EXIT: The Game - The Magical Academy

The polterbold theme had us genuinely startled a couple times, which rarely happens with these escape-room games. The elixir-brewing puzzle was the trickiest of the bunch and took my partner and me a solid ten minutes to crack.

We played this with four people and the puzzles split up nicely so nobody was just sitting around waiting. The spell cards have a clever twist where you have to line up the symbols before mixing the elixirs, and that extra step really made the elixir room feel like an actual challenge. Finished with

The polterbolds had us genuinely stumped for a solid twenty minutes, and that "aha" moment when we finally cracked the elixir puzzle was worth every second. The app-based spellcasting adds such a fun twist that I didn't expect from a tabletop escape game. Already eyeing the other titles in the serie