Top 25 Escape Board Games - Winter 2020
During the last quarter we have seen an increase in COVID-19 daily cases which again caused several businesses to shutter their doors. Hopefully mass vaccinations can knock things down in the next 3 to 6 months to allow businesses to fully reopen.
In the meantime, we have continued to play online escape room games and board games, including the games we ranked in the Top 25 Escape Board Games – Fall 2020. There are a great number of board game versions that allow you to bring this exciting and thrilling experience into your home.
We developed an approach to ranking escape tabletop/board games like that used for ranking escape room businesses. Instead of using Google, we used review data from Board Game Geek which has a large user base of game players and combined those ratings with Amazon reviews from the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and the UK. Average ratings by country are from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.co.uk. Click on the flags to visit these sites for each game to view current price, rating, and product availability.
The ETR value for money is a comparative value of price versus average rating across the escape room board games reviewed.
We looked at over 100 escape board games and are providing the top 25 here. This list includes escape games of several varieties including traditional escape room / puzzle solving, strategy games, escape to avoid a terrible fate, etc.
Several games entered the Top 25 for the first time. Notable moves up the list include Unlock! Epic Adventures (Up 27 spots), Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star (Up 19 spots), and Escape Room in a Box: The Walking Dead (Up 24 spots). The value in parentheses after the title indicates number of positions the game has moved since the last ranking.
More movement occurred than was expected. Typically, the averages from the Board Game Geek reviews fell slightly while the Amazon reviews improved. The Top 25 average rating increased from 4.358 to 4.490. The competition got stiffer resulting in some games falling in the ranking even though their average review increased.
So let’s get to the Top 25!
1. Escape from Iron Gate (-)
Publisher: The Escape Game
Average Rating: 4.650 (↑ 0.023)
Players: 3 – 8 | Playing Time: 45 – 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 13+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.7 | Giftable |  |
Virtually endless ways to play the game |
| 4.3 | Easy to learn | |
Easy to learn |
| 4.2 | ETR value for money | |
Mix of several types of games |
| 4.1 | For beginners |  |
Need to go online to get full directions |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: You and your “friends” have been wrongfully accused of a crime and don’t belong behind bars. You’ve made your case first to the judge, then to the warden, but no one is buying it. Looks like there’s only one path to freedom: a good, old-fashioned prison break! Well, today is the day – you’re going to make a run for it. The good news? One of you is going to make it out. The bad news? Only one of you is going to make it out. Your objective is to escape Iron Gate Prison by moving through each of the four areas on the board – from the Cellblock to The Yard, The Cafeteria, The Warden’s Office, then finally to freedom! In order to progress to the next area, you’ll need to turn in the items on your Gate Card to the Commissary. Items are collected by completing puzzles, drawing, acting, and trading. The player that passes through the Final Gate first wins.
2. Escape Adventures: Von Helden und Göttersagen (-)
Publisher: Frech Verlag GmbH
Average Rating: 4.600 (↑ 0.041)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 90 – 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 5.0 | ETR value for money | |
Exciting story |
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Great puzzles | ||
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Enjoying the book series | ||
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Puzzles too easy | ||
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| 4.6 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Open the first page, solve puzzle after puzzle and escape the escape room in ancient Greece. In this game you will meet mythical creatures from forgotten myths, false gods and epic heroes who are looking for your help. Will you stand by the philosophers and warriors and find the exit?
Play alone or with friends and solve all the puzzles before time runs out. Come across strange book pages and think outside the box. The book is written on, cut up and pasted on! The XXL mystery map will accompany you on your way through ancient Greece. But be careful, time may not be your greatest enemy!
The perfect family game and suitable for all age groups.
3. Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow’s Walk (-)
Publisher: Avalon Hill Games
Average Rating: 4.587 (↑ 0.112)
Players: 3 – 6 | Playing Time: 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.7 | Giftable | |
Never play same game twice |
| 4.5 | Amazon value for money | |
Great puzzles |
| 4.3 | ETR value for money | |
Love new floors and rooms |
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Gaps in the instructions | ||
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| 4.8 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: The house on the hill has a wicked reputation. Those who dare to darken its door often leave steeped in madness and despair — if they leave at all.
