We are very happy and excited to have made it to the final rounds of the escapetogether.ch Championship! We’ll be looking forward to the next round and also congratulations to the 7 other teams!
Escape Together Championship – the finalists
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Abduction 3 – The Exam
Usually, escape rooms are there to exercise your mind and your wit but this particular room does more than that. Not only your brain cells will start sweating but your body might get out of breath pretty soon as well. And how much fun that is!
Without spoiling too much of what is inside the room: You will laugh, you will pant and you will have moments of thinking “wait, we’re actually meant to do that???” This room has definitely gone up and beyond of what escape rooms can do to you physically and it has done it very well.
The only criticism we could think of is the naming of this company. There have to be better names than Abduction 1, 2, 3 and 4 for your rooms? But anyways, in the end, the name doesn’t really matter and the only thing you will remember is who gets to take the shirt home.
Badalona, Barcelona
The Ticking Heart – Inside Breakout ZUG
We are taking part in the escapetogether.ch Championship and had such a great time so far. However, one thing we noticed is that the rooms that are participating are of a very varying quality, which of course makes sense given all the different styles and topics that the companies offer.
The best room that we’ve played for the championship so far has definitely been The Ticking Heart by Inside Breakout. It’s so refreshing when everything just works, the gming is amazing and the room is fun yet still very challenging.
Unfortunately, we had a few occasions where things didn’t work as intended in other rooms such as electronics malfunctioning or a GM not paying attention to what we were doing but nothing of the like happened go us at Inside Breakout. This is how escape rooms should be done! Even if you don’t participate in the Championship, go try out their rooms. We are very excited to go back some day and play the other room they offer.
A beautiful story that reveals itself through the solving of puzzles, highly narrative oriented. This is the perfect room to get started with escape rooms.
Zug, Switzerland
Darkness – Maximum Escape
This picture is quite dark but that is actually very fitting. Because the room Oscuridad by Maximum Escape is played in complete and absolute darkness. That fact alone makes for a very unique experience.
Inside the room, you have nothing but your sense of touch and hearing to guide you. And even though this room is not a scary one, the fact that you’re unable to see creates quite a strong feeling of unease.
However, the designers have put their all into it to guide you through the room safely and make you have lots of fun on the way. Therefore: Take courage and venture forth into the darkness!
Barcelona
Chapter 1-3 – Crime Runners
The unique things about the three rooms ‘The dark secret of the congressman’ (chap. 1), ‘Crime Scene: Back alley’ (chap. 2) and ‘Patient Zero’ (chap. 3) is that they are all part of the same story.
Chapter 1 starts out in the mansion of a missing congressman, and your mission is to find out all you can about the shady business he was involved with. The clues you find take you into a back alley, where a murder has taken place (chapter 2). Here you find out about a mysterious laboratory, where it all started, and where you will go during chapter 3 to end the terrible threat to mankind that has arisen from there…
All three rooms can be played separately and in any order, but the story probably is best experienced if you start with chapter 1 and end with chapter 3. All rooms are really done well thematically, with ‘Patient Zero’ standing out specifically. Cool riddles, unique usage of recordings to tell a story and progress advancement in the rooms as well as a lot of love for details make all rooms really special and enjoyable. We definitely recommend visiting these rooms if you visit Vienna / live here and enjoy escape rooms!
Chapter 1: The dark secret of the congressman
Theme: 6.5/10
Puzzles: 6.5/10
Scary: 1.5/10
Score: 7.5/10
Chapter 2: Crime Scene: Back alley
Theme: 7/10
Puzzles: 6/10
Scary: 1/10
Score: 7/10
Chapter 3: Patient Zero
Theme: 9/10
Puzzles: 8.5/10
Scary: 4/10 (scary theme)
Score: 9/10
Vienna, Austria
Apophis – Vortex Escape
Powerful and shocking room where there is one! Save the world from an asteroid named after the God of Chaos from wiping humanity- cliche, but wait! A start in a yet-another-office (our nemesis!) ramps up at the speed of light, each step and riddle gets better. I love when rooms have unique creative ideas and this one… does! The room quickly accelerates from an average beginning to become one of my favorite ones!
The GM was very friendly, doing us a walkthrough of how things work internally. Even a behind-the-scenes look that left us wowed and made us appreciate the amount of work behind this. One of the few GM’s in BCN I’ve heard comfortably speak catalan to us. Marc and Pol have put tremendous effort doing everything themselves – and not only can they build sound mechanisms and mouth-watering riddles but have a cohesive progression through the room.
Must visit in Barcelona! Hopefully they have time to finish (or let us test :p) the next one next summer when we visit again!
Barcelona