Room Escape Artist

This month has been a lot of RECON (so many awesome speakers announced!) and a lot of REPOD (season 7 launched!) but in between we reviewed a couple of phenomenal escape rooms and wrote a few in depth articles. We also updated a number of regional recommendations guides. We’ve been busy over here! Check out the highlights.

How to Get RECON 24 Priority Session Selection

RECON 24 features 2 quintessential Los Angeles experiences coming on-site to our RECON venue: Imagi-Ne’er-Do-Wells & The 49 Boxes. Everyone will take part in both experiences… but if you want to select when you play (and who you play with!) all you need to do is buy your RECON 24 ticket by May 1st, 2024.

Los Angeles

In advance of RECON, we updated the Los Angeles Recommendation Guide and released a Peih-Gee’s Playhouse, The LA Edition on REPOD.

Reviews

Escape Rooms

🌶️ Escape The Room’s The Office… 10 Years Later… A Personal Journey – No one should be paying to play this tired relic. (By David Spira)

Inksidious, Escape Room 66 (Los Angeles, CA) – There was more to Inksidious than it appeared at first glance. The set, story, and gameplay created wow moments. (Review by Cindi Saiewitz)

Seed of Hope, The Sanctuary Escape (Oklahoma City, OK) – Each room was so intentionally designed that we could interpret story elements immediately. (Review by Cindi Saiewitz)

Podcast

REPOD S7E3 – Kooky and Creative Networking: Brett Jackson, Creator of Imagi-Ne’er Do-Wells – This is one of the best REPOD episodes we’ve ever produced. Please give it a listen.

Recommendation Guides

• New: London
• Updated: Amsterdam, Berlin

Commentary

How to Vet an Immersive Experience: Insights from the Willy’s Chocolate Experience Disaster – This was a disaster full of red flags. (By Ryan Brady)

Let Escape Room Players Be Normal People – The best way to give players an extraordinary escape room adventure is to cast them as themselves. Here’s why it works. (By Richard Burns)