Unlock! Heroic Adventures: Insert Coin

a far jump ahead from what i’ve experienced in the demos for this series. lots of pleasant surprises and a great beginners game into the franchise.

This set of Unlock! escape games featured 3 of my favorite themes: video games, Sherlock, and Alice in Wonderland. So it was a must play for me! I love the gaminess of it all. You get game items in the retro game world and can combine them. You fight enemies and bosses. There are also fun worlds and backdrops for each one, with nice references and in-jokes for gamers. Although this is the easiest game in the set of 3, it’s still pretty challenging in a rewarding sort of way. Definitely easier than the other 2 here, though. Overall, not the best Unlock! game to start with (oops for us) but a fun choice especially if you are a fan of the themes like I am.

This is the first set where Space Cowboys really begins stretching what is possible within the confines of an escape-room-in-a-box. Insert Coin and Sherlock Holmes both have some interesting new twists on the formula, and In Pursuit of the White Rabbit (the weakest of the set imo) still manages to pack a ton of surprises.