Bad chess room, no actual chess just wood block mobile game ahh

The music in the Jumanji room just kept getting louder and louder which I don't think was intended

In the Reversi room I never was given the item to break the glass after turning all black pieces white. I reset the puzzle and did it multiple times, just never got the item necessary to get to the second half of the room.

It hasn't been thoroughly tested in VR, but I did manage to run through it in VR at least once, YMMV

Is this room VR compatible?

what a waste of time!!!! The museum was so good and this one was just rooms with no link between each others... Enigmes were easy I'm so desapointed

I have just played with a friend. One of the best rooms ever ^^
Congrats to all the authors, you guys make this the best community i have ever seen.

Tried multiple times but I just cannot get this to load. I had this issue with the museum one but after a couple of tries, it loaded but the board game version just will not load. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you. :(

Catalan, can't interact with coloured roads.

Very cool room, took a lot of time to solve it. Me and my friend enjoyed it. Only downside is that some rooms didn't have an explanation and we didn't know how to solve it. Small explanations of certain games would make it a lot better instead of needing to resort to hints :)

@Yunxu: I've just retested Snakes and Ladders, but I could not find anything wrong with it. Can you tell me exactly what did not work for you?
For Cluemanji, if you are referring to the stampede loop, that loop is intentionally infinite and without a discernible beginning and end. See the walkthrough for an explanation.

Thanks for the report, will investigate

I played through and the jumanji one needs a start point and an end point to that cycle. Also, the snake and ladder's one is broken.

Thank you for looking into it. I look forward to playing it.

Thanks for the feedback, will test on Steam Deck/linux. Unfortunately the room is quite a bit heavier than most due to the number of collaborators involved, but I'll see if further optimizations can be made

I don't have the same problem, but can't load it. Last time tried, it just kept on the intro screen loading up the game and never ended and hard drive going like it was trying. This time after playing several other rooms tried again. Now it just drops back out to the library page for Escape Sim and have to stop it with the stop button. Playing on Linux, but think tried Win10 also and wouldn't load. Have a good computer so shouldn't be that, cause haven't had any problems with other games or VR,.... run smooth as silk.

Trying to load this level on steam deck seems to cause the entire deck to hard reboot :(

How much RAM ends up in use with this level? Wondering if the 16GB shared memory on the deck just isn't enough for it?

Awesome, loved it!

The horses were the only part I really couldn't beat. When I finally used a hint, it was something I hadn't seen after staring at the walls for half an hour.

Yes indeed it does work mathematically. I'm not saying it's the solution.

No it doesn't; you need thirty animals, with a total of 94 feet.

In Cluemanji: For the second puzzle with falcons and zebras > a solution of 45 falcons and 1 zebra satisfies the required math to solve the puzzle, but doesn't register. Obviously they want a different answer. Just saying........ <.<

This was lots of fun, we enjoyed the variety, the Catan room was too vague and couldn't really figure it out but all the other rooms were not skipped.

Kept me entertained for some time and was quite enjoyable. Had to skip the Catan room, even with the hint I had no idea what was going on and after trying the dice every which way without being able to click on anything else I just had to skip it. Loved the potions and Gargoyles (D&D) rooms. Thanks for the fun!! xx

Thanks for playing!

Quite the challenging variety of rooms but I loved it! really made you think outside of the box in some of them, the horse one was pretty sneaky ill give them that. the dice puzzle in the villagers of catalan made no sense to me so had to look it up, but the second part was a breeze. All very interesting and unique rooms, one of the most polished maps i've ever played, fantastic job to everyone who contributed to the collab!

yeah I definitely figured that out my second time giving it a go LOL oops. On to the second area, this is so fun and unique!

@PeachVsEggplant Look at the image again carefully. The Falcon is correct, but perhaps it needs something else?

Bug in Pictionary room, I put the falcon statue for the second one, no chime and the 3rd button never appeared so I assumed I had the wrong statue but could not remove it. So it soft locked me out from completing within a minute of starting the room and I had to exit.

