SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 10: “The Heist” room at The Escape Game in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Puzzle-filled escape room games ...

If you love solving puzzles, there’s a good chance you like escape rooms. The trouble with escape rooms, however, is that you need to leave your house to enjoy them. They can be costly, too, and you ...

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School demo is now free to play on Steam, offering a sneak peek at new puzzles. This sequel ...

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Imagine this. It’s a rainy Saturday night, and you’ve got your pals over for some board game fun. You pull out an escape room in a box, and everyone is intrigued – it’s something different, exciting ...

In A Rogue Escape you’ll be tasked with commandeering a steam-punky mech. But with no instruction manual, a dizzying array of levers and buttons before you, and nary a window to peer out of, figuring ...

Escape room games not only make for a fun night-in, but did you know that playing games actually has a ton of benefits for your mental health? Studies have shown that solving puzzles, like the riddles ...

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The immersive games are reinventing for online, at-home play — which is no surprise, an industry expert said: “These folks are deeply creative, and they’re scrappy.” By Alexis Soloski Hours after ...

Escape rooms have become an inescapable phenomenon, with more than 60 iterations of these immersive, locked-room puzzles sprinkled across the Bay Area and thousands more across the nation. There are ...