Escape from the Lockdown: The Strange Village is a digital puzzle game created specifically for online play by Real Escape Games by SCRAP, based in Japan.
To learn more about SCRAP, the first escape room company, check out our interview with them from earlier this week.
Format
Style of Play: audio-visual experience with puzzle hunt-style puzzles
Required Equipment: computer with internet connection, a pen and paper is also recommended
Recommended Team Size: 2-3
Play Time: unlimited playtime; our reviewers took 1.5 – 3 hours
Price: $27 per ticket
Booking: purchase and play at your leisure
Description
The game consists of “daily” briefing videos where players learn about the game’s characters and their actions. Keeping track of who did what is part of the game play. In between the video segments are short rounds of puzzle book-style puzzles. Everything adds to the information needed to solve the narrative metapuzzle.
Note that the game takes some time because it includes about 45+ minutes of video footage.