“Join a top-secret CIA training program in this 60-minute adventure which tests your suitability for a career in international espionage. Work as a team as you choose your virtual path through the Psychedelic Mansion, testing yourself at a series of word, skill, puzzle, and action challenges as the mansion tries to trip you up at every turn. Each challenge level is harder than the last and there are 4 evaluations you’ll need to work through. How many can your team complete before the hour’s up? Find out by stepping inside the Psychedelic Mansion.”

This mission is for 2 to 6 people. We played it as a group of 2 and it was pretty full on playing game after game; we imagine as larger groups you may spend periods watching others play. The experience is 60 minutes long, and you have to work your way through as many levels as possible to score points. There are 4 different mini games to play, which increase in difficulty as you progress through the levels.

Puzzle – this game requires some quick and logical thinking as the ball keeps spawning out the starting point, and with walls and other features in its way, you play as a block piece to manoeuvre around the gameplay space to allow the ball to reach the finish. This was our favourite of the 4 mini games and changed up each round within each level of difficulty.

Action – move from side to side and jump in this fast paced game whilst collecting the correct gems. The characters are running along individual tracks and you have to move side to side and even jump to avoid collecting the wrong ones or hitting crates and freezing out. Collecting the right ones completes the rounds and collects more points before passing the level.

We had a lot of fun, and were certainly tired at the end of the hour; we do believe it would be more fun with more players than 2 to break the games up a little and watch & enjoy. It was nice to be able to purchase drinks and take into the gamebox, and also loved the air conditioning to keep us refreshed throughout. Can’t wait to see the new venues open and hope a larger variety of games with more minigame challenges are created. We’d like to thank Electric Gamebox for providing us with our hour game.