Be it for an office bonding trip, a birthday or bachelor/bachelorette party, or just a fun outing with friends, it's hard to beat a good escape room.
Searching your themed room inside out for clues, hoping you'll make it out before the timer goes off.
Of course, there is little more frustrating than being told you've run out of time.
No matter if you were one or twelve clues away.
As a result, super competitive players might go to desperate lengths to find a way out.
More often than not, only finding themselves getting even further off track from the clues in front of them.
"Escape Room workers of Reddit, whats the most absurd thing players have done?"
An 11th Hour Save...
"So this isn’t necessarily absurd on the players side, but instead from the Game master."
"One time our players were doing the bank heist theme, done in the dark and you have headlamps, and about 4 puzzles in one of my employees realized they had an item in their pockets still."
"So we brain blasted for a couple minutes and decided the best course of action was to pretend the employee was a 'security guard' and walk around the bank."
"So we went over the room intercom and warned them to hide cause it looked like the security guard was coming to them."
"Seeing all of the players hide in complete fear was priceless."
"One guy wasn’t even hiding he was just sprawled up against the wall."
"Our 'security guard' walked around, said 'hmmph everything seems good' and placed the item down on the desk."
"It was legendary that they didn’t suspect anything."- PM-ME-YOUR-VAN
So Many Questions...
"I did an escape room with my family and the workers have to tell you not to lick the light bulb."
"This is because some guy thought if he licked the light bulb the answer would be revealed on the light bulb."
"The only answer he found was light bulbs are hot and can burn you."- chazminor6
GIF by moodmanGiphyLocked In With Bad Company...
"Attended a 'Saw' series' themed escape room with my SO and some randoms since the room required 4-6."
"We get locked in to start, chained to fixtures like the dark room scene from the movie - lights are off."
"As soon as the thing starts one of the randos says, 'I have a gun in case we need to shoot someone'."
"I thought he was joking."
"We all did."
"Eventually the lights turn on and he pulls out a real gun and sits it in the sink and says, 'I'm leaving the gun in the sink in case something happens to me'."
"It's for everyone'."- JokerSix
It Always Happens When You Need It The Most...
"I did an escape room with a group of friends."
"At the end, you found a flash drive which was supposed to be plugged into a computer."
"We opened the document and there were instructions to print."
"We got print, and the printer gave us an 'out of ink' error."
"We assumed this was part of the game and started looking for a magenta cartridge."
"Then an employee slipped in the room, replaced the cartridge, and told us to hit print again."
"Apparently it was not part of the game."
"They just ran out of ink."- mizboring
Animated GIFGiphyI Could Go On Singing...
"I went to one where there were three identical rooms which teams competed in at the same time."
"If you finished, you then got to watch and listen to the other teams."
"Our team did pretty well and we got to watch the other two teams try to complete it."
"Anyway, there was this one lock which was a number combination and you solved it by finding some sheet music in a book, with five notes on it, which corresponded to numbers."
"The piece was entitled 'The Key' or something similar so you knew you needed it for the lock."
"Anyway this other team instead of converting to numbers and putting in the combination chanted this five note tune at the lock."
"When it did not work they tried again, then again, then someone else tried. "
"This went on for 10 minutes and got louder and louder."
"Eventually the game master stepped in and told them it was not going to work."
"Apparently they were the only team ever to do that."- staticman1
Less Than Graceful Seduction...
"I one had a group of drunk guys go in and they ran through their allotted hints pretty quickly."
"They asked for another hint and we said over the speakers that they were out of hints."
"One of the guys threatened to start taking off his clothes until we gave another hint."
"We didn't even have to give him the extra hint."
"His friends chilled him out and ended up finding the next clue pretty shortly after that."- trash_confetti
Martin Lawrence Underwear GIF by MartinGiphyCutting To The Chase...
"My buddy guessed a lock's combo which gave us the final clue, but we had not found the other ones."
"We ending up solving the room backwards."
"When the room administrator came in she had nothing else to say but 'What the f*ck did you guys do?'"- maarten-col
It's easy to get riled up, and succumb to doing ridiculous, usually humiliating, things when you see the clock ticking away above you.
Thankfully, the embarrassment is easily washed away with a few drinks afterwards.
Further down the line, you'll find yourself owning your buffoonery, with a story guaranteed to earn. some belly laughs for years to come.
People Break Down Which Things May Look Easy But Are Actually Quite Difficult
Some things are deceptively simple.
