Plunderer, as an example, becomes unlocked after robbing 10 shrines. Quests during play can unlock different explorer types.

Choose wisely, because every character also has abilities in the form of dice for combat and events. Each explorer comes with various companions to aid in their adventures. Players decide between explorers, The Big Game Hunter or Anthropologist, three difficulty levels, and consequences for death. CE2’s graphics are a gorgeous comic book-like hand-drawn style.ĬE2 adds an overarching story through its campaign as the player confronts important choices. Maschinen-Mensch’s Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based procedurally generated exploration game with a story, unlike the first Curious Expedition. It might be a hike, but The Dollhouse is worth a visit for experienced players interested in seeing how escape room designers embraced constraints and used their skills to create something brilliantly unusual.īook your hour with Curious Escape Rooms’ The Dollhouse, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.įull disclosure: Curious Escape Rooms comped our tickets for this game.Every new game is a story unexplored by the player, but not every game can hold my attention with unexpected absurdities and hilarious stories. It was a great beginner game.Ĭurious Escape Rooms is a little over an hour’s drive west of Boston, but also accessible by train. The beauty of The Dollhouse was playing around inside it.

Note that this room escape is playful and approachable for all audiences it is not creepy. The Dollhouse was a fun escape room that brought childhood memories to life through creative perspective and skillful use of technology. Should I play Curious Escape Rooms’ The Dollhouse? One puzzle overstayed its welcome and probably should have been broken up into a few smaller interactions. The Dollhouse involved moving more substantial setpieces than experienced players will generally feel comfortable with. While the aesthetic held together, some of the set could have been more thoroughly cleaned, especially considering the extent to which we had to scavenge. It was an unusual theme and it came to life, so to speak.Ī pair of particularly surprising moments added depth and made The Dollhouse pretty damn compelling. The Dollhouse manipulated perspective in unexpected ways. As a result of their ingenuity, they produced a unique game with some imaginative, yet budget-conscious innovation. The designers knew their strengths and steered into those skills when they conceptualized and constructed The Dollhouse. StandoutsĬurious Escape Rooms built this entire experience with a small budget and a lot of creativity. Many of the puzzles in The Dollhouse required substantial searching.Īs long as we had all the components, the puzzles made sense and flowed logically one to the next. The pretense for this excursion was secondary to the puzzle adventure in the world Curious Escape Rooms created, but that journey was magnificently child-like. Not mine… which was anal-retentively matched, but I certainly had friends with dollhouses that felt a lot like the one built by Curious Escape Rooms. The Dollhouse looked like the hodgepodge mess of furniture and toys that one would find in a kid’s dollhouse. In The Dollhouse we entered a life-size dollhouse.

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