From virtual to real life escape room

• Live escape rooms originated from video game escape rooms.
• Players are trapped in rooms, like a private detective’s office or a pirate ship cabin, and must find clues and solve puzzles to escape.
• The attraction started opening in Central Europe and Asia over a decade ago and has now reached Spain.

Everything is virtual nowadays, thanks to video games and the Internet. Because of that, we forget the enjoyment of real-life experiences. But the truth is, you can feel more.

Online escape games, also known as “takagism,” have been popular for many years, with mobile versions like “The Room” leading downloads for a long time. In a world dominated by smartphone games and virtual reality consoles, it’s easy to forget that real-world games aren’t new. Fortunately, now the concept of escape rooms has moved into the real world. Fortunately, now the escape room concept has moved into the real world.

In 2007, Takao Kato opened the first real escape room in Japan. The idea then spread to China, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. A friend of Kato’s brought the game to the United States in 2012.

Located in San Francisco, California, his “Real Escape Game” had over 6,000 visitors in its first year. Now, worldwide, someone wanting to play an escape room often has to book more than a month in advance.

The popularity of live escape rooms is unstoppable, and similar real escape rooms have opened in other parts of the world.

In the room, you’ll find yourself in a race against time, trying to decipher clues to reveal the combination of a lock that opens a box hiding photographs. These photographs give hints on how to read a map, which leads to another mystery, and another mystery inside another mystery.

People are always looking for new forms of entertainment. Games have become a way to have that entertainment. The problem was that the human body and face-to-face interaction were left out of this equation. We believe that, thanks to live escape rooms, we are returning to these qualities.