Oh, skydiving? That's easy.
Love yourself? Simple.
Who can't open a can of pickles?
ME! ME! That's who. I can't do any of the above simply.
It's all hard. And you know it too.
It's just designed to" look" easy only to bamboozle us.
Approach everything as a burden and live by a motto...
Redditor pterv2112 wanted to hear about the things that are truthfully not so simple.
"What looks easy peasy lemon squeezy but is actually difficult difficult lemon difficult?"
Monopoly. For the life of me, I can't get the hang of that game. I don't care anymore.
Play it...
Saturday Night Live Happy Dance GIFGiphy"Playing the triangle. A lot of my non-musician friends joke about how easy it is to play it. Then they actually hold the damn thing and look stupid."
phamtasticgamer
It's A Lot!
"Work. I'm a lawyer and had a client call saying she needs a help with a merger, but 'don't worry, it's super easy peasy lemon squeezy.' That project took 6 months and I almost had a breakdown. She didn't understand why the bill was so high since it was SO easy."
moekay
"Gotta love how the layman lumps all lawyers together as the sleazy snakeoil salesman type without realizing or appreciating the sheer complexity of the legal work involved."
cotidie_abide
Body Moves
"Dancing. I wouldn't say it looks 'easy,' but when I see people do it, they're so good at it and it flows so well it looks easy. But damn, I just CANNOT get my body to do anything more than a bop and maybe some stupid arm moves. I'm 25 and dance like a 50 year old at a reunion. Dancers are so delicate and make it look so easy, it's honestly amazing. It's just hilarious when I try to do literally anything and fail horribly."
MiloAlbertsky
Fingered
"Whistling with your fingers."
SimplySolstice
"My cousin taught me when we were in our tweens. It's come in very helpful whistling for the dogs and horses at feeding time."
"What I always wanted to learn was how my grandpa whistled without having to stick dirty fingers in my mouth. Nothing like cleaning stalls, then trying to whistle for horses with sh*t-covered hands. Washing them in near-freezing buckets of water wasn't a first choice either."
flecksable_flyer
It's a...
Studying Hand-Made GIF by Philippa RiceGiphy"Drawing something from memory. Like a bird or something. In mind - yep that's a bird On paper - that's... a bird?"
KayGlo
Drawing birds is impossible; mine look like mules.
Go Deep
Digging Blue Collar GIF by JC Property ProfessionalsGiphy"Digging. Anytime it's shown in movies or TV it looks easy AF but the second you have to grab a shovel and break dirt... bleh."
justaboredfarmer
Hello Doc
"A basic physical exam at the doctor. Looks like a simple 'look at the throat' - 'listen to the chest' - 'yup they have a heart all right.' When in actuality Doctors spend thousands of hours practicing it so that when you come in with a murmur or 'Funny-looking-kid-syndrome' they can recognize it immediately."
"And yes, there are entire class sections on how to respectfully ask your patient to turn their head and cough as you push on their testicles (they're looking for hernias)."
RobheadOW
Variations
"Street names. Everyone thinks it's great fun and likes to offer suggestions but every tree, lake, and other natural feature has at least a dozen variations which you can't repeat for emergency service reasons. That and you get cities which want a street name change anytime the road changes direction regardless of a logical break point like an intersection."
blue_fox_13
Being Regular
"'Natural' makeup. More work than 'regular' makeup."
Lockshala
"To be honest this reminds me of a video I watched of a visual effects artist explaining his job, If no one notices your work on the footage you've done your job well, its only when you mess up do people notice."
EON199
"This is painfully true for a lot of jobs. When nobody notices, it means you did an excellent job but no one will give you credit because they aren't even aware there is credit due. But the moment you slightly f**k up, you're the worst person in your profession."
BreakfastCheesecake
The Squeeze
As If Lol GIF by MOODMANGiphy"Making lemonade. Sure squeezing one lemon is easy peasy, but do you know how much juice that makes? Not a lot."
PrimaryOstrich
Psssh simple...
"Pretty much anything that a professional does. They make it look easy cause it's their job. Throw a football 65 yards accurately? Psssh simple if you're an elite athlete. Cut open a chest cavity to fix a few coronary arteries? It's just another day at the office for a surgeon. Frame up a structural wall within a 2000 sq ft house?"