@HarrisonFTC Thanks for the feedback. I will never make another "The Collab: Boardgames" again. That would be silly and redundant. I will work on other collab's however.

Honestly, never do this again please, the most boring map I have ever played

Part 2

The domino room had one puzzle, the "place here" one that had the bottom left not work for me. This was only made worse since it was the first piece i picked up and tried to place and had to ask for the hint early (not getting a chance to solve it).

IMO the real weak link was the horse room but maybe it's cuz im confused on how u would solve that without hints. In addition to that even while staring at the answer, one of the answers didnt make sense. It felt like the images of one of the breeds just didnt match at all and i had no way of comparing the 2.

Overall, i had a blast! I would have loved to see more games that were made outside of the earlier decades, but boy some of the special effects and aesthetics of the rooms where amazing!

As someone who obsesses over both board games and escape rooms, this was super fun! most puzzles not too complicated (for those games i already knew).

One note that i would have for the Pictionary room: i would have liked to see some sort of indication that told you that some needed more that one object. After the 2nd one it made things more clear but i restarted the game cuz i thought i broke it since i couldnt pick up the item but it wasnt moving to the next.

The Dozen game i was lost at first but after the first hint i understood the game and was super satisfying when i figured it out!

I will agree the chess one was rough, only cuz sliding the pieces was difficult at times and i wasnt sure if i broke it when sliding pieces certain ways or when getting the kings out.

Continued...

Bug? In the Picturenary room all three times I've tried it, the button for the third pedestal never appears: I used the walkthrough to place the right items and the fourth button appeared, but after solving that one, the door didn't open? (the button never appeared on the third pedestal) Not sure if I'm missing something, but the walkthrough didn't indicate there was anything else

In the Snakes And Ladders room, the ladder/snake connecting 5 to 57 disappeared after double tapping it...

Not sure if you're looking at videos of the old/new version of the chess room. It has been updated recently so old playthroughs may not reflect it. You don't get a key anymore, now the medallion opens up directly on the exit door .

How do you get the keys for chess sliding blocks puzzle? I got the blue and red pieces out but no key

Well noted, appreciate all the feedback 👍

160 minutes of puzzle solvin' fun!

I think the Chess Room is bugged on my game. I get the Red Queen and Blue King out but i don't get a key. And when I look at videos of others doing it, their sliding boards are on a wooden tower with doors in the base. Mine is on a circular table with a single leg - no opening for a key to appear

Loved the dungeons and dragons themed room the most - fantastic stuff!!

Was also awesome to see Catan make it's way into Escape Simulator :)

Played all the maps with my mates loved all of them!!!

Thanks @haafamillion, well noted 👍

@zesty Thanks!

Finally got to play with my crew last night and we had SO MUCH FUN.
I didn't mind the chess puzzle. I liked it. So whatever.

The one problem we did encounter:
I had my escape medallion in my inventory and accidentally dropped it.
Third room on the right, first tier. I believe it was a potion's class.
We lost so many items under that second rug.
Only the first person in the room could interact with the note (with the hash tags and dots)
Lost the note under there, lost a plant under there, lost my escape medallion under there.

Minor inconveniences, since nothing we lost was critical to the solution of the puzzle and we were able to "skip" the lost medallion. We still had a blast. But if you wanted to look at that glitch, I'm sure it would save people some frustration.

Much love and gratitude!! Thanks for this amazing room!

Thanks @over! @haafamillion to play this community map, click the green "Subscribe" button on this Steam page and it'll automatically show up in-game in your community rooms playlist.

Looks great, can't want to play it later

Possibly dumb question... how do i get this workshop into my community room so I can play. It looks so good.

Appreciate the feedback, there are skip buttons btw for each module

I'm reading the comments: we all agree. The sliding one should just go, lol. Add a little skip button or something...

Great maps! But the claustrophobic chess one where you have to slide the pieces is just annoying. I don't know why anyone would think that's fun to put in a puzzle, really. I hope his other maps aren't as annoying, it wasn't a challenge or fun at all.