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The Weeping Witch Combines Theater, Haunts, & Puzzles into a World Class Escape Room

September 3, 2022 By Taylor Winters In Cross Roads Escape Games, Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

I insert the crystal into the machine, and it whirrs and vibrates in recognition. Yet, my progress isn’t accepted by all in the room. The heads of the dolls begin to move on their own and the lights dim. I put my hand to my necklace and remember the strength it is meant to offer [...]

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Logic Locks’ Amsterdam Catacombs is a Virtual Descent into Horror

May 2, 2022 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

Before reading on, if you’re a horror fan and an escape room enthusiast, go book The Amsterdam Catacombs and survive this room. It’s easily my favorite remote, virtual escape room and one of the best escape rooms I’ve ever done. But if you need further convincing, read on. While Covid 19 separated so many of [...]

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The Secrets of Eliza’s Heart is an Online Escape Room with a Surprising Twist

April 30, 2022 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

“Can you see me?” The whispered voice asks over our Zoom call. “Yes,” we respond, a continent away. Her video illuminates, revealing a young woman dressed in adventurer’s garb, hiding on a stairwell. Yet, this is no ordinary descent down—the walls are ornamented with taxidermied spiders, various totems, and books. “In 1926, Elizabeth van Leeuwenhart [...]

13th Basement Parodies Horror Escape Rooms in the Best Way Possible

April 27, 2022 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

Are you a fan of excess locks in escape rooms? How about directional locks with just too many directions? Hidden blacklight writing that’s just… everywhere? Maybe even crawling, just for the sake of crawling? Well, if you are, then we have the perfect escape room for you. The 13th Basement by Exit Game OC. Trust [...]

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Escape Blair Witch is the Closest You’ll Get to Being in a Horror Movie

October 25, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Immersive Horror, Out of State Haunts, Review No Comments

The door is locked tight—protecting us from whoever, or whatever is outside. But there’s missing rangers out there—and now a missing search party—I need to find them. As I slide the last key into the padlock and it turns, the door inches open. Cold air rushes in, the smell of evergreens and pine follows closely [...]

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Dr. Jorg’s Lab by Infinity Escape Challenges us to Save The World from a Pandemic

October 21, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

We’ve all had enough of global pandemics. So, when I heard of Edward Grimm and his necro virus, I definitely wasn’t going to let it ruin another year of my life. Especially if it threatens to turn us all into flesh-eating zombies. General Howthorne has recruited me and my team because, well, we’re the best [...]

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The Evil Within Proves that Countyline Fright are Haunted House Experts

September 27, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Countyline Fright, Haunted House, Review No Comments

Countyline Fright’s The Evil Within is an elevated haunted house in Yucaipa, California that combines innovative scares within linear corridors. While the actual haunt is only fifteen to twenty minutes in length, there is plenty to marvel at—including gorgeous sets, scares coming from above and below, and even some rooms that require you to watch [...]

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Game On! Unlocked Arcade Escape Room is a Gamer’s Dream

September 2, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Review No Comments

The electronic jingles of arcade games, skeeball, and basketball fill the air, punctuating the silence between nostalgic tracks of Super Mario Bros, Sonic The Hedgehog, and The Legend of Zelda. The lights are dazzling, recalling memories of childhood wonder of playing my favorite arcade games. I have three yellow tickets in my hand, but I [...]

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Walking Shadow’s Reboot Administers a Virtual Turing Test

July 15, 2021 By Brian Moeller In Escape Rooms, Immersive Theater, Review No Comments

Cyberpunk literature, as a genre, ironically often aims to explore the basic question of what constitutes humanity, while set in a world overrun with synthetic articles. Could binary 1’s and 0’s ever become self-determining? Can something created for labor ever have valid desires beyond its purpose? What rights, if any, should something designed and created [...]

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MurderCo: Pure Evil Infuses Extreme Horror into an Escape Room Setting

June 22, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Extreme Haunts, Review 1 Comment

The best escape rooms immerse audiences in their worlds. Thus, the intersection of immersive horror and escape games was a logical extension of the genres, and a very successful one at that. From The Basement to Crossroads Escape Games’ The Hex Room, these rooms are always rated as top-tier games, even when put against non-horror [...]