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Are you thinking about an escape room at home because you don’t feel like going out or because there are none near you?
Well, let’s take a closer look at this issue of an escape room at home and compare it with the original, physical escape rooms and MysterU rooms, so we can understand a little bit of the difference.
We start with the concept of an escape room. Escape rooms, as covered in several of our articles, are rooms where you are locked up and from which you must escape. Obviously, to do this you will have to solve puzzles, find the right combinations, and crack codes, all before the 60-minute time limit expires.
Given the success of this phenomenon that started in the late 1980s but then spread into the 1990s, it has reached its peak with the new millennium! In fact, numerous movies have inspired this type of game; you can find some of them here.
So far, we have talked about how escape rooms are physical places where you can play. Obviously, all the settings are carefully thought out and the details are therefore not left to chance, but are an integral part of the story being told through the game.
In this type of game, what you have to do is choose the location, and then an escape room close to you, (you can find some suggestions here), and go there physically. Keep in mind that reservations are very often required because these play sessions are so popular.
But what to do if they are not near you or you have already tried them all?
Here, then, is our topic for today: An escape room at home!
We must anticipate that a MysterU case is a kind of escape room at home, so you can start right from us and you can find our cases right here!
MysterU, in fact, mixes boxed games with escape rooms, creating something new and innovative, such as investigation in the open web. In fact, to solve our puzzles you will have to search for solutions all over the web, including on sites you consult every day. But in addition to this, you will have to sharpen all your observation techniques, thus learning to think outside the box.
Our products are compatible with any device, and what you need to play is a good Internet connection. Our special feature is that compared to normal escape rooms here, there is no time limit but you will manage it depending also on your free moments to play.
Because like real secret agents, our agency people have to take as much time as they see fit to close a case. One has never seen a spy who had to finish a job within an hour.
Anyway, as mentioned, playing an escape room at home is very easy and you can do it whenever you want because you will stay at home and you will not have to make reservations.
A major shift between escape rooms and home escape rooms was seen during the pandemic period. This is because of the various decrees issued at the time of COVID-19; gambling or entertainment halls such as escape rooms were being closed to the public.
Thus, like many other businesses, escape rooms, which have always seen an influx of people and thus revenue, have also found themselves penniless. So, they thought of some ways to get by and chose to make escape rooms at home.
These were nothing more than 60-minute game sessions, where a group of friends, would meet online in front of a computer to command a person physically on site. The Gamemaster was inside the room chosen by the group and had to follow the directions of the players at home and manage to get out within 60 minutes.
Understand well, that this mode loses much of the magic of the real escape room. Being physically in an escape room, touching objects, unlocking locks, and finding clues is the beautiful part of the game. This mode of escape rooms to make escape rooms at home has lapsed with the reopening and the end of the state of emergency.
Anyway, if you are fond of this genre, you can also try to make a DIY escape room at home.
What you need is first a story; choose a theme, such as adventure, horror, or fantasy, and then based on that, try to create puzzles or riddles. Hide the items you will need in the house and test the effectiveness of the escape room. This is to make the course of the game better, try to simulate the game you will play again with your friends. After that, you can go off and have fun, watching your friends try to solve your escape room at home!
In conclusion, if a DIY escape room at home doesn’t work for you, but you want to organize something at home, then drop by our site, and in our store, choose one of our products to make the most enjoyable, fun, and immersive home escape room you’ve ever made!
