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Qualities of a good escape room

Escape rooms games refer to adventurous physical games where the players are locked in a room from which they try to escape or exit. It is an ideal game for team building activities. Essentially, the players are required to escape after accomplishing their particular mission or solving a series of puzzles. You can also use an escape room for your personal enjoyment.

 

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In addition to having logical or clever puzzles, a quality escape room should also ensure the puzzles are fun to solve. Players actually pay in order to enjoy solving the puzzles that are provided in the escape rooms and this is why they need to be interesting to solve. Ideally, puzzles involving teamwork, sound, electronics, tactile feedback, or the mechanics of the escape room are most ideal.

Extraordinary staging

An escape room should ideally look extraordinary; not just like any other room. This means that the owners should invest time, effort, and resources in order to make the escape room look exciting; akin to a stage in terms of interior decorations, lighting, and sound. Essentially, everything should fit the theme as well as time period. For instance, if the game in question requires a pre-historic setting, the room should not have blacklight flashlights.

Robustness

Escape room proprietors must always ensure that their escape rooms have more than enough for everyone to do throughout the day. Cramming too many people in can cause some players to have a bad experience, which can also destroy the reputation of a particular escape room. A good escape room company must, therefore, ensure that all the elements of the room, including key elements of the puzzles, remain looking new irrespective of the number of people who have used them.

Fair puzzle difficulty

The challenges that the players have to face should be intellectual rather than mechanical. For instance, if the difficulty of a puzzle is resulting from a lock that is difficult to use, then this is less than ideal and is not fun at all. Ideally, the puzzles should be designed to be solved. If players lose to their opponents, they should actually feel they have lost fairly rather that feeling they have been cheated of out their victory.

Themes

cave holesAll games in the escape room should have a theme because if it’s not there, no player will know why he or she is playing a particular game. Players need to be immersed in the game that they are playing because it makes them feel as part of the production cast. For instance, if you have always wanted to be an actor, participating in an escape room game can help you have an experience that is almost similar to the real thing.

Attentive game masters

The best escape rooms ensure that they have very attentive game masters. If you find a game master who is not following the game, it is a good indication that the escape game is of low quality. A good game master should be able to give you clues whenever you need them.

Conclusion

These are some of the most fundamental qualities of a good escape room that you need to look out for.