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The Psych Ward

August 28 2017

First Look at The Psych Ward

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Here it is, the first look at The Psych Ward, our 3rd full length game opening THIS FALL! I know we have been teasing about it for over a year, but now we will be giving you updates all the way until it opens! If you have not yet, make sure to put your email on our mailing list to be notified when tickets go on sale!

The Psych Ward

The Psych Ward has taken the longest to build, and that is mainly because we just don’t like to make things easy on ourselves. As you can tell by The Hex Room, we love creating new and innovative games that no one has seen before!

My husband and I have played over 150 escape rooms, and honestly, they are starting to get kind of boring. Don’t get me wrong, we LOVE escape rooms, but after so many, the experience gets dull. But, I can now list some new skills to my resume: expert bank robber, jail breaker, spaceship repair team, and private eye (to name a few). Although these game all have different themes, the challenges and puzzles all feel the same. I feel it is our job as entertainers and enthusiasts to create something new.

That is where The Psych Ward comes from. What if you were in an escape room but you didn’t know who was on your team? How would you manage to work together? Would you use your friends for your own gain? Or would you still work together even if you had different motives?

These questions were so interesting that we had to dig deeper. What if one of the puzzles of the escape room was how you choose to play the game? What if we pit teammates together? What if some had information that they could choose to share? With this new game play, the rules and preconceived ideas of escape rooms become lost, and it is up to you as to how you want to play your game.

The Psych Ward is a game of trust & betrayal. Who can you trust? Who will trust you? That is just one of the many puzzles inside this thrilling mind game.

Take a look at our first trailer below. Make sure to check back as we slowly reveal more videos, pictures, and information to the craziest game you will ever play. I promise you only have to wait a little longer…. Don’t worry, you can trust me.

Madison Rhoades
CEO, Co-Owner, & Creative Director
Cross Roads Escape Games

August 21 2017

The Asylum Mini-Game

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The Asylum is an exclusive 10-minute mini-game created as a teaser game for our up coming full-length game, The Psych Ward. The Asylum mini-game is a mobile game that we take with us to conventions to show new players how fun escape rooms are!

The Asylum Mini-Game

The Asylum is only 10 minutes long and for exactly 2 players. You and a partner are strapped together in a straitjacket, thrown in a small padded cell, and forced to work together. You are suffering from split personality disorder; 1 body, 2 heads. Two sinister looking nurses strap you together and lock your straitjacket with an assortment of locks. You must work together with your other half to unlock the locks on the jacket so you can get to the key and escape.

It’s a huge hit at the conventions we have brought it to such as Midsummer Scream and ScareLA. It also has an exclusivity to it that we like, because it only holds 2 people at a time and is only made available a few times a year.

Players love this game because it forces them to work with their partner every (literal) step of the way. It’s also fun to unlock locks that are on yourself instead of on boxes or walls. The cell is eerie and dirty with the sounds of screaming coming from another room.

It was created to get people excited for our new mental hospital themed game, The Psych Ward, which will be an hour-long game at our location in Anaheim, and is opening soon! Although there will be no straitjackets in The Psych Ward, it will be in a similar world… and may contain a padded cell. I can’t give away too much but I will say this game is unlike any other escape room you have played.

The Asylum mini-game by Cross Roads Escape Games

Patients in The Asylum

Madison Rhoades
Co-Owner and Creative Director
Cross Roads Escape Games