Now the horror reaches new heights with Widow’s Walk, the first-ever expansion for the critically acclaimed board game Betrayal at House on the Hill. The house is expanded with the addition of twenty new rooms, including the roof, a previously unexplored floor. Also in its halls you will find new monsters, items, omens, events, and fifty brand-new haunts, penned by lead developer Mike Selinker’s all-star cast of contributors from the world of gaming and entertainment. In Widow’s Walk, terror and panic are taken to a whole new level.
Enter if you dare. Exit if you can…
4. Unlock! Epic Adventures (↑27)
Publisher: Space Cowboys
Average Rating: 4.583 (↑ 0.478)
Players: 1 – 6 | Playing Time: 60-90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.8 | Easy to learn | |
Three games in one box |
| 4.3 | ETR value for money | |
Seamless integration with app |
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Great fun for a small group | ||
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Some cards and hints are nonsensical | ||
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| 4.7 |
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4.6 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: UNLOCK! Epic Adventures is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms. Across three new scenarios, players search rooms, combine objects, and solve puzzles! In ‘The Seventh Screening,’ players must survive a showing of “The Werewolf’s Final Night.” Then, players will earn the right to learn under Master Li of the Gold Dragon Temple in ‘The Dragon’s Seven Tests.’ And finally, ‘Mission #07’ tasks players with discovering the mole in the secret organization EAGLE.
The free UNLOCK! companion app runs each scenario, providing atmospheric sounds and music, a timer, clues, offering hints, confirming successes, and more!
5. Escape the Dark Castle: Blight of the Plague Lord (↑1)
Publisher: Themeborne Ltd.
Average Rating: 4.555 (↑0.114)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 20 – 45 Min. | Recommended Age: 14+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.4 | ETR value for money | |
Everything looks great |
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Excellent game system | ||
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Incredibly fun | ||
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Paper components need improvement | ||
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| 4.9 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: From the deepest, long-forgotten passageways to the vaulted eaves of the highest towers – there you will find his creation. For he is the plague Lord – a monstrous, sentient mass of Weeping pustules, proud emanator of an all-encompassing evil. It would be his most perverse pleasure to watch as you slowly succumb to the agonising Torment of the plague…
6. Resident Evil 2 – The Board Game (↓1)
Publisher: Steamforged Games Ltd.
Average Rating: 4.534 (↑0.088)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 90 – 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 14+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | Giftable | |
Everything looks amazing |
| 4.4 | Amazon value for money | |
Phenomenally fun to play |
| 4.0 | Easy to learn | |
Suspenseful |
| 4.0 | ETR value for money | |
Expensive |
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| 4.7 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: The Board Game is a co-operative survival horror board game for 1-4 players set in the rich and immersive Resident Evil universe. World-class miniatures and innovative new mechanics help deliver an experience that captures the essence of the much-loved video game, with players venturing into the zombie-infested streets and buildings of Raccoon City in a desperate fight to escape the nightmare!
7. Unlock!: Timeless Adventures (↑7)
Publisher: Space Cowboys
Average Rating: 4.517 (↑0.195)
Players: 1 – 6 | Playing Time: 60 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.3 | ETR value for money | |
Good collection of Unlocks |
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Good production level | ||
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Fun puzzles | ||
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Lack of puzzle solving | ||
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| 4.7 |
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4.6 |
4.4 |
4.6 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: UNLOCK! Timeless Adventures is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms. Across three new scenarios, players search rooms, combine objects, and solve puzzles! In “The Noside Show, ” The Diosen Circus is coming to town, but Professor Noside has prepared a great sabotage act! The show must go on, so players will need to stop him. In “Arsene Lupin and the Great White Diamond, ” players experience a jewel race in the early 20th century Paris and take up the challenge of Arsene Lupin. In “Lost in the Timewarp! , ” Professor Alcibiades Tempus’ time machine works erratically. Players must return the timeline to normal! The free UNLOCK! companion app runs each scenario, providing a timer, clues, offering hints, confirming successes, and more!
8. Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star (↑19)
Publisher: West End Games
Average Rating: 4.502 (↑0.283)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.2 | ETR value for money | |
Faithful repro of original |
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Rules are easy | ||
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Great fun | ||
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Made of thin cardboard | ||
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| 4.7 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Based on the original board game from Kenner released in 1977 and includes an exclusive Retro Collection Grand Moff Tarkin action figure. Re-live Star Wars moments as you help your favorite characters escape the Death Star trash compactor and work their way to the Rebel Base.Take on the challenge of helping Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca escape to freedom!
