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1212 escape rooms
Novel Escape has one of my favorite premises: each of their games will be based on a different classic novel. Their premiere game is an adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a similar but more literarily anchored relative to the many Atlantis- and submarine-themed escape rooms out there. The game starts with a thematically rhyming intro – a welcome variant on the canonical escape room rules spiel – and though the game is quite light on tech, it manages to pack in some delightful and humorous moments of discovery throughout. Most of the puzzles were reasonably adapted to the remote medium, but certain perspective reveals and tactile actions still would be much more satisfying to solve in person.