"Just a bunch of wood and nails is all you need. Make crowded teeth perfectly aligned? Surely it's just a matter of wearing trays 1 through 55, voila! It's all straight. In reality, each of these tasks takes someone who trained for years to visualize the problem, solve it, and execute it to the T. It looks easy, cause they practiced the hell out of it."
buttgers
3 feet off the floor...
"Flying remote controlled helicopters. It looks so effortless when watching seasoned flyers but in reality it’s like balancing a marble on an upturned bowl."
Michael_Stone_UDA
"I'll never forget the time I went out and bought a decently priced helicopter."
"5 minutes into setting it up, i didn't even get it 3 feet off the floor before i smashed it into a chair destroying the rotor blades."
"I tried maybe like 5-6 more times before i gave up and now it hangs in my garage as a monument to my failure."
Deseptikons
Relationships
"Maintaining friendships from high school/college after you graduate. People get so busy with work and starting their own families that friendships get put on the back burner. You stop talking to someone for a few months, then it suddenly hits you that you're no longer friends with the person."
DeathSpiral321
"The mark of a good friendship is one in which you can go a long time without seeing or talking to someone, and the moment you see or talk to them again, it's like you saw them just yesterday."
Moonchopper
Comfy
GIF by Vulture.comGiphy"Folding fitted sheets. I've watched instructional videos that make it look so easy but I always just end up with a crumpled up mess, and that's how it gets put away."
AngryGoose
On Wheels
"I use a wheelchair and people usually don't believe me when I say that getting around can be difficult, because many of them think that pushing a wheelchair is easy. (They literally tell me this.)"
"The thing is when you use a wheelchair all day and it is basically your only means of transportation, it looks more natural."
"This becomes a problem when I point out accessibility problems. They often don't believe me because they see how I can navigate and assume that it's easy – just because *I* make it look easy."
buckyhermit
Payments
"Finding a career you’ll want to go to every day that won’t crush your soul. Remember when you were young and teachers told you that you could be whatever you wanted to be... yeah, not so realistic when you want to pay bills and maybe have a little beer money too."
"I didn’t go to college and struggle with the thought of not being able to have a lateral career move without a degree, but then I see my friends absolutely floundering with their student loan payments and think maybe I don’t have it so bad after all."
goldengirlsmom
I See Living People
"Socializing with people. I have severe social anxiety, and even small interactions with strangers, and even some people I’ve known for a while are really hard for me. I don’t hate people or dislike being around them, but I’m just awful at keeping conversations going or initiating them. Outgoing people make it look very easy, for me it is not."
I love Lemonade... the drink and the album... but I have no patience to make it.
Escape Room Employees Describe The Weirdest Ways Customers Have Tried To Free Themselves
I don't see the appeal of these rooms.
Why would one enjoy being trapped in a room?
When you watch people trapped in a movie you cheer for their release.
But this activity has gotten super popular.
And people have gotten real creative in their escapes.
Redditor CaptainCatButtwanted to hear confessions from the great escapes. They asked:
"Escape Room employees, what's the weirdest way you've seen customers try and solve an escape room?"
I haven't tried these rooms yet. Not sure I want to. Highly claustrophobic. Convince me...
No touching...
"I used to work at one. I can’t tell you how many people thought that power outlets were a prop and tried to stick keys into them. Guys. There was a lamp plugged into it and a 'do not touch, not a part of the game' sticker on it. It’s not a trick, don’t do that."
brasscassette
Shackles
"A friend of mine works for an escape room and he told me one about a puzzle where the key to the next door was shackled to a desk by a combination lock. What you are supposed to do is figure out the combination for the lock from the clues around the room to free the key. What one group decided to do instead was get a guy on each corner and pick up the 150 pound desk and carry it across the room, slide the key into the lock, and then rotate the entire desk to unlock the door."
sharrrper
'Yale'
"I am not an escape room employee but I did a lot of em and talked to the employees often. One of them told me there was a simple lock (opened by a key) that had 'Yale' written on it (the name of the lock company) and a lady (not native English speaker) thought it read 'yell' and legit shouted 'OPEN!!' at it, expecting it to open."
Dorza1
searching the fountain...
"Recently went to an escape room with my co-workers. Before we started, we were explicitly warned not to touch or drink the bright blue water coming out of a fountain because it would turn our skin blue - clearly people had tried searching the fountain as part of the escape room previously and now they have to warn everyone."
babers1987
Voice of God
Whos That Voice Of God GIF by Shark WeekGiphy"I was in an escape room once where one puzzle involved some objects that needed to be manipulated inside a structure that made it very awkward."