9. Escape Room: The Game – The Dentist (↑1)
Publisher: Identity Games International
Average Rating: 4.500 (↑0.146)
Players: 3 – 5 | Playing Time: 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 16+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.7 | ETR value for money | |
Super game series |
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Good riddles | ||
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Good storyline | ||
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Decoder needed | ||
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| 4.6 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Expansion for Escape Room The Game. Dr. Siènski, your dentist, has invited you for a check-up. With some reluctance you have accepted his invite and you find yourself in his dentist chair. Before you know it he put a cap on your face. The last thing you hear is a the voice of Dr. Siènski, who says he is going to administer some laughing gas so you won’t feel any pain when he puls your tooth. Then everything goes black around you …
10. Escape Room in a Box: The Walking Dead (↑24)
Publisher: Mattel
Average Rating: 4.495 (↑0.408)
Players: 4 – 8 | Playing Time: 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 13+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.1 | Giftable | |
Creative game design |
| 2.8 | For beginners | |
Clever puzzle |
| 4.3 | ETR value for money | |
Non-linear |
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Could use more refinement | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: The Walking Dead Escape Room in a Box takes players out of the box — they must team up to break INTO a room instead of out! The intense fun is perfect for a big party night or teen, family or adult game night with 4 to 8 people playing at a time. Why go out to an escape room when everyone can enjoy one right at home? Inspired by the action on AMC’s hit TV series The Walking Dead, a horde of undead “walkers” are out there looking for their next meal. Players must work as a team to open the door before they are silenced — forever! Each group has 90 minutes to solve the clues and puzzles and find their way into a much-needed sanctuary. Everyone must work together. Players may be tested in math, logic and more, and can use up to 5 hints while communicating with their group to solve all the mysteries. An exciting gift for fans ofThe Walking Dead ages 13 years and older, although prior knowledge of the show is not required to play. Puzzle sheets can be reprinted and repacked for repeat use!
11. Escape Adventures: Von Königen und Alchemisten (↓7)
Publisher: Frech Verlag GmbH
Average Rating: 4.482 (↑0.019)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 90 – 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.9 | ETR value for money | |
Very appealing graphics |
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High quality book | ||
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Well conceived | ||
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Ending too simple | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Family friendly escape game in a medieval setting. The story driven game includes solving puzzles as well as some deductive skills and offers a scoring at the end based in the age of the group and the used hints.
12. Exit The Game – The Enchanted Forest
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.481
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.8 | Value for money | |
Family-friendly game |
| 4.5 | ETR value for money | |
Great for beginners |
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Well designed game | ||
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Not as good as other Exit games | ||
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| 4.7 |
4.7 |
NA |
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4.7 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: As you are walking over a bridge, it unexpectedly disappears behind you, and you begin to encounter strange fairytale creatures and even stranger puzzles. What’s going on here — and how are you ever going to find your way out of this forest?
13. EXIT: Das Spiel – Die Känguru-Eskapaden (↑8)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.470 (↑0.187)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90+ Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
New twists |
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Challenging puzzles | ||
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Some unamused with humor | ||
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Illogical puzzles | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: EXIT: Das Spiel – Die Känguru-Eskapaden is a bit unusual compared to the other titles in this series as it revolves around your efforts to aid the kangaroo Schnuffies in its entrance test for an asocial network. Will you be able to make it in time? That’s not easy as it will request team spirit and a lateral thinking. This is an unusual EXIT adventure set in the world of Marc-Uwe Kling’s kangaroo trilogy! Like other titles in the series, EXIT: Das Spiel – Die Känguru-Eskapaden includes components meant to be folded, written upon, or torn, so it’s marketed as a single-use game.
14. Escape the Room: The Cursed Dollhouse (↓7)
Publisher: ThinkFun
Average Rating: 4.470 (↑0.071)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 13+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.2 | ETR value for money | |
Great family game |
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Website help | ||
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Good price | ||
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Too easy for experienced players | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Ever since his daughter went missing, old Mr. Garrity has become a recluse. You only see him walking to and from his shed. He stays out there more and more, and lately you’ve noticed strange lights coming from the shed at odd hours.
