Escape rooms breakout boxes are a relatively recent entertainment phenomenon that became famous globally in the early 2010s and now can be found in several cities around the orb. Generally, an escape room will be played by a small team of people over an hour, who will be ‘locked’ in a physical space and have to solve puzzles within the time limit to escape. The escape games will take place within some overarching narrative with a core goal, for example, to escape from the mad scientist’s lab with the secret formula, defuse the bomb and save the world, or escape from the Pharaoh’s tomb with the treasure. This narrative will influence how the room is fixed and dressed, as well as the types of games that are within it. The portion of the narrative can vary, as escape rooms can be either narrative-driven or theme-driven. Theme-driven escape rooms revolve around a theme structured by the …








