![]() So without further adieu, here are my top 10 picks of Game Festival games for the escape room connoisseur: The Steam Game Festival runs from the 3rd – 9th February and showcases a whole range of games from different genres (my company’s own game is there under ‘Racing’ – keep an eye out for Drive Buy!) If you spot any games you like the look of, you’ll be able to watch live streams with the creators, add to your wishlist for news, and in most cases – download a demo version of the game! Pretty much all you need to play them is a PC, and not even a particularly good one at that. The best part? Since this festival is the developer’s chance to put their best foot forward and showcase their games, you can play most of them for free. Why? It is absolutely PACKED with escape room games this year. One thing I’m extra excited to talk about on The Escape Roomer is the Steam Game Festival. All it means is that my horizons have been broadened- no, that’s not right… More like they’ve been totally blown open with all the amazing ‘escape room’ video games I’ve been exposed to lately. Does this mean this blog is now about videogames? Nahhh. It’s fun to escape from rooms with your friends, but I draw the line at trapping them in one.So here’s a bit of a life update for everyone who didn’t ask for it – in 2020 I transitioned away from working in the escape room industry into the video game industry. It even has a level editor if you’re keen to make your own escape rooms to test your friends. It manages to eliminate a lot of the friction that other escape room games suffer from and in doing so creates a much better parallel to real-life escape games. It may seem like a simple puzzle game, but Escape Simulator is a huge step forward for virtual escape rooms. You can all focus on the same puzzle or split up and do your own thing, and the game is flexible enough to accommodate you either way. Cooperation can still make puzzles faster and easier to solve, but there’s not a lot of room for quarterbacking. This turns out to be a strength because it allows everyone to explore and try to solve puzzles on their own. You can also see every player’s inventory on their belt, so it's easy to keep track of who has what item.Įscape Simulator can be played solo, and only a few puzzles are changed in multiplayer to accommodate multiple people. ![]() This way, multiple people can examine clues at the same time rather than passing it around until everyone has had a chance to look at it. If you approach them, you can join in on the examination and see exactly what they’re seeing, almost as if both players are sharing a screen. Anytime one person examines an object the rest of the players can see them holding that object up and manipulating it in 3D. Rather than implement an archaic trading system for passing items between players, Escape Simulator has a much smarter way of sharing inventories. That’s not so easy to do in a video game, especially once you start trying to manage five or more different objects at the same time. In real-life escape rooms, teams can gather around clues and objects to investigate them and try to come up with a solution together. Related: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Is The Perfect Game To End The Year While there are some straightforward puzzles here and there, there are plenty of head-scratchers in each room that will put your skills - and friendships - to the test. Fortunately, the rooms are much more than they seem. The rooms are surprisingly small, no more than 10x10 feet, which may give you the illusion that they’re easy to escape. The first five are Egypt-themed, then space, then a mansion, and finally a corporate office. Each level consists of five rooms that are thematically connected. Escape Simulator does a lot of things we’ve seen before from other escape room games, but it adds some clever mechanics that help support the cooperative nature of the game.
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