Escape The 80’s is a boxed escape game by Gift Republic
The Plot
When an 80s throwback party goes wrong and you end up stuck in the 80s, will you have the skills to escape? Grab your leg warmers and shoulder pads and create your own at-home escape room! Answer puzzles and riddles to get back to the present.
The Game
The City Adventurers were keen to Escape To The Eighties, a game that promised to transport them back to their youth.
The instruction booklet lists 6 places to be visited during the game, each their own puzzle envelope. It suggests hiding the clues around the room as if you are visiting the mall. While we get the idea is to make it more like visiting each area of the Mall, and Trapped games use the idea to turn your room into an immersive escape game, we didn’t bother.
The story goes that we are hosting an 80’s throw back party. Our guests have arrived in fancy dress when we suddenly notice another guest dressed as Doc from Back to the Future. We follow him through the house and wind up in a very retro part of the building. We have mistakenly followed the Doc through a time machine!
Doc is angry to see us and says the only way to return to our own timeline is to solve the clues he has left around the place. If we answer the puzzles correctly we will get the telephone number to call for help. But get them wrong and we will be trapped in the 80’s forever. In a blinding flash of light the party disappears and we are suddenly at the Mall. The game begins…..
The puzzles were quite a mixed bag. Some were easier than others. Some were extremely time consuming. Annoyingly so. Each puzzle leads on to the next area to visit so its a linear game. For example, there were hold ups with the Sudoku puzzles, that can only be completed by a single player at a time. (Time to make tea and get the biscuits for everyone else).
An OK game but nothing outstanding.
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