One Week in Germany: 14 Escape Rooms with Unboxd Experiential Events
David: Towards the end of last year, I returned from a trip to Madrid where I had just completed my first Unboxd escape room tour. I wrote about the amazing…
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David: Towards the end of last year, I returned from a trip to Madrid where I had just completed my first Unboxd escape room tour. I wrote about the amazing…
After five years of crafting story-driven mysteries, the creators at Scarlet Envelope are back with their most ambitious project yet. Medieval Puzzle Tales is a Kickstarter campaign featuring two epic…
Room of One Hundred Puzzles is a brand-new escape-room-style experience from Rogue Productions, the brainchild of escape room industry veteran Dean Rodgers (who also happens to be the newly hired…
EnigMarch is once again here! A month long challenge for designing puzzles. As an enjoyer and a puzzle designer… I’m sold! Whether you’re following along as a designer or solver,…
It’s official, I’ve played all the escape rooms in Edinburgh – well, at least as of my time of writing this! Thankfully new and even more brilliant rooms are popping…
In a recent post and email newsletter, the team behind the World Escape Room Championship (or ER Champ for short) have unveiled some of the details for the upcoming 2025…
I recently had the excellent fortune of taking part in an Escape Room tour of Madrid, organised by the wonderful people over at www.unboxd.com. Ten Escape Rooms over a weekend,…
If you think you’re fast at solving escape rooms, then there’s really only one place to put your skills to the test: The World Escape Room Championship. Organised by Lock…
It’s that time of the year again, TERPECA season is well under way and voting is now open! But first, what is TERPECA? The Top Escape Rooms Project is an…
Since the lockdown (which, if you want to feel really old, started almost a whole 5 years ago by the way) we’ve seen fewer and fewer puzzle game Kickstarters and…
We’re thrilled to introduce the newest writer, David Staffell! 🎉 As a seasoned escape room designer best known for his work at Bewilder Box, David brings a wealth of knowledge…
In a recent announcement from Portland-based escape room designer, Laura E. Hall, the Centre for Immersive Arts (CFIA) has opened. The CFIA is dedicated to collaboratively preserving the history of…
So this piece of news is an exciting two-fer: It’s both about the UK escape industry, and also deeply personal to us here at The Escape Roomer. We’re incredibly excited…
Draknek & Friends has announced the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant will be returning in 2024. The new grant opportunity seeks to support a cohort of developers from traditionally underrepresented…
It’s that time of the year again! And no, I don’t mean Christmas… But you’d be forgiven for thinking it was, for the amount of new games that have magically…
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…
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…
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,…
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…