

So without further adieu, here are my top 10 picks of Game Festival games for the escape room connoisseur: The Steam Game Festival runs from the 3rd – 9th February and showcases a whole range of games from different genres (my company’s own game is there under ‘Racing’ – keep an eye out for Drive Buy!) If you spot any games you like the look of, you’ll be able to watch live streams with the creators, add to your wishlist for news, and in most cases – download a demo version of the game! Pretty much all you need to play them is a PC, and not even a particularly good one at that. The best part? Since this festival is the developer’s chance to put their best foot forward and showcase their games, you can play most of them for free. Why? It is absolutely PACKED with escape room games this year. One thing I’m extra excited to talk about on The Escape Roomer is the Steam Game Festival. All it means is that my horizons have been broadened- no, that’s not right… More like they’ve been totally blown open with all the amazing ‘escape room’ video games I’ve been exposed to lately. Does this mean this blog is now about videogames? Nahhh. The demo is on Steam (find the 'Download Demo' button in all that clutter) and GOG too.So here’s a bit of a life update for everyone who didn’t ask for it – in 2020 I transitioned away from working in the escape room industry into the video game industry. Its site lists a load of other stores as well. Good-o! I'll give that a go myself once I clock off for the day.


"The writing in these first few scenes shows off a dab hand, and immediately drew me into what feels like a pleasingly parochial tale, whose mysteries really could go in any direction, from the perfectly ordinary to science fiction, and I realise I'm okay with whichever." A Jessica Fletcher mask hangs on the wall by my desk (I say that as if we don't all have one?). I'm always up for unlikely characters becoming detectives. Here, look, the launch trailer explains more about the scrapes Kathy will get into after rolling back into her hometown on her motorbike:

John was pleased by the slice he played last month, and now it has a public demo so everyone can give it a go first. Kathy Rain, a point-and-click adventure game about a journalism student in 1995 investigating her grandfather's mysterious death, launched today.
