The Infinite Escape Room

Join us in this week's 'cafe-isode' at Squeaky Cream's Artisanal Fromagery and Coffee Roastery, where instead of coffee foam they serve cappuccinos with a dollop of gorgonzola. Here we'll be reflecting on a big question in the escape room industry: Is escaping "enough" anymore? Or do you have another core central mechanic? How about inserting other mechanics into rooms, such as achievements and side games? What makes a room memorable? As always, here are your recommendations for this month. Jamie - The Rest is Science (podcast), an accessible and fun science podcast that tackles questions of life and the universe. Bailey - Museum of Pop Culture with Josh Widdicombe (podcast) that is about exactly that - moments in pop culture history! Mike - Ade Edmondson's Beserker! (book), a fantastic read from a national treasure. Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Safely returned from their doorless room, with a hairbrush in hand, the team are left with only one VHS tape, adorned with images of graves. It sends them to a London Garden Park, with a curious statue guarding the gate, it's amazing what they call Art these days... Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape Episode Art: Dom Jordan -Dom Jordan Illustration Editor: Jon Saunders TLDR: The third episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in an escape room set in a London graveyard. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

After missing their one-flight-a-day from the Australian desert, the gang decide to shelter for the night in an abandoned shack deep in the outback. Inside they find a VHS player, and three tapes. But this is no ordinary VHS player, as the moment the tape goes in the world shimmers in static and we find ourselves transported to... A sewer. There's distant crying coming from the darkness and a creepy red balloon hovering in the air. But there's no time for clowning around when there's a puzzle to solve. If you're playing along with the puzzle, check out this visual asset when Jon finds the compass. Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs TLDR: The first episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in a maze-like sewer system inspired by Stephen King's IT. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Pull up a stool in the Northern northern northern Australian outback! At this near-empty Pub the team wrangle over the concept of difficulty in Escape Rooms, what it is, whether it is simply a feature of good or bad design, whether it is changing and, inevitably, what even counts as an Escape Room anymore at all! As always we come to you with humble recommendations to ease you into Autumn. Jamie - Thank Goodness You're Here! Cartoon style Steam game set in Northern England in which you help out the locals entirely by slapping things. Mike - Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Unapologetically trope-ridden fast food adventure books for when you'd like to read, but not to think. Jon - I Who Have Never Known Men. Utterly bleak dystopian sci fi novel, translated from French, that follows the first hand account of a young woman trapped in a cage with 39 other women for reasons none of them understand. You will be sad, but also know more. Jon (AGAIN) - Superliminal. Incredibly straightforward yet shockingly mind bending puzzle game that is all about changing your perspective. Think Stanley Parable if it looked better and were more optimistic. Genuinely moving and uplifting. Hosts: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins Editor: Jon Saunders Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

With the team's outback getaway driver KO-ed outside the toilet, the team find themselves stranded in the outback, 45 minutes before their flight from "Australia Airport" leaves. Time is of the essence, and in this special the solvers will have a shared 45-minutes to solve across both parts of the Outback Odyssey arc. But before they can get back on the road they'll have to get through dozens and dozens of gnomes... in various state of undress (Jamie's exact words, not mine). Somewhere among these gnomes the key to escape lies. It's time to lock in and- "Gnome more Mr. Nice Guy". Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Mike Collins TLDR: The first episode in the Outback Odyssey arc takes place in a field of gnomes in the Australian outback, featuring anagrams, rude gnome gestures, and a locked toilet. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

This is the start of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary. Sometimes, an episode as such an impact on us that we talk about it months or even years later. Groundfarce is one of those episodes. What started out as a simple spatial puzzle quickly devolved into a mud slinging match with zingers such as "Left isn't a cardinal direction!" and "I've left the shed and my eyes appear to have stopped working". We cut a fair amount from the episode in the original airing because things got a little heated. But as a special treat, here's the whole thing with additional commentary from me (Jamie). Grab your trowel and bring a map as Jon takes us through a surprisingly complex English garden puzzle. Special thanks to Patreon supporters Brett, Bettina and Matthew for making this episode possible. Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here: Puzzle episode Pubisode Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

In the most long overdue cross-over since Eastenders made a Bastard episode with Neighbours (true story), we finally welcome our natural ancestors from Escape This Podcast and take them... to their own studio. But all is not well, they are locked out, Jon has beaten them to it and is about to takeover the (podcast) world. Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and a very, very special cameo, as they try to take down the plummy giant, Lilliput style. Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor (and self impersonator): Jon Saunders Visual handouts to play along Mixing desk Poster Notepad Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually! Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.