Glitch Hunters: Mission Sunscreen [Outdoor]

clueQuest’s Glitch Hunters was a well-crafted outdoor escape game around Central London, contained fully within a slick web app. This game is truly playable on demand: there’s no need to pick up any physical components, and the route is fully outdoors and on public property that’s reasonably safe to traverse by day or night. With such a lower barrier to entry, Glitch Hunters would equally make a solid introduction to escape room-esque games for families or newer players, as well as an enjoyable way to combine sightseeing with light puzzling for visiting escape room enthusiasts.

The clues just got a bit samey after a while. Would recommend this more for a tourist than a local, as they could head in pubs along the way and discover the area.

Great treasure hunt

Our first outdoor escape experience and we really enjoyed it! I think I would even recommend it to people who are visiting London for a few days. It does a good job of taking you sightseeing through City of London and drawing attention to some of its landmarks: the Gherkin, the Sky Garden, the Shard, the Monument, Leadenhall Market and others. You can pause the game at any time and intersperse any other activities you would like to do in the area, and you can take as long as you want to complete it. The puzzles are not very difficult compared to normal escape rooms and just require noticing different patterns in the environments. The story is somewhat superfluous like I've come to expect from ClueQuest, but there is something amusingly postmodern about having a digital mouse and sheep tell you that the corporation and public institution buildings around you are not real. 🤖