Thames & Kosmos Present New Escape Challenges
August 3, 2017 by thisisazrael
As Ben wrote earlier this Summer, EXIT: The Game was awarded the Kennerspiel des Jahres, the best "expert game" of 2017.
Thames & Kosmos have wasted no time capitalising on the accolade by announcing the release of three new EXIT scenarios for you and your friends to work through.
In The Forbidden Castle, you'll play as hikers trapped inside a strange castle trying to find your way out. This challenge though is full of riddles and freedom may not be in the direction that players first think.
In The Forgotten Island, you'll find yourselves in the direst of situations as you end up shipwrecked with the only hope for escape, a chained up boat. It turns out a mysterious owner has left puzzles around the island leading, hopefully, to the boat's release and escape.
Reminding me very much of Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, players in The Polar Station have been left behind during a frantic evacuation. With only one hour to crack the lock program, a single code stands between them and being trapped for good.
As a cheap at home form of entertainment, I am very much behind the current batches of escape room games we are seeing. I know Warren picked up EXIT: The Game – The Pharaoh's Tomb for his holidays and we have talked about getting it into the office.
Would you like to see a Let's Play of us all scratching our heads and high-fiving for solving the easiest of puzzles?
"This challenge though is full of riddles and freedom may not be in the direction that players first think..."
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If you like a good bit of thinking this is your type of game. You can play it only once but as you usually dont have to damage components you can give the game to friends after you played through it. And they are pretty cheap for what you get imho.
I played The Forgotten Island and The Polar Station – also whilst on holiday –
and enjoyed both very much. The Puzzles are all quite different to each other,
with the background themes and narrative nicely realised.
It just seems a real shame to have have no further use for two boxes of nicely
Designed cards and Game Materials after you have finished…
Even so, I hope they do a Zombie apocalypse EXIT game.
Anyone played Escape The Room? I think it is from Norris
Games. Again, nice looking graphics and interesting themes.