Reviews

PostCurious: The Emerald Flame | Review

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.…

Lost Sock Studio: Escape from Mystwood Mansion | Review

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…

Mystery Guides: The Mystery of the Gunpowder Snitch (York) | Review

Moments before Guy Fawkes lit his fuse an anonymous letter tipped off the authorities and foiled his dastardly plot… Who wrote the letter? Nobody knows, but a dusty diary found beneath the floorboards of an old York pub could finally expose him, and this is where you come in… Date Played: August 2023 Time Taken: 3…

The Escape Room Enthusiast’s Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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…

6 Puzzle Game Jams in 2 Months with Astra (& everything I learned doing them)

(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…

Mysterious Package Company – Body of Evidence

Body of Evidence Review | From the devious minds at the Mysterious Package Company comes a new type of game: Body of Evidence. Dissect the clues in this grisly web of deception and intrigue. Body of Evidence will test your skills of observation, pattern recognition, and will push players to the cutting edge of a…

Bowness Escape Room: Down to the Wire | Review

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…

Escape Key: Plague | Review

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…

Scarlet Envelope: Holiday Greeting Cards | Review

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……

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