Room Escape Artist

At Room Escape Artist, we write about escape rooms 365 days a year. Here are the highlights from February 2024.

🤖 Did you know we like to share videos of animals and robots solving puzzles? This month we highlighted Robots Solving – Tilt Maze.

RECON 24 Speakers Announced

We’ve announced a number of RECON speakers this month, with many more RECON details announced soon. RECON will be in Los Angeles on August 18th & 19th, 2024. It’s the perfect time to buy your ticket.

Reviews

Escape Rooms

Treasure Island, Great Escape of Central Texas (Killeen, TX) – In this escape room each space on our journey was beautiful and interesting. (Review by Sarah Mendez)

Play-At-Home

Rise of the Fungi, Headlock Escape Rooms (remote avatar escape game) – This prequel to the beloved Keeper & The Fungus Among Us was an atypical avatar-led, live streamed escape game with music numbers and puppets. (Review by REA Hivemind)

Something Different

Review Changer: Escape The Greenroom “Reaction” – Escape the Greenroom on Dropout.tv. is a masterclass on how to make captivating tv out of an escape room. It’s a great episode of Game Changer! (By Theresa Piazza)

It’s Back: The Order of the Golden Scribe – The Golden Lock Award-winning The Order of the Golden Scribe returns to New York City February 10 – March 30, 2024. Tickets are on sale now. Read our original review here. (By Lisa Spira)

Podcast

REPOD Season 6 Key Moments, Editor’s Choice by Steve Ewing – This month, REPOD editor Steve Ewing complied his favorite moments from Season 6. Take a look! REPOD Season 7 will launch in March.

Recommendation Guides

• Updated: San Antonio, Texas

Commentary

Escape Room Leaderboards in 2024 – Leaderboards create a lot of problems for escape rooms. Here’s why we dislike them, and some ways to improve them. (By David Spira)

We covered Pax Unplugged (a convention focusing on tabletop and other analog gaming) in 2 parts: PAX Unplugged 2023: Exploring the Expo Hall and PAXU 2023: The Interactive Games (By Andrew Reynolds)