You can escape from this room, but you will never escape from Google Drive

Anyone who has been lucky enough to work from home for most of the epidemic is likely to escape from a room (or bed) that has become a temporary office fee. Is related. Enter this series of “escape rooms” built into Google Drive, let it do so, you may have become very familiar with web software. “Part 3” of the game was finally released today, But you will never be able to escape using Google Drive.

By “Escape: A Game” Anthony Smith Chosen in a series of interconnected Google Docs-styled as your own-adventure game. You “wake up” from a smoky mysterious dream in the cabin room, and you’re tasked with getting out. “Part 2” Did you do the same in the hotel corridor, and “Part 3” that just came out, I won’t spoil myself or anyone reading this. We’ve seen other escape room games built into Google’s software before, but “Escape” has a weird, weird charm that’s hard to deny.

As cool as all this is, Google Disks is not the best place to play the game. Clicking links in disks may require multiple clicks to actually take you somewhere, and new tabs are added quickly. All I can say is that my laptop is under stress for the cross-referencing key and for the number of tabs I open to dial the in-game phone. A great advantage of playing in a collaborative word processor is the possibility to get help in solving puzzles. Both “Part 1” and “Part 2” feature pages that pull double duty as a guestbook to drop people’s names, and help each other solve puzzles. You need to request a request to edit the page for “Part 1”, but even without live edits, it’s still easy for hints.

The initial real storyline in “Escape” is thin, but it leaves plenty of space to fill the weeder edge with your own connections. For instance, for the entire time I played, I can’t shake the similarities between the game’s smoked filled cabins, and Control‘Oceanview Motel’. That Control The level features an escape room-style puzzle and serves as a luminous space in the game that you returned several times. “Escape” lacks cool visual aesthetics Control, But there are some shared legacies in their peculiarities.

I worked on the first part of “Escape” for about an hour and ended it with over 50 tabs and pretty weird history. I learned some facts about dentistry, became frustrated with myself for not remembering the 151 original Pokemon, and became increasingly concerned that it was all a trick for me to understand how links work in DX. All in all, spending some time online is not a bad thing at all

“Escape: A Game” can be played for free on Google Drive. “Part 1”, “Part 2”, and “Part 3” are now available for your puzzle solving fun.