The Cager Express

Welcome to the National Escape Room Day recap! Tati and Ky discuss this year's NERD event. From all the different activities at each booth to the winners of the escape room day trivia we have it all in store.

This special episode includes sound bites from those who had a chance to speak with us at the event! Listen in to hear about why everyone loves escape rooms so much, their favorite rooms and some special interviews with Skeleton Key Escapes Rooms, MindFox and Escape The Arcade.

We hope you enjoy!

Welcome in to the first Escape Break Olympics. In this episode Beth and Tatiyana go head-to-head in a battle of Escape Room Trivia and more.

Games Include

This episode is in honor of the upcoming National Escape Room Day on October 1st 2023.

We hope to see you at this Southern California Event as Ezekiel Cager Ky will be hosting trivia at this great gather.

Tune in for some fun as this match goes down to the wire! We hope to see you at the beginning of October!

Escape Break had the pleasure of coming back to Northern California. The crew visited Yuba City and Freemont California to take on 6 rooms collectively.

NorCal Escape had been on the radar for us for quite some time as a locally recommended gem. Additionally, Off The Couch Games was a highly awaited nostalgic treat. We discuss both of these great companies to check out and what the future holds for both of them.

Tune in for the fun, we hope you enjoy!

The Ultimate Game Master returns with an extra dash of ultimate thanks to Infinity Escape's Ariana Hartman. Touting the award winning Magic Cottage, Ariana join us to discuss being a game master and a quick look at the stories behind their existing rooms. We get some brief details about their upcoming room as well. As the episode shifts we talk more about:

Be sure to play all the rooms at Infinity Escape if you are even in Fullerton CA, and don't forget to catch the Hart to Heart Radio show next season on Titanradio.org.

Scott Levy is one of the owners of The Immersive Machine in Phoenix Arizona. But before he teamed up to create the out of this world adventure of Sal's Cybernetics he was just an escape room enthusiast like the rest of us!

Scott is also the father of the original Escape Room tracker: sponsored by Excel. We sit down and chat it up with Scott to talk about all his many ventures into the escape room world and a great behind the scenes look of his wonderful game.

The back half of our Arizona episode consists of some big hitters in the Escape Room world:

The Nemesis Club:

Paragon Escapes:

The Immersive Machine:

Each one of these games can all be in the discussion for top adventure out in the desert but Tati and Cager Ky have a clear favorite. We play a quick game of Is That A Room and then continue the landscape of the evolving puzzle scene in Arizona. We hope you can make a trip out and play a lot of these rooms in the future!

The Escape Room scene out in Arizona is one to be reckoned with and we are here to talk about it. We took a trip to Arizona and completed 12 total rooms and this episode we talk about 3 companies to consider playing:

Eludesions:

North Valley Escape Rooms:

The Greatest Escape Room:

All in all we had a great time with these rooms and recommend quite a few of them. No spoilers here but this is just part one of our Arizona adventure.

On this episode of Escape Break we discuss if there is a lack of creativity in the escape room world. After several years of escaping, is it time for some themes to retire completely? We also discuss the trend and details behind redoing a room as a version 2.0, theming a room after someone else's IP, and if any theme is truly original any more. With some taking on the Winnie the Pooh theme, and others touting the seconding coming of Fullerton's Zoe, we acknowledge the challenge ahead. With many following the trend of imitating others, we are in search for the few, the brave, the creative. Questions discussed:

Camille Chartier, the General Manager of Wild Goose Escapes joins us for an interview. Wild Goose currently has 3 locations in Southern California and are looking at building a 4th. After taking over of the long running escape room, Fox in A Box, Wild Goose is learning how to balance the craft of inheriting rooms and bringing in their own brand at a high pace. The Wild Goose original rooms are a great play and they have plans on bringing in a few more within a years time. Tune in to hear more about Camille and the hit rooms S.A.S.H.A. Home of the Future, Secrets of Shadow Point and their new rooms on the way.

On this episode of Escape Break, the crew watches an Escape Room movie so you don't have to. This special Film Session episode covers the Sci-Fi movie "No Escape Room" (2018). This film gives all it knows about the escape room world and we soon find out it's a bit out of touch. However, the team is here to guide you through and analyze the movie for a few laughs and save you from watching what could be described as the last escape room movie you'd ever want to see.