Recently, other local children have gone missing. Mr. Garrity must have something to do with it, and one night you decide to break into his shed. On a bench in the middle of the shed is a dollhouse glowing eerily. It calls to you, and ignoring your instincts, you move toward it…
In Escape the Room: The Cursed Dollhouse, players explore a mysterious three-dimensional dollhouse, solving puzzles in search of a way to escape. Five rooms, each containing objects to investigate and multiple puzzles to solve, will keep players engaged through two hours of play.
Escape the Room: The Cursed Dollhouse takes the in-home room escape to the next level with more challenging puzzles to solve, a longer playtime, and a unique three-dimensional experience that will satisfy even the most skilled escape room fans.
15. Exit: The Game – The Haunted Roller Coaster (↓3)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.463 (↑0.125)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | Amazon value for money | |
Unique riddles |
| 4.5 | Giftable | |
A blast! |
| 3.7 | For beginners | |
Great bargain |
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Harder than indicated |
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| 4.7 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Dark corridors, terrifying shrieks, bone-chilling monsters — sounds like a lot of fun, right? At least that’s what you thought when you decided to take a ride on the haunted roller coaster at the amusement park. But suddenly you are stuck in a really freaky place. The rider gates are locked tight in front of and behind you. You stumble upon a strange riddle. Can you summon up all your courage to solve the riddles and escape the haunted roller coaster?
16. Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion (↓1)
Publisher: usaopoly
Average Rating: 4.456 (↑0.149)
Players: 1 – 99 | Playing Time: 60 – 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.3 | ETR value for money | |
New concepts |
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Characters feel unique | ||
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Very fun | ||
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Not exactly aimed at kids | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Step into the roles of Scooby-Doo and the Mystery gang as you work to solve the mystery of Lady Fairmont’s ghost in Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Work together to decode over 50 clues and find your way out of the haunted mansion in this cooperative Coded Chronicles game, an officially licensed escape room board game great for Scooby-Doo fans. Coded Chronicles is an at-home escape room style game where players work together to unlock clues and solve puzzles by using a unique code revealing mechanic. Each game offers a unique storyline and objective to provide a one-of-a-kind game-play experience.
17. Escape Adventures: Von Drachen und Samurai (↑9)
Publisher: Frech Verlag GmbH
Average Rating: 4.451 (↑0.212)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.8 | ETR value for money | |
Nice puzzle fun |
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Great mood | ||
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Fun puzzles | ||
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Less thought out | ||
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| 4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Family friendly escape game in a feudal japanese setting. The story driven game includes solving puzzles as well as some deductive skills and offers a scoring at the end based in the age of the group and the used hints.
18. Escape the Dark Castle: Cult of the Death Knight (↓2)
Publisher: Themeborne Ltd.
Average Rating: 4.447 304 (↑0.143)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 20 – 45 Min. | Recommended Age: 14+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.4 | ETR value for money | |
Fantastic team building game |
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Good product quality | ||
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Kids like it | ||
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A little creepy | ||
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| 4.8 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Welcome prisoner, to a new era of the dark castle. The Death Knight himself, legendary swordsman and the one they call ‘Lord of decay’, has risen to prominence. The weak and the mindless flock to his banner, twisted by his dark influence into powerful, feral fanatics. They say he sends curses to crawl into the souls of the weary. Beware the curses, prisoner. Beware the Death Knight…
19. Unlock!: Heroic Adventures (↑4)
Publisher: Space Cowboys
Average Rating: 4.447 (↑0.191)
Players: 1 – 6 | Playing Time: 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.2 | ETR value for money | |
Fun for the whole family |
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Three terrific games | ||
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Creative | ||
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Individual games not sold separately | ||
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| 4.6 |
4.5 |
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4.5 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Introducing UNLOCK! Heroic Adventures, a brand new format for UNLOCK! in North America. This box includes 3 new Adventures. In Insert Coin, players must avoid “Game Over” by triumphing over multiple levels of video game adventures! Then in Sherlock Holmes – The Scarlet Thread of Murder, the master sleuth is on a very strange case and needs players’ help to solve the mystery. Finally, In Pursuit of the White Rabbit introduces players to Wonderlands’ weird inhabitants as they help Alice to escape in time! UNLOCK! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock, players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles. The free UNLOCK! companion app runs the timer while providing clues, offering hints, and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app, they win.
