2024 Upcoming Escape Game Releases

I’m writing this on April 12. As of right now, we’ve got two companies announcing releases of games in their brands (Exit and Unlock!), but nothing’s showing up on Amazon yet. Exit (Thames and Kosmos) has approximate dates and prices, but they’re going to miss the Spring target if they don’t start doing something soon.

Escape Games 159: Talking Tables – 01 – Escape from the Museum

Maker: Talking TablesTitle: Host Your OwnGame: Escape from the MuseumYear: 2023Price: $34.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: YesCipher types: Simple substitution, anagram, null letter, book codePlayers: 2-6Difficulty: UnratedRating: 3.5 of 5 (Box artwork and story (c) Talking Tables) About the company: British. From the About-Our Story page: “It was at her mother’s kitchen table, our founder Clare

Escape Games 158: Mysterious Package Company – 01 – Escape from: The Tinker’s Trap

Maker: Mysterious Package CompanyTitle: Escape from:Game: The Tinker’s TrapYear: 2020Price: $22Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher types: Mirror writing, simple substitution, steganography, null letterPlayers: 1-4Difficulty: UnratedRating: 4.5 of 5 (Box artwork and story (c) Mysterious Package Company) About the company: Not a lot to write about based on their website. They claim to have been established

Escape Games 157: Unlock! – W.A.F.F.’s Odyssey

Maker: Space CowboysTitle: Unlock!Game: W.A.F.F.’s OdysseyYear: 2024 (for the box set)Price: $36.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher types: SteganographyPlayers: 1-6Difficulty: 3 of 3Rating: 4.5 of 5 (Box artwork and story (c) Space Cowboys) W.A.F.F.’s Odyssey is the third of three games in the Extraordinary Adventures box set. As such, it’s marked as a difficulty of 3

Escape Games 156: Unlock! – Extraordinary Stories: Hollywood Confidential

Maker: Space CowboysTitle: Unlock!Game: Hollywood ConfidentialYear: 2024 (for the box set)Price: $36.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher types: Steganography and a word anagramPlayers: 1-6Difficulty: 2 of 3Rating: 3.5 (Box artwork and story (c) Space Cowboys) Hollywood Confidential is the second of three games in the Extraordinary Adventures box set. As such, it’s marked as a difficulty

Escape Games 155: Unlock! – Extraordinary Stories: Restart

Maker: Space CowboysTitle: Unlock!Game: RestartYear: 2024 (for the box set)Price: $36.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher types: SteganographyPlayers: 1-6Difficulty: 1 of 3Rating: 4.5 (Box artwork and story (c) Space Cowboys) Restart is the first of three games in the Extraordinary Adventures box set. As such, it’s marked as a difficulty of 1 out of 3. Note

Escape Game Review Status – Feb. – Mar., 2024

Long story short – I’ve run out of table top escape room games to review. Short story long – There are about 10 companies that have come out with table top escape room game brands over the last 6-7 years: Escape Room in a Box, Professor Puzzle, Deckscape, Escape Room: the Game, Exit, Unlock!, Think

Escape Games 153 Hasbro: The Illusionist’s Club

Title: Hasbro Clue/CluedoGame: The Illusionist’s ClubYear: 2023Price: $16.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher type: Steganography, invisible ink, mirror textDifficulty: 4 of 5Rating: 4 of 5 (Game artwork and story (c) Hasbro) This is the fifth of the Hasbro Clue-based escape room games available so far. It’s not really a spoiler to say that the culprit in

Escape Games 152: Space Cow: Unlock! Kids – Past Stories

Maker: Space CowboysTitle: Unlock! Kids – Stories from the PastGame: Strolls Through Prehistory, The Secrets of Hatsheput Queen of Egypt, Welcome to Golden TownYear: 2023 (for the box set)Price: $29.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher types: SteganographyPlayers: 1-4Difficulty: VariousRating: N/A (Box artwork and story (c) Space Cow) Space Cow has two children’s game sets out now,

Escape Games 150 Professor Puzzle 09: Escape from the Mall

Title: Professor PuzzleGame: Escape from the MallYear: 2021Price: $13.99Language: EnglishInternet access req’d?: NoCipher type: NothingDifficulty: UnratedRating: 3 of 5 (Game artwork and story (c) ProfessorPuzzle) There’s really nothing much to this game, which for the price is pretty disappointing. This is one of the smaller, portable games with a shorter 45-minute play time. The box