"We were all looking at it trying to figure out how to proceed when I said 'Well, the bottom is held on with screws and I have a screwdriver in my purse, but that would probably be cheating.' Instantly the Voice of God came over the intercom 'THAT WOULD BE CHEATING!' So we didn't do that..."
Miss_Speller
Well people really do get creative at this game... don't they?
Reverse
genius GIFGiphy"Had a group of engineers who were familiar with the style of the lock effectively reverse engineer the lock. They showed us how they did it afterwards."
Snowf1ake222
Smoked...
"When I was in one they told us several times that the fire extinguisher is NOT part of the puzzle. They said it so many times, I'm 98% sure someone once used it lol."
Zirael_Swallow
"I always wait to see if they say not to disassemble smoke detectors, if they have that warning, I ask about it, and every time they will always have a story about a dumby who ignored the warning labels and disassembled the smoke detector."
cleverplaydoh
Group of 4
"There was a story on here a while ago about a guy in a group of four who took a broom from the first room because 'it had to be for something.' He said it looked too out of place to not be needed. Well he was half right. It was out of place but that's because it was the broom used by employees to clean the room."
"It was simply forgotten when they cleaned last time. The guys giving hints thought it was hilarious that this guy carried a broom through four rooms expecting it to be the key to their escape at some point. I thought that was funny as hell."
PCCoatings
Damages...
"Take in a screwdriver and dismantling furniture or taking doors off hinges... all the while we specifically tell them not to use force and that furniture is just furniture. Though I don't care cause they gotta pay the damages. Also had some groups press our panic button cause that opens all the doors (for emergency cases)."
"So they can skip puzzles and be faster. Makes zero sense to us cause they are paying for an hour of playtime and to solve puzzles, not like the prize is reduced cause you solved less in fewer minutes. Especially since our prices aren't cheap."
karmasabitterpill
Idiots
Idiot Facepalm GIFGiphy"Breaking EVERYTHING. Trying to eat or drink things they should totally not be trying to eat or drink."
Radiant-Comb9058
Perfect Pitch
"My brother and sister once did an escape room where they fell behind 45 minutes in to their one hour limit. Then my brother sat down at the piano and just played the background music that was on (he has perfect pitch). This happened to be the code to open the final door."
B1ue_zangoose
Are you crazy!?
"I did a spy thriller which had a chalk board. Trouble is, 3 of the 4 of us were scientists. A chalkboard full of equations?! Clearly this meant something. Now. In hindsight. It seems unlikely that any puzzle designer would expect you have the working knowledge to solve quadratic equations. Or that you'd need anything but the most basic of mathematical skills."
"So that was our first error. The second error was when our friend (fiancé of one of the three scientists and only non scientist of the bunch) immediately goes to erase the board with its immaculate display of complicated formulae and equations. She was immediately wrestled to the ground."
"Sheer panic. No dignity. Are you crazy!? You don't just erase someones chalkboard!!! Full blown PTSD of Uni is the play here. Lo and behold. Erasing the board revealed some unerasableble text, spelling out the clue. We felt bad for that one. She was right."
Kenobi_01
Numbers
"We were supposed to find the numbers to a padlock. My boss had guessed the answer within 5 minutes."
Th3_Accountant
"I had to do this once. In a poorly designed room, one of the padlocks needed to be open by a hint that led to a 5 letter word, but the lock only had 4 digits so the designers of the room just took the last letter off of the word and spelt it wrong. We were trying real 4 letter words and couldn't figure it out so I just started guessing and eventually got it."
ObsquatuIate
Digits
code GIFGiphy"Not an employee... but my group once was so bad that we solved the room by fully misunderstanding the concept and we ended up getting the five digit code to the lockbox via some truly failed logic that shouldn't have worked."
xeothought
Water Levels
"One of the puzzles is opened at the start of the room to reveal a large jug of water with a floating key, but the water level is too low for you to reach it. As you progress through the room you get smaller canteens to fill up the jug. Bachelor party comes in already tipsy, orders multiple drinks as they progress through the room, and at some point one of them pees into the jug to raise the water level. This is what made me leave for another job. If you ever go to an escape room, just know we're judging you for every move you make."
