Escape the Room

Escape the Room Escape Games or belong to the genre of adventure games. They are mostly browser games based on the Adobe Flash Platform, which are typically controlled by point -and-click.

Target

The objective of the game is to leave the place where you're trapped. The place is usually a room and consists of at least one locked door and some objects and hidden clues that lead to the solution. The player must these objects and objects often linked in order to get new items and clues and thus to progress one step further.

Construction

Most such games are played in the first-person view. The player has to click on the objects and interact with them. Many games have a short intro, which usually either text-only or a short scene to set up the story as the player is ever there. Some games also several rooms must be played in order to reach the goal.

Gameplay

The games require the player often a lot of patience, endurance, dexterity and logical thinking. It must usually also puzzles to be solved in order to arrive at codes or passwords and hints still must be interpreted correctly.

Walkthrough

In a wide variety of forums often Walkthroughs ( complete solutions ) are offered. These contain the necessary clues to solve.

Real -life versions

In Budapest since 2011 Para Park offers a real escape -the -room game in one of the many ruins cellar. Groups of 3-6 people are locked in a room and must be within one hour using the items they found in the room, open the exit door again. They are observed by a caregiver about cameras, which engages over a radio or with images on a monitor in the room when something wrong is done or the group does not come forward.

The idea, which has its origins in Asia, has been copied several times, so that now more than 30 games are offered solely in Budapest, and many more in other major cities of Hungary. Opened in 2012, Para Park a branch in Barcelona with the original from Budapest corresponding space, and Hinthunt, also a Hungarian company, a room in London. The rooms are advertised for entertainment as well as for team building events. First live Escape Game Escape offers in Cologne Germany team to two theme rooms both for companies and for individuals and tourists who are against each other can also be played simultaneously.

In parallel, originated in Bern Rooms Adventure, which follow a similar concept, but based on experiments, special initial sequences and offer a duel system. Similar margins were reconstructed under the same name in Lucerne and Ontario ( Canada).