Room Escape Artist

We’re a day late with this “best of the month” column, but yesterday we were busy celebrating the 2024 Golden Lock Awards! If you only read a few pieces from April, these are the ones to read. Most importantly, today is the last day to get special benefits with the purchase of a RECON ticket.

Special RECON Ticket Benefits Expire at Midnight!

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!) you need buy your RECON before midnight tonight. Buying your ticket today gets you priority session selection for these 2 RECON experiences.

2024 Golden Lock Award Winners

We just announced the 2024 Golden Lock Award winners. If you missed Tuesday night’s award ceremony, you can still watch it here.

Reviews

It’s hard to choose which reviews to highlight, especially from those that just won Golden Lock Awards… but we’ll do a geographic spread:

Escape Rooms

Click ‘N Glitch, The Escape Ventures (Port Charlotte, Florida) – This game took us on a nostalgia trip to the 1980s. It was a joyful and action-packed adventure. (Review by Matthew Stein)

Forest of Echoes, Next Level Escape (Sydney, Australia) – This game pulled off a subtly spectacular feat: sharing a small-stakes, personally meaningful narrative. (Review by Matthew Stein)

The Alchemist, Sherlocked (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – This is a magical, empowering game. (Review by Lisa Spira)

Podcast

Commentary

PAX East 2024: Celebrating Indie Games – We report on PAX East 2024: Metroidvania, Panels, and Industry Analysis. (By Andrew Reynolds)

The Best 3 & 4 Digit Number Locks For Escape Rooms – If you need to buy a lock for your escape room, this is the best option. We explain why. (By David Spira)

Plus, on April 1st, we published The Mind Goblin Experience.