whiteangela
109 escape rooms
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! The games themselves are quite complex, especially if you’re newer to Unlock’s style of mixing and matching inventories of cards to discover new cards. It ends up being not as intuitive in Alice, the hardest game in the set, since the rules are all but thrown out the window. That said, the games reference the source material: you get to solve a mystery in Sherlock and get game items in the retro game world. I especially liked how the Sherlock case felt like a fast escape room version of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. The required app is easy to use to input codes from and ask for hints. It also does neat things with the camera and AR. However again, when the rules are so broken and abstract like in Alice, it’s hard to even know if you’re following the logic correctly. It ends up being hard to ask for hints too since the app only gives numerical inputs for hints. 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.
