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Company: Immersia Escape Games
Game: The Forgotten Station
Country: Canada 🇨🇦
Language: English, French
Type of Game: Digital Escape Game 💻
Genre: Kidnapping, Train
Date Played: November 11, 2022
Difficulty (based on 4 players): 5/10
Size of Team: Unlimited (Up to 6 is recommended)
Time: Unlimited (Approximately 60-90 Mins)
Price: $19.99 CAD
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Railroad magnate James Presswood has made a fortune with his reinvention of the Orient Express. But now, his family has been kidnapped! And it was an inside job! From within an abandoned train control room you must unravel this unwholesome plot and bring his wife and son home safely. He’s counting on you.
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"The Forgotten Station" is an online version of an Immersia escape room that has now been retired. I love that a virtual room can live on after the physical room is dismantled! The game is hosted through the Telescape platform. The game starts with a light tutorial to show how the controls work if you aren’t familiar with the Telescape format.
"The Forgotten Station" is set in a small square room, which lends itself really well to the panoramic controls. It’s easy to see everything. In the game, you can pan 360º around the room and click to zoom in on areas of interest. You can also tell what your fellow players are looking at because a colored cursor for each teammate will show on your view. This aids discussion—which you can set up on your own via zoom, discord, meet, etc.—by letting you see what they are focused on and avoids working at cross purposes (e.g., you are each trying a different combination on the same lock).
There are a few video cut scenes integrated into the game that are used to advance the plot and roll out new objectives along the way. The amateur actors give it their all, and the tone of the videos is campy. Hints are available within the game. The link to play is available for 72 hours after purchase.
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Many of the puzzles in The Forgotten station are focused on unlocking padlocks on a bank of lockers and on the control console. The game play is generally linear, e.g., opening a locker will make clues for the next puzzle available.
There’s an assortment of escape room style puzzles—deciphering codes and matching patterns. (It’s easy to be less enthusiastic about things you aren’t as good at, so the audio and translation puzzle was my least favorite. It was difficult to distinguish with multiple players online).
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When you need an escape room fix, The Forgotten Station delivers that online. It’s perfect for a small team that wants to work together and the kidnapping plot line provides the necessary motivation and urgency for a fun ride.
Check out our interview with the creators to understand more on the development side of the game:
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Disclosure: We thank Immersia Escape Games for providing us with a sample of their game. Although a complimentary experience was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.
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