Once again this year Christmas could have a particular taste… To try to compensate for this, we decided to make you travel, to take you to another universe. We have thought about the best option and the solution will please you: once again board games! More precisely the escape game games, more and more sought after and realistic these games take you into a totally different universe where success depends on your capacity for immersion. To give you the best advice, here is our top escape game board games to give away for Christmas!
Detective, a true modern investigation!
We start with the 2019 Ace d’Or expert, Detective is one of the most recognized escape games by players. Realistic and captivating, you will dive into exciting surveys with the help of your web database!
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Detective is a game that is easy to understand and use. You are agents of Antares and you must investigate complex and critically important cases! The game offers you 5 possible investigations in which your best ally will be a mobile application that will guide you through the clue cards and the evidence you find! Each player has a crucial role with, in particular, advantages that can be used every day. Indeed, the difficulty comes from this concept of time which will pose a problem for you, each displacement, track followed or other will cost you time! It’s up to you to think carefully before setting off in one direction because turning around will waste a significant amount of time …
A real escape game in your living room! Interactive and addicting, if you want to get away for an evening, Detective is the game to have or to give as a Christmas gift.
- Detective, edited by Iello
- 1 to 5 players, from 16 years old, around 120 min
- Author: Ignacy Trzewiczek
- Illustrators: Rafat Szyma and Aga Jakimiec
Unlock! Star Wars, deep in the galaxy
The success of Unlock is no longer to prove, Ace d’Or in 2017 for the first, all the episodes are a real success. The Star Wars UNLOCK Escape Game! immerses you in three new scenarios from the mythical universe of Star Wars. As a team, solve the puzzles proposed by discovering the hidden objects to the rhythm of the music dedicated to each adventure.
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This Unlock game remains in the same register as the previous ones in terms of gameplay, with numbered clue cards and a mobile application to accompany you. To play you must match the cards and the puzzles in order to solve the survey! The application times you and increases the pressure as you go along … In case of problems, the application can also provide you with invaluable help!
Unlock is a real escape game full of surprises and difficulties with an extraordinary ability to bring you into the game and into the investigation!
- Unlock! Star Wars, edited by Space Cowboys
- 1 to 6 players, from 10 years old, about 60 min
- Author: Cyril Demaegd
- Illustrator: Disney
Exit: The corpse of the Orient Express, a journey of twists and turns!
Exit, the reference of the escape game takes you this time in a complex investigation aboard a train to Constantinople like a real Hercule Poirotl where the characters are potentially all suspects …
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In this last issue, the principle is the same: a booklet of situations, puzzle cards and especially the decoding wheel! In this adventure, the goal of the game is to find the killer of the Orient Express! Each card represents a puzzle to be solved that will guide you to the killer. The wheel allows you to solve certain puzzles by decoding them, while the booklet will allow you to immerse yourself in the scenery of the train and find clues on your own …
Exit: The corpse of the Orient Express is truly immersive, it takes you on an investigation full of twists … Will you manage to find the murderer before losing him forever in Constantinople?
- Exit: The corpse of the Orient Express, edited by Iello
- 1 to 6 players, from 12 years old, about 45 min
- Authors: Inka and Markus Brand
- Illustrator: Franz Vohwinkel
Trapped, immersion for all
With the Trapped escape game range, it’s guaranteed immersion: players will be able to physically transform one of their rooms into a real escape room!
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The players, as a team, place the game elements in the different places indicated throughout the room: door, windows, tables, walls… In less than 60 minutes, they must find clues to try to solve the puzzles and get out.
3 boxes, 3 atmospheres, 3 difficulty levels:
- Easy level: The funfair.
- Average level: Breakage at the opening.
- Difficult level: Bank robbery.
Inside each box, players discover rich content to recreate the theme of the mission at home thanks to 3 plots created by creators of escape game rooms.
- Trapped, edited by Dujardin
- 2 to 6 players, from 10 years old, 60 minutes
Undo: Purple Lane, influencing the course of a lifetime!
Another saga extension this time with Undo: Purple Lane! In it, you will have to save a life by traveling through time to influence his tragic fate but also not to change the course of history …
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In this new adventure, the goal is to avoid the death of a person. For this, you will all return to a specific time in his life to be able to influence his destiny. Your investigation will plunge you into the very heart of a moving story and into the complicated life of a tortured man … It is this complexity that adds even more difficulty to the investigation by taking care not to make too excessive changes for not to take away from him the few good times spent in his life …
In this particular issue, your mission is particularly immersive, you live in the present moment and discover edifying information that will overwhelm you in your mission …
- Undo: Purple Lane, edited by Gigamic
- 2 to 6 players, from 10 years old, about 60 min
- Authors: Michael Palm and Lukas Zach
- Illustrator: Léa Frölich
Escape Box: Rick and Morty, be part of the Smith family!
It just goes to show that you can be the smartest man in the universe but still be fooled! In this Escape Box you play as Morty and you must save your terrible grandfather stuck in the Miniverse!
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In this Escape Box, you dive into the “wonderful” universe of Rick and Morty (each his point of view), to save Rick and Summer blocked in the Miniverse by the mad scientist Zepp… Rick has managed to leave you a message for them. find, you have 60 minutes, no more, to save them by deciphering the puzzles left by Rick thanks to the playing cards! Immerse yourself even more in the mood with the Rick and Morty soundtrack in the background, and who knows? Maybe she can inspire you?
A totally delirious universe with a very precise mission, be careful not to get trapped and save your family!
- Escape Box: Rick and Morty, edited by 404 éditions
- 3 to 6 players, from 14 years old, around 60 min
- Author: Stéphane Anquetil
Escape Game: Disney Villains, back to childhood
Inspired by the stories of animated films, the scenarios will take you from Wonderland to Agrabah, passing through ancient Greece or the kingdom under the sea.
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Jafar, Maleficent, Ursula, Hades and the Queen of Hearts are ready to do anything to carry out their Machiavellian plans. Decipher the clues, solve the puzzles, find your way back through the labyrinths with 5 independent scenarios that will give you up to 5 hours of play!
- Escape Game: Disney Villains, edited by Hachette Heroes
- 2 to 8 players, from 12 years old, about 60 min per game
