Virtual Escape Rooms

Learn more about Remote Adventures!

What is a virtual escape room?

Virtual escape rooms are an interactive, online activity that uses digital items, like maps and locks, to simulate the fun of a physical escape room. Players collaborate over a video call to find clues, crack codes, and solve puzzles to progress and complete a mission.

How do we create Remote Adventures?

The team at our Adventure Factory in Nashville, TN, creates all of our games, both virtual and in real life. The creation process for Remote Adventures has been an especially collaborative one. First, game designers reworked our games to make them flow well on a digital platform. Then, developers built custom software to power the experience, including our digital dashboard and inventory system. Afterwards, graphic designers created the look and feel of the experience. From there, our Operations team worked to roll out Remote Adventures all over the country and train team members in our stores to be Hosts and Game Guides!

What differentiates your remote adventures from other virtual live camera escape rooms?

We think we’ve got the best virtual escape rooms in the world. Here’s why:

1. Your event is guided by a Host AND a Game Guide: You’ll have a Host to greet your team, explain how to play, and provide clues throughout the game. You’ll see their smiling faces on screen the entire time. Your Game Guide is streaming live in the room and will be your hands, feet, eyes, and ears in the room.
2. Our custom player dashboard: While you navigate the room, you’ll have access to helpful items in your digital dashboard. This dashboard is where you’ll view video messages including your mission video at the beginning of the game. You’ll also have access to 360 degree scans of every room that you can view independently. Most importantly, you’ll have access to your inventory. Your inventory houses the items that you find along the way and helps keep them organized. Once an item is in your inventory, you can inspect it more carefully. It might be important!
3. We’ve made changes to our games, clues, and elements to make the perfect digital experience. Our Game Team working at our Adventure Factory in Nashville considered every single moment of our escape rooms while they created virtual versions.
4. We’ve also added a few fun bells and whistles! From custom Zoom backgrounds to end-of-game team pictures, we’ve worked hard to add fun surprises throughout our virtual games.
5. Because we are using our physical escape rooms across the US, we can host huge groups of several hundred players at once. Your group might be hosted by team members from The Escape Game in 17 cities across the US, all at the same time!

Why did we make virtual versions of our games?

Remote Adventures were created during the COVID-19 lockdowns to give families, friends, and work teams the ability to connect and play one of our adventures from the comfort of their homes. Our virtual games are awesome for long distance game nights, virtual team building, and even a socially-distanced date night.

We have been so excited by the reception and feedback we’ve received so far. In fact, our Remote Adventure reviews and survey scores are as high as our in-store games!

When we set out to make online versions of our games, it was very important to us that the games still felt like a very full experience. We wanted to make sure that a Remote Adventure wasn’t just an escape room minus the immersion. We worked hard to explore what the internet would allow us to add to the experience that we can’t do in our stores.

We added a custom digital dashboard, 360 degree scans of the room, custom Zoom backgrounds, sound effects, and a lot of other fun surprises (with even more in development). And the best part? You can play a Remote Adventure with family and friends across the city, state, country, or world! All that to say, Remote Adventures are here to stay.

We’ve expanded our virtual offerings and launched Team Building Hub to even better suit the needs of our virtual and corporate guests. There, companies can easily book virtual team building events and activities!

P.S. Does my group need to be from the United States?

Nope! We actually host groups from all over the world and often have teams join us from India, England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Australia – pretty much everywhere! Game times are listed in US central time, but we can run games any time, day or night. If you don’t see a time that works for you on our booking platform, email us at Hello@TheEscapeGame.com.