School For Spies

Developed as a pivot during the early days of shelter-in-place, I thought this game knocked it out of the park! I think that when I envisioned a virtual escape room experience, my mind darted to one of two things — either a VR-esque self-contained game experience OR watching a GM with a GoPro walk through a physical room while you speak commands (remember those early pandemic days..?). But this game was so well thought out — the files and pages you interacted with online were crafted to mix using their own documentation paired with the internet (i.e. Google Maps, for instance) in tandem to piece everything together and figure out the appropriate solution. I found it to be an ingenious way of incorporating the use of Internet resources that are already there and integrating them into some of the room’s clues, which strongly stayed on theme the entire time. I was very impressed!