Surprise! One of this year's more delightful video games is an interactive escape room

Players are not just solving puzzles, they're unwrapping a world and discovering this weird school dedicated to puzzle craftsmanship, complete with a perplexing cast of characters — high-strung students, self-serious faculty, the occasional slacker, maintenance staff with odd obsessions. — Coin Crew Games

Coin Crew Games was created with a love for play in physical, real-world spaces. Since the beginning, the local firm had a mission: to prove those boxy arcade games never went out of style.

Video games to the Coin Crew team meant virtual worlds that were silly, borderline absurd, heavily social and, hopefully, wildly addictive. All of it was designed to nod to an anything-goes era of gaming when the medium was new and a premium was placed on wackiness. Games from Coin Crew needn't make sense. How about competitive bowling amid spaceships and cowboys? Sure. And their desired audience? "Small children" and "drunk adults," according to the Battle Bowling pitch.