February: Unlocked
This month, love is in the air. And for all you puzzle-lovers out there, we have recommendations to get your heart racing for riddles! Read on if you want to break codes instead of hearts.
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Video games, movies, and television! All forms of entertainment can provide a great source of inspiration for escape rooms. Come see what we’ve reviewed here!
This month, love is in the air. And for all you puzzle-lovers out there, we have recommendations to get your heart racing for riddles! Read on if you want to break codes instead of hearts.
If you’re having a calendar conundrum, fear not. We have recommendations on everything from movies to merchandise that are perfect for puzzle-lovers.
Escape rooms are thrilling live-action adventures. Discover what makes them so fun with Escape Effect’s guide. Perfect for Orlando visitors!
Still dreaming up the potential of partaking in an epic quest, in pursuit of an unimaginable mystical relic? Well, you’re in luck!
Are you looking for gifts to give your favorite escape room fan? We’ve put together a list of gifts that escape room fans are sure to love.
Phone Escape: Hopeless is an escape room game you can play right on your phone. It sports immersive storytelling and thrilling puzzles, all set in a macabre atmosphere.
Some of The Escape Effect’s escape rooms are a little dark, so just how spooky are they? Let’s see The Escape Effect’s spooky escape room rating!
From the minds of Neil Patrick Harris and theory11, Box One is a one-of-a-kind puzzle experience. Here’s our spoiler review!
We’re working a shift at Rusty Lake Hotel in this deadly escape room game!
Hey, y’all! I finally played Portal. Hope I’m not too late to eat cake with everyone! Here’s my retrospective review.
The Case of the Golden Idol is sure to satisfy lovers of puzzle games and aspiring detectives alike. Read on to see what we thought of this investigative indie game.
The four Harry Potter houses all have very distinctive differences, but how will these spellbinding skills aid in your escape room experience?
Thinking of visiting an escape room soon? Discover why The Escape Effect is voted Orlando’s best Entertainment Experience.
We’ve been anticipating the arrival of SeaWorld Orlando’s new roller coaster, Penguin Trek. Let’s talk about what makes this family-friendly ride so cool!
Learn how escapology, the art of escaping, became the fantastic stage performance that it is today! Lock yourself in for a thrilling journey!
Love escape rooms? Love books? Why not embrace them and have both at once? Check out our list of perfectly puzzling reads!
Here are five must-play escape room video games for all you puzzle enthusiasts. If you crave the joy only puzzle games provide, this is the list for you!
The Tetris Effect is a well-known phenomenon where people start seeing Tetris in their daily life. For escape room fans, this phenomenon is the Escape Effect.
The most-watched show on Netflix is coming back with a vengeance with Squid Game: The Challenge! And I’m not sure who asked for this!
Paddy the Padlock will teach your kids how to play this fun family matching game with a twist. Makes a great stocking stuffer for the holidays!
2021’s Emmy Award winning survival drama is gaining traction as we anticipate season 2! We’re taking a look at Squid Game Season 1 and giving our thoughts here.
There are many types of ghosts (or so the stories say). Have you ever wondered what type of ghost you might become?
We’ve written before about five puzzle movies for escape room fans. Now it’s time to look at some scary movies for the horror-loving escape room enthusiasts!
Cube Escape Collection is a point-&-click puzzle anthology that packs a lot of punch! Read our thoughts on the start of the Rusty Lake game series here.
Saw X is a gut-wrenching addition to the franchise, adding more character depth to John Kramer than we ever expected.
A Haunting In Venice throws Branagh’s Poirot in a spooky, fun direction. This in-depth look at the film comes from a fan of puzzles and mysteries.
Whether you like escape rooms for the puzzles or story, these five tv shows are a must-see! Hope you like sitting on the edge of your seat!
Expanding on The Room and The Room Two, The Room Three features an engaging story and plenty of puzzle-based gameplay.
There are many types of games to play and many types of players! Everyone enjoys games in their own way. What type of gamer are you?
Puzzles are everywhere and many people love solving them. But what is it that draws us to figuring out solutions? That’s a puzzle we’re going to solve!
The sequel to the popular puzzle game, The Room, The Room Two offers even more puzzles wrapped in a delightfully atmospheric package.
Escape Room Academy is an escape room game for casual players. How good was it? Read on to learn more.
We’ve previously shared social media posts on the Zodiac signs’ escape room team compatibility. We’ve collected those posts into a complete compatibility chart!
A new Dungeons And Dragons movie is coming out at the end of March, and it’s shaping up to be a lot of fun.
Escape Simulator is a game for people who love escape rooms. With lots of rooms available to play, does it deliver on the experience? Read on to learn more.
Discover what really happened in the Grand Compass Theatre in this exciting comic book prequel to Fright Before Your Eyes!
Escape Academy is a new escape room video game that we just had to play. Set in a school for escape artists, it’s loaded with unique puzzles. Read on!
Dungeons and Dragons is a great game to play with friends, and playing it can actually help you with escape rooms! See what escape rooms and D&D have in common.
Originally released in 2012, then remastered and released in 2014, The Room is a charming puzzle game with a great atmosphere.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s much-anticipated sequel was pushed to 2023. Here are some ideas for what you can do while waiting for it to come out.
Universal Studios is getting ready to release a Jurassic World escape room. We ask, “What’s going to be in it?”
This year, the Pokemon Go fest is taking place on June 4 and 5. Join us this weekend for a special challenge to earn your own badge!
Do you consider yourself a modern-day Sherlock Holmes? Find out which movie and TV version of Sherlock matches your style!
Trying to keep up with young attention spans? Here are a few games that you can play to make family game night even more fun.
Have you ever wanted to go to war with your family and friends? Well now you can, with The Escape Effect’s first-ever card game!
If you love escape rooms, you’ll surely love the 2+ hours of clips we’ve compiled for you. A weird connection, we know, but a great time nonetheless.
Betty White has been a cultural icon for decades. On what would be her 100th birthday, we would like to remember the part she played in our lives.
Here’s our take on a classic Christmas poem, with an escape room spin, as Santa spends the night before Christmas at The Escape Effect!
Before playing at The Escape Effect, get in the mood with these five exciting puzzle movies! They’ll get your brain ready to tackle our games.
With the extended cut of Escape Room 2 coming to streaming services, Dan Suleski got to thinking about what sort of meta-twist may happen now.
If you love the thrill of game shows, you’ll want to watch these hilarious takes from SNL. They’ll definitely make you laugh.
August 18 is Mail Order Catalog day, so we’d like to talk about the history of mail order catalogs and how they evolved into modern online shopping.
Get ready for Escape Room 2! Check out the exciting sequel to the 2019 Escape Room movie, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions.
The 2019 Escape Room movie was fun. With the new sequel coming out, we’d like to take a closer look at the rooms in the original.
After looking at the best Pokemon teammates, we wondered which Pokemon would be the worst in an escape room.
SNL is no stranger to the hottest video games, and they definitely know how to poke a little fun at the people that play them.
Sometimes, Saturday Night Live can turn a mystery into pure comic gold. Here are three times SNL solved a crime.
We wondered which Pokemon would make great teammates in an escape room.
Today is a special day: it’s the 25th anniversary of The 7th Guest, a video game that has been very influential with escape rooms.
Looking to play an escape room instead of reading about them? Lucky for you, that's what we do!