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The craziest thing that happened in October: Escape Immerse Explore Montreal 2025 sold out in pre-sale. That’s a first for us. But we’re working with the incredible Montreal companies to expand the event and create more tickets. Stay tuned for more information.

Escape Immerse Explore: Montreal 2025

This event will take place in June of 2025. Read all the details here.

If you missed out on tickets during pre-sale, and you want to attend, please add yourself to the waitlist. We are working on creating more tickets to this event and the waitlist will get access to tickets first.

Reviews

🔒 Golden Lock Winners

Botanist Manor, Escape Rush (Ixelles, Belgium) – Escape Rush went above and beyond to take escape room players on a wild adventure and they succeeded. Botanist Manor is something special. (Review by Lisa Spira)

Johanna, Escape Room Dorfen (Dorfen, Germany) – Escape Room Dorfen’s Johanna immersed us in an ethereal tale of ghostly love. It’s an atmospheric, puzzle-centric adventure. (Review by Matthew Stein)

Ministry of Lost Things: Lint Condition, PostCurious (tabletop) – Ministry of Lost Things is so incredibly cute! Back this kickstarter (there’s still time!) for a delightful, whimsical tabletop puzzle game. (Review by Lisa Spira)

Lost in Play (digital) – Lost in Play (point-and-click) offered super cute graphics, amazing sound design, whimsical fairytales, and innovative and fun mini-games. (Review by REA Hivemind)

Escape Rooms

Tomb Hunter, Finest Escape Bamberg (Bamberg, Germany) – With Tomb Hunter, Finest Escape Bamberg crafted a grandiose playground of physical exploration inspired by Lara Croft and Indiana Jones. (Review by Matthew Stein)

Play-At-Home

Squirrels Gone Wild (tabletop) – Squirrels Gone Wild is great for casual players, families, puzzle experts. Back this kickstarter (there’s still time!) for whimsy, modern references, and lots of squirrel puns. (Review by Sarah Willson)

Podcast

Exploding Onto Netflix: Elan Lee – Elan Lee return to REPOD as Season 8 premiere with an in-depth discussion on playtesting game explanations and rules.

Also, check out this month’s Spoilers Club Preview: Escape From Godot. The full episode is available to Patreon backers.

Recommendation Guides

• New: Overnight Stays
• Updated: Atlanta, GA & Philadelphia, PA

Commentary

Putting 1,200 Escape Rooms in Perspective – We’ve played a large number of escape rooms in nearly 11 years. Here, we reflect on dedication to this (and other) passions. (By David Spira)

The Tokyo Matrix – Sword Art Online – Anomaly Quest – The Tokyo Matrix’s inaugural game contains an array of physical and digital challenges in a novel format. (By Ryan Brady)

Also, this is your friendly reminder that TERPECA Nominations are due tonight!