20. Exit: The Game – Theft on the Mississippi (↓12)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.442 (↑0.065)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.7 | Amazon value for money | |
Classic mystery novel |
| 3.0 | Easy to learn | |
Innovative |
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Challenging |
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Riddles less logical than other games | ||
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| 4.5 |
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4.4 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Can you solve the robbery on the Mississippi River? You’re a team of investigators traveling the Mississippi on a paddle-wheel steamboat in 1872. Last night there was a robbery. A successful businessman was carrying documents of inestimable value, and now they have disappeared! The captain has asked for your help in finding out who did it, but time is running out. Can you find the culprit before the riverboat docks in New Orleans and the thief escapes into the night? Work together and solve all the puzzles together as fast as you can! Difficulty: 3 of 5.
21. Exit: The Game – The House of Riddles (↓10)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.429 (↑0.086)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.5 | Amazon value for money | |
Great value |
| 4.5 | Giftable | |
Fun for the family |
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Excellent starting game |
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Not challenging for experienced players | ||
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| 4.6 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: A mysterious invitation leads you to a house of riddles. But when you arrive, you find everything looks abandoned. With a bang, the front door slams behind you. You are trapped! What’s going on here? Will you be able to crack the case and find your way out of the house?
22. Exit: The Game – The Stormy Flight (↓13)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.425 (↑0.053)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 60 – 120 Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Challenging |
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Fun experience | ||
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Fun for groups | ||
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Too many leaps in logic | ||
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| 4.4 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Team spirit, creativity, mystery and speed are in demand at EXIT: The Game – The Stormy Flight. The 1-4 players have little time to bring a complicated situation under control again: The players are part of the crew of a passenger plane headed to Barbados. Suddenly they get into the middle of an electrical storm. Water penetrates the machine and parts of the technology fail. Will the team be able to repair the aircraft and land safely? There is not much time left…
23. Exit: The Game – The Sinister Mansion (↓4)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.420 (↑0.126)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90+ Min. | Recommended Age: 12+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Challenging |
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Fun way to spend an hour | ||
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Great fun | ||
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Some puzzles were frustrating | ||
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| 4.5 |
4.5 |
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4.5 |
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4.5 |
4.4 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: You are invited to be a guest at a palatial mansion, but upon arrival, you find yourselves forced to take part in a macabre game. The clock is ticking, and there is not much time left to solve the puzzles. Can you escape the mansion before it’s too late?
24. Exit: The Game – The Mysterious Museum (↓11)
Publisher: Kosmos Games
Average Rating: 4.418 (↑0.086)
Players: 1 – 4 | Playing Time: 45 – 90 Min. | Recommended Age: 10+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.6 | ETR value for money | |
Great family night experience |
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Worth the money | ||
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Puzzles are linear | ||
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Can only play once | ||
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| 4.5 |
4.6 |
4.5 |
4.5 |
4.5 |
4.5 |
4.4 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: You are on a trip to the Florence natural History museum, intent on visiting the sunken treasure of the Santa Maria. Your relaxing day at the Museum is quickly derailed by an incredible adventure! Can you solve the mysteries of the Museum and find a way out?
25. Escape Room: The Game – The Legend of Redbeard’s Gold
Publisher: Identity Games International
Average Rating: 4.417
Players: 3 – 5 | Playing Time: 30 – 60 Min. | Recommended Age: 16+
| BREAKDOWN BY FEATURE | WHAT PLAYERS THINK | ||
| 4.5 | ETR value for money | |
Clever and thematic |
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Great entry-level game | ||
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Puzzles not too easy | ||
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English version may be unavailable | ||
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| 4.7 |
4.7 |
4.7 |
4.7 |
4.7 |
4.7 |
4.7 |
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GAME DESCRIPTION: Expansion for Escape Room The Game. Your heart pounds in your throat when you stand in front of the closed door of the captain’s cabin. Redbeard’s cabin. Don’t delay now. This is not the time to think about the risks and possible consequences. Shoot sailor. This is your chance to leave pirate life behind and start a new life.