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  • Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy

    From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Jan 1 09:54:39 2024
    On 1/1/2024 8:10 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    It may be the start of a new year, but we've still got Free Games to announce! Today, on Epic, we receive:


    * Escape Academy
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/escape-academy-bfc2bf
    I never got the appeal of "escape room" games... but if
    you enjoy that sort of thing, then "Escape Academy"
    will probably be right up your alley. A first-person
    puzzler, played single-player or co-op, wrapped up in
    a nominal setting of 'teaching' you the secrets of
    escape. It's a fine game, I'm sure, but fairly niche
    in appeal. I can't say I like its art style, though.


    We'll see if tomorrow's game is more to my liking, because - like all
    the other recent Epic freebies - you only have 24 hours to claim this
    one.

    I picked it up. I'm not sure if I would like escape rooms. One of my
    friends wanted to do one. On the one hand, I don't like computer game
    puzzles, on the other playing a computer game of it might give me an
    idea if I'd like the real one. On the third hand, without the
    physicality and presence of friends, it isn't likely to give much of the
    full experience.


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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to kyonshi on Mon Jan 1 16:13:44 2024
    On 1/1/24 14:53, kyonshi wrote:
    On 1/1/2024 6:54 PM, Justisaur wrote:


    I picked it up.  I'm not sure if I would like escape rooms.  One of my
    friends wanted to do one.  On the one hand, I don't like computer game
    puzzles, on the other playing a computer game of it might give me an
    idea if I'd like the real one.  On the third hand, without the
    physicality and presence of friends, it isn't likely to give much of
    the full experience.


    Escape Rooms were quite nice when I tried them before, but not something
    I need to do all the time.
    Where I live in they also seemed to die a bit of a quick death after
    five girls died in a fire in an improperly set up escape room.
    Beforehand they were one of those things people did for company events, nowadays you don't even hear about them anymore. I guess most of them
    quickly went out of business after the tragedy. But corona also might
    have had something to do with that.

    Otherwise I agree with you, I don't really see the point in doing an
    escape room when it's not an actual room.

    I've never been in one. I think I used to be a fan of escape room games,
    but dont' care about them nowadays.
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Jan 16 23:14:40 2025
    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:11 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:


    Let's see what's trending on Epic. Oh look, a free game. I bet that
    none of you saw that coming. Good thing I'm so on-the-ball these days
    ;-)


    * Escape Academy
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/escape-academy-bfc2bf

    Also, apparently, it is a repeat game, first offered by Epic just over
    a year ago.

    <grumble> They could at least have thrown in some free DLC if they
    were doing a repeat...

    Ditto, but that would be greedy. /s ;)
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