The Master’s Lair: a kind of escape game by Stefan Hoffman
Content warning: This game contains a few sexual innuendos (harmless) and there is a bit of carnage later in the story.
Fantasy • Two hours
The title is very ominous. It leaves me wondering: who is the master, what are they the master of, why am I in their lair, and why do I need to escape? There’s a subtle bit of humor in the subtitle, too, which contrasts with the suspense of the title. Based on the innuendos mentioned in the content warning, there’s likely more humor in the game as well.
The carnage part is interesting and suggests some sort of fight during the escape. It could also be something that the player stumbles upon, leaving them wondering what happened before to cause such damage. Or the player knows exactly what they’ve stumbled upon, and exists in fear that it will come..for them.
I get a very lime green mad scientist lair feeling from this (maybe because of the emerald in the cover art?). You know, white lab coats, test tubes and flasks filled with bubbling liquids, carefully-squeezed syringes of clear liquid.
TLDR: mad dash from the mad scientist