Room Escape Artist

At the beginning of last year I wrote a lengthy aspirational list of games that we hoped to play in 2019. At the request of one of our Patreon supporters, I’m going to take a look back at that list, see what kind of dent we put into it, and add new games that are on our radar.

How’d We Do in 2019?

Of the 11 new games from companies that we’ve visited in the past, we visited 3:

• Escape Extinction: Sharks from Escape My Room
• The Dome from Escape Room Nederland
• Sherlock: The Game is Now from Time Run

We were supposed to play 13th Gate’s Asylum… but a hurricane thwarted our plans. Sigh.

Of the 14 unfamiliar companies on the list, we visited 4:

• Enchambered – Sacramento, CA
• Escaparium – Montreal, Canada
• Kamer 237 – Volkel, Netherlands
• Skurrilum – Hamburg, Germany

At two of these companies, we played Golden Lock Award-winning games!

In all cases, we played all of the most highly recommended games at the companies… no regrets!

Of the 4 new countries that we were hoping to visit in 2019… we visited exactly zero of them.

2020 Wishlist

I’m going to use the same breakdown as last year, and include all of the games and places that we didn’t visit. New 2020 additions will appear in bold.

New Games, Familiar Companies

• 13th Gate Escape’s The Asylum –Baton Rouge, LA
• 60 Minute Escape’s Frankenstein – Murfreesboro, TN
• Cross Roads Escape Games’ Psych Ward – Anaheim,CA
• Doldrick’s Escape Rooms Spoopy’s Ghoulish Graveyard Gameshow! – Orlando, FL
• Escape City Buffalo’s The Hangover – Tonawanda, NY
• Hatch Escape’s The Ladder – Los Angeles, CA (when it opens)
• Locurio’s The Storykeeper – Seattle, WA
• Michigan Escape Room’s Vampire Cabin Clinton Township, MI (when it opens)
• The Escape Game’s Ruins: Forbidden Treasure & White Noise
• The Room’s Brandon Darkmoor – Berlin, Germany
• Trap’t’s Tremors On The Tracks – Stamford, CT (when it opens)
• And whatever Strange Bird Immersive’s next game is

Unfamiliar Companies

• Bewilder Box – Brighton, UK
• Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space – Urbana, IL
• Clue IQ – Frederick, MD
• Crime Runners – Vienna, Austria
• Cyber Racoon – Falls Church, VA (how great is that name?)
• Edge of Escape – Zion, IL
• Enter The Imaginarium – Pittsburgh, PA
• Enter/Locked – Jackson, MS
• Escape Room Herndon – Herndon, VA
• Immersia – Montreal, Canada
• Locked In Edinburgh – Edinburgh, UK
• Maine Escape Games – Portland, ME
• MindTrap Escape Rooms – Murrieta, CA
• Myss Tic Rooms – New York, NY (if they are able to reopen)
• Mystery Mansion Escape – Little Rock, AR
• Nick of Time Escapes – Swain, NY
• Olde City Escape Games – Philadelphia, PA
• Paradox Project – Athens, Greece
• Pier Pressure – Brighton, UK
• Ravenchase Adventures – Richmond, VA
• The Chamber – Prague, Czech Republic
• The Sanctuary – Oklahoma City, OK
• Xscapes – Binghamton, NY (to play their licensed Twilight Zone room)

New Travel Destinations

• Athens, Greece
• Barcelona, Spain
• Beijing & Shanghai, China
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris, France
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Tel Aviv, Israel

Recommendations Welcome

If you have additional recommendations that should be on this list, please add them in the comments! (Please note if you’re recommending your own game.)