Imagine this. It’s a rainy Saturday night, and you’ve got your pals over for some board game fun. You pull out an escape room in a box, and everyone is intrigued – it’s something different, exciting ...

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Publisher iam8bit and Skybound Games, and developer Coin Crew Games have announced Escape Academy, a puzzle game set in a school where students train to become the ultimate escapist. It will launch ...

The trick to a fun escape room is layers. For [doktorinjh]’s Spacecase, you start with an enigmatic aluminum briefcase and a NASA drawstring backpack. A gamemaster reads the intro speech to set the ...

We loved The Room, the beautifully crafted and absolutely mind-bending game that’s a mystery, puzzle, point-and-click, adventure and room escape game all rolled into one. Then came The Room Two and ...

Last year, I fell in love with Escape Academy the moment I first played it. I was instantly smitten by its well-constructed digital escape rooms, which were accessible and intuitive without being too ...

Players are seen in a screen grab taking on Puzzle Break’s “The Grimm Escape,” a new virtual game from the escape room creators. (Puzzle Break Image) When the coronavirus outbreak led to the ...

Neil Patrick Harris--yes, the actor--released Box One, a board game designed for solo players, at the tail end of 2020. The game earned rave reviews thanks to its premium design and mind-bending ...

PEOPLE WHO GET into escape rooms really get into escape rooms. Take David Linder and Christina Esteban. The couple has done more than 150 of them together so far, in multiple states and countries.

Being locked in a room and challenged to complete a series of devious puzzles created by a an all-seeing, all-hearing mastermind doesn't really sound like heaps of fun. In fact, numerous horror films ...