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Unlock

Escape Adventures

Space Cowboys, too, could not pass on the new hype of Escape Room games and has, with Unlock Escape Room Adventures, provided a new version for the genre, this time in combination with a mandatory App and only cards for components, played in real-time.

As in all those games, you explore scenes and settings, discover clues, combine objects and solve puzzles to find codes, all within 60 minutes. Numbers and letters in a circle always indicate cards that you have to extract from the stack and reveal - there are objects, also for combination with others, machines for using/handling, cards that ask for a code and cards for locations, results, penalties or modifications. The use of the App is mandatory, codes for progress must be entered into the App. The game also comes with a 10-card tutorial. Escape Adventures provides three scenarios of 60 cards each:

Die Formel is an Escape Room type adventure, in a secret lab you must save a serum. In der Mausefalle -a classic Point & Click experience, you must counteract the plans of Dr. Noside. The third adventure, for experienced players only, is Die Insel des Doktor Goorse - you visit an eccentric collector and must escape his traps. All adventures are intended for cooperative play; you can, however, play the scenarios Die Formel and In der Mausefalle also in solitaire mode.

Unlock works very well, using only app and cards, no additional components are necessary, and nothing is destroyed, so that the game can be replayed anytime. All in all, a well-done challenge for all fans of Escape Room games, featuring cleverly made, but sometimes very difficult puzzles.

Players: 2-6

Age:10+

Time:60+

Designer: Cyril Demaegd, Alice Carroll, Thomas Cauët

Artist: Pierre Santamaria, Legruth, Florian de Gesincourt

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Space Cowboys / Asmodee 2017

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Escape Room, cooperative

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr + 10 more languages

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Re-playable, no one-way components

App works well

Some puzzles are very difficult

Compares to:

EXIT and other Escape Room versions

Other editions:

From nine more companies in a total of 13 languages

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue):  

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0