Nominee (2021)

An asteroid is about to hit the Earth! To avoid the worst in front of this emergency, only one option remains: join one of The Game Airspace station and sacrifice it by throwing it on the asteroid trajectory.

The stakes are high! Time is running out. A team of brave and cold-blood astronauts is needed.

Launching ready in 4,3,2,1...
If you are not afraid of travelling in space, this mission is about to be intense and challenging.

The Game

La Mission Spatiale [The Space Mission]

Escape room

I really really loved this room. It flowed nicely and was just an over all amazing experience with some challenges I’ve surprisingly never seen in an escape room.

Every puzzle was just hide and seek. There was no logic and nothing to figure out in the entire experience

A nice short room with some good puzzles, but where the story is not so strong.

The 2 player charades at the beginning were really nice and something we haven't seen before. The pipes puzzle right after was also cool. There is a team coordination puzzle which is intended for 3 people but is simplified with 2 in a way that isn't intuitive, so I think you should play the room in 3 if you can (there is also another reason for this). The rest of the puzzles were pretty simple except for the last one where we got a bit frustrated. You have to activate some sensors in order but if you activate any out of order the sequence resets. We kept passing in front of sensor 4 after activating sensor 1 and we thought we were doing something wrong with sensor 1. Actually, the problem was we hadn't quite grasped that they were sensors until after we solved it by some luck. The room does hint that they are sensors (there is a constant ticking in the control room from sensor 4 that suggests it) so that's mostly on us.

There is a twist at the end where you potentially have to sacrifice people if you have more than 2. Earlier in the game there is a moment where you jetison one of the 2 starting shuttles: one has capacity 2, the other 6, so if you pay attention to room details, you can avoid the Sophie's choice alltogether. The problem is that it's easy to glaze over this decision: I didn't pay close attention to the voiceline (it was short and not super loud) and didn't even register that we were jetisoning a shuttle when we pressed the button, and only found it out from the GM. You could design the room to draw more attention to this critical decision. Actually, a more general problem with the room is that the whole story with the asteroid is not very important: as far as I was concerned we could have been working towards anything else on the spaceship. 

I was also surprised by how short the room was. It definitely does feel like it's apt even for a 2 player experience, even if some aspects of it don't have 2 players in mind.

La Mission Spatiale [The Space Mission]

The Game - Cardinal Lemoine

Awards

Ratings

Reviews

Katome

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Shazam

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Game tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Accessibility

Easy to find location

Parking

BravePiglet

Editorial reviews

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