Escape the Island is an online escape game created in a collaboration between Gather and Raid the Room.
Format
Style of Play:
- Online native experience (can NOT be played IRL)
- Point-and-click
- Interactive NPCs
Who is it For?
- Puzzle lovers
- Could be a good choice for a mixed group of novice and experienced players
Required Equipment: computer with internet connection
Recommended Team Size: exactly 2 or exactly 4 players
Play Time: 60 minutes
Price: free
Booking: play at your leisure
Description
Each player is a character in a video game and controls their own on-screen character to solve a series of puzzles and escape being stranded on an island after a shipwreck.
Using Gather in an unusual non-proximity chat mode, players explore a pixel-art world and interact with puzzles by picking up and dropping items in specific locations.
The game has a 2-person and 4-person mode, effectively adjusting certain puzzles to require two or four collaborators to complete a puzzle.
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