Unlock!: Escape Adventures – The Island of Doctor Goorse

A card-based escape adventure on an eccentric collector's island, with two teams starting in different places.

Designer: Thomas Cauët
Published by: Space Cowboys

You and your team have crash-landed on the island of an eccentric antiques collector, and getting off it will take some thinking. In Unlock! The Island of Doctor Goorse, the group is split across two separate starting points, so two teams have to work their own side while still helping each other. It is one of the Unlock! escape-room-in-cards adventures from 2017, using a companion app for the timer and clues. You search scenes, combine objects and enter codes, working toward an escape in about an hour. This one is cooperative, challenging, and designed for two to six players who want to talk puzzles through.

Two separate starting points on the islandCard and app puzzles against the clockChallenging adventure for two to six

Who it's for

You enjoy escape rooms and want a slightly tougher one with a split-team twist.

Not for you if…

You want an easy first puzzle game, or you plan to replay the box afterwards.

Vibe's take

Puzzly and a bit breathless. Two sub-groups hunt for clues on their own, then swap discoveries and discover that one team's mystery object is the other team's missing key.