REVIEW The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel the 2nd Coded Chronicles escape room in a box game
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 2020-11-08

The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel is a puzzle based board game that uses the Coded Chronicles system and is based on the movie The Shining based on the book by Stephen King. In this escape room game, you play Wendy and Danny who are trying to avoid Jack and escape from the Overlook Hotel. 

The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel was designed by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim, the same team behind the first Coded Chronicles game, Scooby-Doo! Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Both of these games are published by The Op. 

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Disclosure: The Op provided us with a review copy of The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel. 

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From the Publisher:

The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel puts one or more players in the roles of unhinged writer Jack Torrance's wife and son, Wendy and Danny, who must work together and find a way out of the mysterious resort!

Driven by the "Coded Chronicles" mechanism, which requires you to unlock clues and solve puzzles for unique storytelling codes, the game allows you to use psychic abilities like "the shining" to get through more than two challenging hours of escaping the threat of homicidal Jack and the paranormal hotel itself! Since every Coded Chronicles game is enriched with thematic details and objectives, escaping captivity makes this edition's difficulty level as hard as a dizzying hedge maze (minus the time limit)!

Players can anticipate being engaged with every unpredictable turn, thanks to Wendy and Danny's heightened abilities, which allow their characters to investigate with double the intuition as characters from the previous Coded Chronicles game, Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Use Wendy's skill of looking and using surrounding objects to get a better hold of helpful items or tap Danny's supernatural "Shining" to reveal hidden clues.

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The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel written review: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/the-shining/
The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/WsvdLZdNWjg
Get your own copy: https://amzn.to/2TlNywN (affiliate)

Check out my thoughts on the first Coded Chronicles game:
Scooby-Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion Review: https://youtu.be/O5DZycjiGDs

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