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Death has plagued the small city of Sunnyvale. Detectives were able to uncover a piece of evidence that has led to the true identity of the assassin. You never would have guessed it! The killer is no other than Nissassa, the most well-known modern artist to date!
We’ll need you to help take down Nissassa once and for all. It’s short notice but we have one agent already out there so you will be their intel. Unfortunately they weren’t our first choice but we have to work with what we have. You have ninety minutes…
This was voted top online escape room in 2020 by TERPECA (the Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts’ Choice Award) and (unsurprisingly!) it is now my new favourite online escape room, edging out Miss Edith and with Project Avatar in third. Fantastic concept, great puzzles, humour, tension, and above all two incredible actors - Agent Wolf, the earnestly naive agent who we were guiding through the mission, and Nissassa himself. Wolf was wearing a body cam and we didn’t actually see her until the end of the mission, but she was endearingly clueless and subtly helpful in equal measure; Nissassa was all too threateningly present throughout. We were on Zoom (six of us in total scattered across the country) and had a telescape window acting as a communal inventory, into which anything we discovered got put for closer examination. All the tech worked really well.
It is an escape room set - you start outside a building, staring at the door - but solving the puzzles in some cases takes you outside the game, to the internet and elsewhere, which really helped build the game world. There’s less improv than Edith, but still some, and the puzzles are satisfyingly art-themed.
And then there’s the twist. You find this out in the first few minutes, and it is in some of the reviews (as well as being alluded to in the game material above before I edited it back out) so it’s not necessarily unexpected, but I am going to put it under a spoiler cut.
( Spoiler. )
It’s a fantastic game. It’s dark and funny, and the final confrontation was agonisingly tense, especially as I’d lost track of time but knew we were getting close (we finished in 84 minutes). Apparently there’s a solve rate of 41%, so we all felt pleasantly chuffed and chatted happily with the actors for the debrief. It is probably the most expensive escape room I’ve done - flat fee of $US179 for the room, up to 8 players allowed - but I think it’s more than justified.
We’ll need you to help take down Nissassa once and for all. It’s short notice but we have one agent already out there so you will be their intel. Unfortunately they weren’t our first choice but we have to work with what we have. You have ninety minutes…
This was voted top online escape room in 2020 by TERPECA (the Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts’ Choice Award) and (unsurprisingly!) it is now my new favourite online escape room, edging out Miss Edith and with Project Avatar in third. Fantastic concept, great puzzles, humour, tension, and above all two incredible actors - Agent Wolf, the earnestly naive agent who we were guiding through the mission, and Nissassa himself. Wolf was wearing a body cam and we didn’t actually see her until the end of the mission, but she was endearingly clueless and subtly helpful in equal measure; Nissassa was all too threateningly present throughout. We were on Zoom (six of us in total scattered across the country) and had a telescape window acting as a communal inventory, into which anything we discovered got put for closer examination. All the tech worked really well.
It is an escape room set - you start outside a building, staring at the door - but solving the puzzles in some cases takes you outside the game, to the internet and elsewhere, which really helped build the game world. There’s less improv than Edith, but still some, and the puzzles are satisfyingly art-themed.
And then there’s the twist. You find this out in the first few minutes, and it is in some of the reviews (as well as being alluded to in the game material above before I edited it back out) so it’s not necessarily unexpected, but I am going to put it under a spoiler cut.
( Spoiler. )
It’s a fantastic game. It’s dark and funny, and the final confrontation was agonisingly tense, especially as I’d lost track of time but knew we were getting close (we finished in 84 minutes). Apparently there’s a solve rate of 41%, so we all felt pleasantly chuffed and chatted happily with the actors for the debrief. It is probably the most expensive escape room I’ve done - flat fee of $US179 for the room, up to 8 players allowed - but I think it’s more than justified.
