Think Fun announces development of next Escape the Room game

Think Fun had some pretty good success with their first two Escape the Room games, Stargazer's Manor and Gravely's Retreat, so a third one seemed only logical.  In their latest email newsletter they announced they will be developing this new Escape the Room game to not only be scarier, but also far more difficult that the previous two.  In fact they are making the claim it will be the most difficult room escape game on the market.  This is a rather high bar, and hopefully they still make the game fun because you can easily make an escape room that is very difficult but not fun.  However, given how fun and interesting, albeit easy, the other two games have been, I am hopefully for this one as well. Development is still fairly early, and they don't expect to have it released until the second half of 2019.  You can read the full newsletter below, and sign up on their website for email updates to track the development of the game.

You're getting this email because you signed up to be the first to hear about new content or games in ThinkFun's "Escape the Room" line. It's been awhile since we had news, but now we are thrilled to announce that we will be coming out with a third 'Escape the Room' game!

So what can we tell you about it? The most important thing is that we heard your feedback on our first two Escape games (Stargazer's Manor and Dr. Gravely) - what we heard was that you want the game experience to be more difficult, and for it to be scarier. Asked and answered! Escape the Room 3 will be the hardest 'escape' style board game on the market, and it'll be a good deal spookier than either of the first two.

For emphasis we'll repeat ourselves - this will be the hardest escape style board game on the market.

We can't announce the theme or any other specifics quite yet, expect to say that we're expecting a release date in the second half of 2019. Our plan is to send, to this group of email subscribers only, updates between then and now with exclusive first looks at artwork, announcements on theme, and any other cool info that surfaces. We've never done this with a game before - usually we keep things under wraps - but we want to involve you in the process, and so we're going to!

How can you help? It's pretty basic: just share our new sign-up page for this email list with any friends you think might be interested. The more interest we can build ahead of time the better the product will do, and the better the product does the greater the chance that we'll come back with an Escape the Room 4, and 5, and so on. So again, please send this page to anyone you can think of and have them sign up!