Saudade – a Portuguese word with no real equivalent in English. It describes that peculiar emotional cocktail of love, longing, melancholy and nostalgia you feel when thinking of something or someone you’ve lost and can never fully get back. It’s no coincidence that Free City’s escape game in Hangzhou carries […]

Every great escape room trip also needs a critic, someone who is not completely enthusiastic about everything they see. Escape games is an established term in Finland,which is used as much as the word escape room. I am used to the fact that it is a game, not just an […]

We recently played Gateman, the eighth entry in Umeplay’s TAPE series, and it turned out to be one of the most memorable escape room experiences I’ve had. Umeplay’s TAPE series is part of the QUEST ART line of immersive escape rooms, combining cinematic storytelling with elaborately designed environments, theater, music, […]

We went to Soul House on the last night of our Shanghai’s trip, partly to celebrate the end of the Shanghai leg. Soul House opened during the summer and has been fully booked since, but luckily KK managed to get slot there for us. I had no idea what to […]

WHITE NIGHT, owned by The Second World, is one of Shanghai’s classic mechanical escape rooms and is still remembered by many players as both a benchmark for light-horror experiences and a representative title for large-scale mechanical design. The game is only around 280 square meters, but through moving classrooms, elevators, […]

In late 2023, UMEPLAY handed the Quest Art series (the “tapes”) to a designer who was a previous member of “westworld” (another series that now belongs to UMEPLAY also) and had never took part in the making of the Quest Art works. This shift in human resource brought us into […]

Introduction And invitation from Guerlain – which girl would say no to that. 😉 So we are taking a ship to a remote island, where a mysterious illness is spreading. Finding a cure becomes our mission, sending us on an imaginative journey through time to complete a recipe that could […]

When I looked at our China gamelist before our trip, Cindy Died 9 Times was one of the most interesting games based on the name alone. And when we went to play the game, I didnt’t have a clue, what kind of game it would be, but this time the […]

Minus 13 degrees Celsius, snow overalls, boots, helmets, knee and arm pads: not every escape room starts like this. The only thing missing was an ice axe, which would have come in handy at a few points during our expedition. Outside, it was still around 32 degrees Celsius and humid […]

After completing every Umeplay theme, I can confidently say that Reviver is, in my opinion, both the most challenging and the most fun “tape” Umeplay has to offer. In terms of horror, I’d say it’s only mildly scary, so even people who normally can’t handle horror very well should be […]