The Op Reveals The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel Board Game

May 27, 2020

The Op has announced an escape room styled board game based on the Stephen King classic, The Shining, is arriving later this year. In The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel, players will represent Wendy and Danny Torrance as they do their best to avoid the insane Jack Torrance and flee the haunted hotel. The game is for one or more players, ages 17+, plays in around two hours, and will carry an MSRP of $29.99 when it arrives later this year.

From The Op:

“Here’s Johnny!” In The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel, take on the roles of Wendy and Danny and work together to search for a way out! Use psychic abilities like “the shining” to solve challenging puzzles, but beware of Jack and the hotel itself, which are conspiring to keep the Torrance family captive. Can you get Wendy and Danny out of the Overlook Hotel while avoiding the axe-wielding Jack?

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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