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…
Scarlet Envelope Returns with a Magical Two-Game Kickstarter
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…
A Ton of Puzzles: A Review of Room of One Hundred Puzzles
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…
Here are all the puzzles from EnigMarch 2025 (so far!)
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,…
The best escape rooms in Edinburgh
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…
The Escape Room Championship Announces Details for 2025
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…
A Weekend in Madrid: 10 Escape Rooms with Unboxd Experiential Events
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,…
Inside the World Escape Room Championship Finale
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…
The TERPECA voting season 2024 is here!
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…
4 Kickstarter Puzzle Games This November
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…
Meet David Staffell: Puzzle Game Design, Escape Rooms, and Beyond! | Interview
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…
The Centre for Immersive Arts – Preserving the History of Immersive Entertainment
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…
TERPECA announces new ambassador for the UK
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 New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering a $15,000 grant to puzzle game developers
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…
The Best Escape Room Games at the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase 2024
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…
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…
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…
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…