The Emerald Flame Review | The Emerald Flame is a narrative tabletop puzzle game told in three parts. Commissioned by an organization shrouded in mystery, players take the role of a historical expert embarking on a quest to piece together the recipe for a fabled elixir by investigating maps, drawings, alchemical diagrams, and mysterious artifacts. […]Read More
Escape from Mystwood Mansion| In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion’s final secret? Developer: Lost Sock Studio Date Played: September […]Read More
For fans of the weird, the wonderful, and the utterly immersive… Something exciting is coming in 2024. From the creators of The Locksmith’s Dream comes an announcement of a new experience: The Key of Dreams. We sat down with the two creators, Ivan and Laura, a super-team of designers and creators to find out just […]Read More
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest and (in my totally un-biased opinion) the best Fringe Festivals in the world. It takes place every year in August, lasts the whole month, and showcases somewhere in the region of 3,800 acts consisting of 50,000 performers. Assuming every act lasts around an hour, it’d take you 159 […]Read More
(This article was originally posted in full on Medium, but I decided to cross-post here as well, in case anyone is here looking for game design advice!) I am not a video game developer… Okay, okay. That’s not quite true. I’m a puzzle game designer. I’ve worked on physical escape rooms, a bunch of tabletop […]Read More
Down to the Wire Review | Being in Russia undercover for the government isn’t easy at the best of times. Especially during the Cold War. Even more especially when someone has tipped off Russian intelligence about you….and they aren’t very happy. Wanting to destroy your work; and everything attached to it. You have one hour […]Read More
Back in 1636, half of Newcastle’s population had succumbed to the Black Death. Enter our plague escape room, which overlooks a real plague pit. Can you outwit the crazed plague doctor and escape before the horror of the Black Death gets you? Date Played: August 2023 Number of Players: 4 Time Taken: 23 minutes […]Read More
Scarlet Envelope Holiday Greeting Cards Review | Decipher Santa’s wish, solve multi-layered puzzles with Rudolf, THINK, and HAVE FUN! Date Played: August 2023 Number of Players: 1 Time Taken: 20–30 minutes per card Difficulty: Medium It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎶 Okay, so here in the UK, it’s pretty warm right now… […]Read More
BreakInBox Review | Three locked boxes one inside the other. Breakinbox Challenges weave together versatile knowledge worlds making the solution a complex unique experience. Date Played: July 2023 Number of Players: 3 Time Taken: ~20 – ~60 minutes Difficulty: Easy-Medium I always get extra excited when I received puzzle games from far flung countries around […]Read More
Old Town Edinburgh Treasure Hunt Review| In 1695, Edinburgh’s Old Town was haunted by a mysterious grave robber known as the ‘Midnight Body Snatcher’, who when supply ran out.. turned his hand to murder! Date Played: July 2023 Time Taken: 3 Hours Number of Players: 2 Difficulty: Easy Here at the Escape Roomer we all […]Read More
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