Escape-game team building: solve a mystery together

Finding time for a team activity can be difficult when people work in different offices or from home. A trip to a physical venue also means coordinating travel, availability and capacity. A shared online game can give the group something concrete to do together wherever they are.

With Escape Maison, one person opens the game in a browser and shares the screen. The group reads clues, suggests ideas and solves puzzles together. Play in the same room or use your usual video-call tool. Check the game language and the appropriate business licence with us before booking a session.

For an in-person session, put the game on a large screen. For a remote session, one player shares their screen in your video call. That person controls the mouse while the rest of the group reads, discusses and suggests what to try. The game itself does not provide a multiplayer video-call service.

Three to six people per screen is a useful starting point. Smaller groups have more time to explore individually; larger ones may need a facilitator to make sure everyone can contribute. For fifteen or twenty people, consider several teams playing separately under the agreed licence.

A shared puzzle gives people different ways to contribute:

• Someone spots a detail the others have missed.
• Someone reads a clue aloud and questions an assumption.
• Someone works through the logic of a mechanism.
• Someone records the codes and ideas already tried.

Rotate these roles during the session so that the same person does not control every decision.

A physical escape room has a fixed location, time slot and capacity. A browser game lets you arrange the activity around the team’s own setting and schedule.

• No travel or specialist props. Choose a suitable computer and screen, then fit the game into your session: part of a team day, an informal afternoon or an after-work get-together.
• Different offices, one shared screen. Colleagues in separate offices can see the same clues and talk through them using your existing video-call software.
• Use covered by your licence. If several teams or departments will play, include that in your enquiry so the licence covers the intended sessions.

HR teams, managers and staff representatives can ask us for a format and licence suited to their group.

The settings share a focus on observation and reasoning, but each gives the group a different story to explore.

• The Clockmaker’s Legacy — Follow a missing clockmaker’s notes through his workshop and instruments. Try the opening room to see how the group gets on with the format.
• The Golden Shuttle — Investigate an old badminton club through records and mechanisms. The clues are in the game; you do not need specialist knowledge of the sport.
• The Four Aces — Step into a 1920s casino where cards and records become clues. There is no real-money gambling.
• The Secret of Valombre — Investigate an inventor’s erased name at Valombre manor. The Classic edition has 80 puzzles in eight chapters, with documents and witness statements to compare.
• The Theatre of Shadows — Paris, 1932: Rose leaves during a stage blackout, and the programme has been altered. Reconstruct what happened through the evidence.
• Room Zero — Examine the Hôtel Orphée’s archives, compare six accounts and correct the clock readings to understand Alma’s movements.

Not sure which fits? Tell us about the group, its preferred language and any previous escape-game experience.

The €19.99 games advertised on the French site are sold for private use. Team-building sessions, company events and other professional uses require an appropriate licence. Contact us with the intended use so we can provide the relevant terms and price.

To request a quote, email info@escapemaison.fr and include:

• your organisation and the team taking part;
• the proposed date or period;
• the number of participants and teams;
• whether people will play in the same room, remotely by screen sharing, or both.

We will reply by email with a quote and, if useful, a game recommendation. Include the details needed for a business invoice.

A short trial is the most useful way to judge whether the format suits your colleagues. The Black Cabinet (Français) is our free French-language game, available in exchange for an email address. For the new language editions, use the available Exploration previews and confirm readiness before planning a session.

Try a room with two or three colleagues. Check that everyone can read the clues, hear the discussion and contribute. That will also help you describe what you need when requesting a quote.