Category: Culture

If you weren’t looking for it, you might have missed a detail about these recent reviews:

• Lost in a Jigsaw: The Diagonal Maze Puzzle
• Expedition Escapes’ The List
• Captured LV Allentown’s Murder of 89
• Gnome & Raven’s Magic Lamp
• Puzzle Room Pittsburgh’s The Study

David and I didn’t write them.

Some of the REA Hivemind writers have started reviewing in-person escape rooms, and in one case, a tabletop product.

With more reviewers, Room Escape Artist can share more voices, and cover more experiences, across more of the US, than we’ve ever been able to do before.

For me, this is also a fun new editorial challenge. Luckily, these folks are a talented bunch of writers and we’ve had the benefit of a year plus to collaborate and train with them. (Sometimes that meant training David and me to work with new folks).

New Reviewers

All of these writers have their own bylined reviews publishing in July and/or August.

Listed in order of appearance:

• Fro
• Theresa Piazza
• Matthew Stein
• Kate Wastl
• Theresa W
• Sarah Mendez
• Andrew Reynolds

Additionally, Sarah Willson continues to review from Los Angeles, and Steve Ewing is currently editor for the Reality Escape Pod.

Non-Review Pieces

This month we also published Next Steps for Online Avatar Games by Darren Miller (new contributor) and Defining “Premium Escape Rooms” & Why It Matters by Richard Burns (who started writing for REA a little over a year ago.)

Additionally, all the Reality Escape Pod Show Notes are written by co-host Peih-Gee Law.

Early Access

Matthew and Theresa W had a wonderful time at Magic Lamp… so much so that we shared Matthew’s review with our Patreon backers before it published.

Patreon backers, you can expect more early access reviews in the future from places David and I haven’t even been!

Thank You!

Thank you for supporting us, and the entire Room Escape Artist team. You make this growth possible.

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll consider joining this wonderful group of supporters. 

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.

For more than 7 years, our community has helped us maintain our escape room map and directory. With all of the flux of recent months, this has been all the more critical.

There has been no shortage of closures, but there are also new escape room companies opening. We truly appreciate everyone who regularly writes to us with updates.

This is especially true of our Patreon community. Together, you submit so many directory updates, in addition to supporting us financially. It’s because of you that so many regions of the country are updated regularly. Thank you!

Submit Updates

If you want to help keep your region up to date, please take a look at our directory, and check your local area for:

• Newly opened facilities
• Permanently closed facilities
• Outdated information (changed URL, changed name, moved location)

Please contact us with any updates!

Thank you!

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll consider joining this wonderful group of supporters. Just click here!

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.