Locked In Glasgow: Dolls House | Review
Dolls House Review | You and your fellow podcasters decide to launch the first episode of your show from the house of the Carson family, where the notorious doll maker’s…
Enigmaticon: Phone Escape: Hopeless | Review
Phone Escape: Hopeless Review | You wake up within a dark chamber, holding an unfamiliar mobile device. The sole source of illumination is the flashlight of that phone. A message…
My Puzzle Game Highlights from WASD 2024
At the time of writing this, I just returned from WASD. Wait, what is WASD? WASD is one of the biggest (and in my humble opinion, best) video game festivals…
Locked In Glasgow: Bloodline | Review
Bloodline Review | You have received a strange letter. Your late great great grandfather’s lawyer has requested that you visit a Storage Unit facility at 93 Hope Street in order…
Bridge Command, a New Sci-Fi Escape Room-Like Experience Opens in London
London has it’s fair share of incredible, immersive experiences – from Phantom Peak, to the Tomb Raider Live Experience, to the Gunpowder Plot to name a few. The latest to…
How to complete all the trails at Phantom Peak, London
Phantom Peak is London’s most popular immersive experience venue. Located just a short walk from Canada Water in London, it boasts a large, 30,000 square feet (+) “playing area” consisting…
Escape Reality Glasgow: Star Crew | Review
Star Crew Review | The SS Clementine is an old but beloved starship known for its technical problems. When the internal system fails mid-flight, the crew is forced to make…
Divergent Games: Mystery and Moonshine | Review
Mystery and Moonshine Review | It’s 1931 rum-runners and bootleggers have mostly kept the city supplied with sub-standard gut-rot gin and bathtub bourbon. Now a large shipment of top-quality Mississippi…
Sokobond Express | Review
Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways. Leverage your strategic planning skills, visualizing your end destination ahead of time…
Exitus Escape Rooms: Coco Loco | Review
Coco Loco Review | It’s time to take over the family chocolate factory. What will you give up for the perfect chocolate? Date Played: October 2023 Number of Players: 2…
The Best Escape Room Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
In this post we’re diving into some of the escape room podcasts the team at The Escape Roomer regularly listen to. From solve-a-long puzzles, to interviews with designers and creators,…
The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will return on 23rd May, 2024
Draknek & Friends is excited to announce that Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will return on Steam from May 23 to May 30 2024! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is an annual event…
Crux Club: Dark Tours Volume 1 Cemeteries | Review
Crux Club’s Dark Tours Review | As a Dark Tourist, you seek places others fear to tread. As you play through this puzzle adventure book, you’ll visit the world’s strangest…
Headlock Escape Rooms: Rise of the Fungi | Review
Rise of the Fungi Review: The spirits of Toadstool Forest have gathered a team of protectors, or Shepherds, to protect their forest. You will guide Paxillus through this wacky realm…
Cave Escape: Project Iceman | Review
Project Iceman Review: Having learnt from past mistakes and with the aim of creating a utopian society, governments and corporations worldwide have now successfully ended the use of fossil fuels…
Nominate your favourite ‘Thinky Game’ of 2023 in the new Thinky Awards
Move over TGA, there’s a new games awards ceremony in town… Just kidding, don’t move over TGA. The more awards ceremonies celebrating great games, the better. That’s exactly what the…
Locked In: The Cutting Room | Review
The Cutting Room Review | In 1987 a series of bizarre murders plagued the city of Edinburgh. Over a span of a few months, 6 victims were found in various…
Mystery Locks: Santa is Missing! | Review
Santa is Missing! Review | The most wonderful time of the year has arrived, but something is wrong. The presents are missing, the Christmas Tree is empty and there’s no…
EscapeWelt: Blackbeard’s Compass | Review
Blackbeard’s Compass – the newest puzzle box from EscapeWelt, inspired by the adventures of the legendary Captain Blackbeard. The Blackbeard’s Compass includes various riddles, each unlocking the next, ultimately leading…
The Escaporium: Area 51.5 | Review
Area 51.5 Review | Well known alien hunter and conspiracy theorist, Professor Ross Well lives at 51½ George Street. After years spent collecting, and hunting evidence of extra-terrestrial life, he…