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The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel puts one or more players in the roles of unhinged writer Jack Torrance’s wife and son, Wendy and Danny, who must work together and find a way out of the mysterious resort!
Driven by the “Coded Chronicles” mechanism, which requires you to unlock clues and solve puzzles for unique storytelling codes, the game allows you to use psychic abilities like “the shining” to get through more than two challenging hours of escaping the threat of homicidal Jack and the paranormal hotel itself! Since every Coded Chronicles game is enriched with thematic details and objectives, escaping captivity makes this edition’s difficulty level as hard as a dizzying hedge maze (minus the time limit)!
Players can anticipate being engaged with every unpredictable turn, thanks to Wendy and Danny’s heightened abilities, which allow their characters to investigate with double the intuition as characters from the previous Coded Chronicles game, Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Use Wendy’s skill of looking and using surrounding objects to get a better hold of helpful items or tap Danny’s supernatural “Shining” to reveal hidden clues.
—description from the publisher
Ages | 17+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players |
Play Time | 120m – 120m |
Designer | Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim |
Mechanics | Cooperative Game |
Theme | Movies / TV / Radio theme |
Publisher | The OP |
pusboyau
Liked the Scooby Doo implementation, not keen on the increase in horror, plus common complaint is lack of proofreading.
yossys_giants
Coded Chronicles puzzle game. Too many mistakes in the codes to enjoy smoothly, it feels it was too rushed to production. Shame, great theme that works so well with the coded chronicles mechanic.
Vergelius
Basically unplayable due to several misprints. I will not even try to sell it since I don’t want any fellow gamer to suffer through it like we did. Instead it goes right to the garbage bin.