David Spira

1 week ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

Hide & Seek LootLocation:  Athens, GreeceDate Played: February 2, 2025Team size: 2-6; we recommend 3-4Duration: 120 minutesPrice: from 60€ per player for teams of 2 to 28€ per player for teams of 6Ticketing: Private Accessibility Consideration:  Players needs to be able to go up and down stairs and crawl. There is also a strobe light. Emergency Exit Rating: We were locked in various spaces within the game. We’re unsure what fire escape measures there were, if any.

1 week ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

We’ve never done a May the Fourth post here, and it probably won’t be a tradition… but a few weeks ago a Star Wars Fan Film was released for free on YouTube featuring past RECON speakers, Charlie Bond and James Hamer-Morton of Deadlocked Escape Rooms in Reading, England. Echoes of Darkness: A Star Wars Fan Film is a ~30 minute film and it’s pretty great. Narratively, it feels like it exists in the space between Star Wars and Firefly, while the story is firmly placed in Star Wars mythology.

1 week ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

A game with an AsterixLocation:  Athens, GreeceDate Played: February 1, 2025Team size: 2-5; we recommend 2-4Duration: 105 minutes Price: from 27€ per player for teams of 2 to 20€ per player for teams of 5Ticketing: Private Accessibility Consideration:  Players need to crawl. One player needs to go up steps. There is some fog. Emergency Exit Rating: We’re unsure what fire escape measures there were, if any.

2 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

“…help with this whole proliferation of evil situation.”Location:  at homeDate Played:  February 2025Team size: 1 or more; we recommend 2-4, but it’s really best as 3Duration: 12+ hoursPrice: about $65 on Kickstarter for the main game, plus additional rewards at higher tiers“Pandora’s Legacy was as beautiful as it was ambitious. It delivered an incredible time by blending jigsaw puzzling with a wide variety of other puzzles – all set against the backdrop of Greek myth.

2 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

A surprising criticism that we’ve found ourselves saying over and over again is that the game’s rules don’t match the way the game plays. In other words, the gamemaster told us in the briefing, “Don’t do X,” but at some point in the game, we had to do X. Some common examples include: “Don’t use more than two fingers worth of strength,” but we had to use a lot of force to open something. “You’ll never have to use anything more than once,” but we needed to use a blacklight multiple times.