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Reviews

Ministry of Lost Things: Lint Condition

Ministry of Lost Things: Lint Condition

PostCurious

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
SO FLIPPING CUTE!! I've been a huge fan of every single Postcurious puzzletale, and MOLT is a particularly adorable and whimsical addition to their catalog. It's impressive how many ahas (and puns) they packed into a small package, with sky-high levels of meticulous design and enthralling illustration throughout. Highly recommend, especially as a more accessible (but no less satisfying) entry point to the Postcurious lineup. I eagerly await future MOLT cases!
The Crate Gotham Challenge: Holiday Edition

The Crate Gotham Challenge: Holiday Edition - CLOSED

Great Gotham Challenge

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
With a dazzling array of puzzle types and presentations, this game included some truly memorable puzzle interactions. Layered solves were tightly integrated throughout a range of high-quality props and multisensory experiences. Individual puzzles were sufficiently compelling to demand our attention throughout the game, but the gameplay could have been elevated by a more continuous throughline or meta structure.
Humanity 2.0

Humanity 2.0

clueQuest - Print+Cut+Escape

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
This delightful print-and-play continues the same distinctive art style, cohesive storytelling, and whimsical video+digital content that solvers of the previous two episodes have come to know and love. While this episode had significantly less cutting than episode 2, I also felt it lacked some of the more impressive “wow” moments resulting from slightly more elaborate constructions that made the previous episode really shine. Nonetheless, Humanity 2.0 is brimming with diegetic tactile puzzles which make excellent use of the paper medium. As with the previous two episodes, this game vastly outpaces nearly every mass market escape-room-in-a-box in terms of both price and creativity.
Prison of Memories Part I.

Prison of Memories Part I.

clueQuest - Print+Cut+Escape

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
clueQuest has majorly stepped up their puzzle design game in Prison of Memories Part 1, with puzzles that are even more satisfying to solve, more diverse in mechanic, and more difficult (in a very good way!) than in any of their previous Print + Cut + Escape games. Presented through clueQuest’s eclectic, distinctive artistic style, this game immerses you in a fantastical reverie as it extends the alluring world and narrative threads established through all their other games.
Mechanics of the Heart

Mechanics of the Heart

clueQuest - Print+Cut+Escape

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
clueQuest never disappoints, and Mechanics of the Heart is a more beginner-friendly print-and-play adventure which is just as clever, creative, and polished as clueQuest’s more challenging offerings. The art style is alluring, the online interface was smooth and user friendly, and there was a good balance of aha and process puzzles. This is a perfect Valentine’s Day game for partners or friends, and it’ll be a fun hour-ish for both novice and more experienced puzzlers.
Operation E.G.G.

Operation E.G.G.

clueQuest - Print+Cut+Escape

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
This game eggs-eeded my eggs-pectations, and I think any-bunny would be hoppy playing it. Operation E.G.G. is whimsical in plot and was seasonally themed through an excess of egg and rabbit puns. I enjoyed the pre-game opportunity to lightly customize the digital script, and I could see that feature allowing for some particularly delightful moments for families playing this game. For me, Operation E.G.G. roughly ties with Mechanics of the Heart as the easiest of the clueQuest print-and-play games, though not in a bad way. The game is thoroughly enjoyable with a low barrier to entry. The puzzles were full of lovely little observational ahas and super smooth in process and flow.