceed through a deck of somewhat… (more)

Unlock!: Arsène Lupin and the Great White Diamond

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Arsène Lupin is another totem of French culture almost completely unknown to me, but who seems to be a mysterious but gallant master thief. In Unlock!’s game you are not the legendary criminal himself but a group of street urchins to whom Lupin has s… (more)

Unlock!: The Noside Show

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

While each Unlock! game is a stand-alone story, fully half the boxed sets have included an episode featuring the closest thing the series has to a recurring villain. The Noside Show is the third of these, and its cartoonish style of illustration and … (more)

Unlock!: In Pursuit of the White Rabbit

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2019

If there’s a theme to Unlock!’s Heroic Adventures box, it’s superb potential that just doesn’t quite come together. White Rabbit is clearly intended as the flagship game in the box, with an extended 90 min play time and the maximum difficulty rating,… (more)

Unlock!: Sherlock Holmes – The Scarlet Thread of Murder

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2019

The Scarlet Thread of Murder is an ambitious concept for a game – perhaps too much so for its own good. Unlock!’s Sherlock game does well at capturing a genuine feeling of investigating a murder mystery, but the result makes for a game that can leave… (more)

Unlock!: Insert Coin

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2019

As a matter of policy, Unlock! box sets seem to each contain one game that’s more tailored for younger players, in both theming and difficulty level; in the Heroic set, that game is Insert Coin.

It’s themed for retro 80s arcade gaming, and that’s re… (more)

Exit: The Haunted Roller Coaster

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Like its sister game House of Riddles, this comes with a low difficulty rating and a linear, one-puzzle-at-a-time structure. Also like House of Riddles, it mixes pages of story into the clue booklet. Perhaps Exit was concerned that they weren’t provi… (more)