Xenomorph_Queen
Your UV
"I was in a room once with a puzzle that required UV light - and you did find a UV torch somewhere. Problem was, the batteries were as good as dead. Luckily I had a UV torch on me because I hadn't yet unpacked my pockets from night geocaching the previous weekend. Came out of the room, telling the employees, 'Your UV badly needs new batteries.' - 'How did you solve it then?' - 'Well, had my own...'
bbgreenie
Hey Jeff...
"Went on a team building escape room and ended up in a room with a colleague we'll call 'Jeff.' Jeff is profoundly deaf and a large part of this particular room involved listening to messages on Dictaphones that could be found in different drawers* etc."
"About ten minutes into the timer an employee burst into the room in a panic and we turned to find Jeff taking the Dictaphone apart piece by piece because he had no idea it was making any sound. He was not supposed to do that, still a top bloke."
ifthen_endif
Letters matter...
lights alphabet GIFGiphy"I don't know if it's the weirdest but we had a puzzle which involved morse code. Usually you had to use an endoscope to find the alphabet in a chest. One person in this group actually knew the whole alphabet and was able to solve it."
MrNighty
She broke the machine...
"Not an employee, but while doing a casino-themed escape room with some colleagues, the worker told us 'please do not pull the lever on the slot machine as it will break something later in the game.' The timer started and my coworker went 'well we’re obviously supposed to do that first' and pulled the lever. We were not supposed to do that first. She broke the machine."
ProfessorBeer
Even though there are a million ways to escape, I'm still gonna pass. My claustrophobia won't allow it.
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Games are suppose to be fun.
It's about fun and not winning.
That's a lie. Winning is winning!!
And don't let love fool you. You stay the course.
Sorry, I'm projecting.
Let's discuss what fun pastimes have really dampered relationships.
Sometimes it's best to just talk. Or watch TV.
Redditor ctw1271wanted to warn everybody about the competitive situations that are suppose to be fun but can burn down relationships. They asked:
"What's a game that can ruin a relationship?"
I am Monica. Remember she was the competitive psycho one on "Friends?"
I never play games in a relationship anymore.
Not since the fire.
Fork in It
Cat Chef GIF by XboxGiphy"Overcooked has sparked many an argument. Bomb Corp/Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes are both good for this as well."
ItsGotToMakeSense
Word Problems
"My wife and I only ever played one game of Scrabble about 6 years ago - we don't talk about it, ever!"
hackyslashy
"Lol, came here for this. It’s probably just how I grew up, my family always played scrabble to win and used the by-the-book challenge rules and everything. Gets pretty intense but there’s no hard feelings towards anyone for being a try-hard or whatever."
"I had no idea some people had an entirely different attitude towards scrabble until I saw some Reddit thread talking s**t about people who use obscure two-letter words. Like I don’t have the whole list memorized but I’d never hesitate to bust out the old 'qi' or 'za' if I needed to."
Dangerous-Ad-170
The Burn
"My wife loves this game. It goes like this. In bed. Sleepy. Getting ready to drop off into a deep, coma-like sleep. My wife snuggles up next to me and whispers into my ear: 'Do you smell something burning?' Then I have to get up and check the whole house for non-existent smoke. I hate that game."
Positive-Source8205
Just Hug
"Spin the bottle."
Professional-Toe2279
"I was once at a party with my ex boyfriend, and this game came up. I said I wasn’t comfortable with him kissing anybody, since he wasn’t even a big kisser in our relationship, and we proceeded to argue and he went upstairs and sulked."
trowawae1
No Loyalty
Episode 9 Nbc GIF by Law & OrderGiphy"Diplomacy. The object of the game comes down to stabbing other players in the back."
churchoftom2
Is it wrong I want to play these games? Is that why I'm single?
Stay Confined
Yelling Season 8 GIF by PortlandiaGiphy"Escape Rooms apparently."
DrWuDidNothingWrong
"I'm so sorry. Escape rooms are the best. You'll find someone who can do escape rooms with and you'll thank the fates that this one ended."
informationmissing
Shut Up!
"Some people call it A**hole, others call it Presidents. It’s a drinking/card game. I’ve seen hell break loose more than once. A lot of people I know just outright refuse to play it due to its nature. It’s become “'he game what’s name we do not speak' kind of thing."
dullgreybathmat
Chances
"Risk; have gotten into multiple fights while playing the game. We quite literally had to start making truces with a 'kick in the b*lls' rule, where if you broke the truce, the person you broke it with gets to kick you in the balls. Truces were either over a certain border(s) or over a pre-determined number of turns."
"Added fun idea (having myself played many different variations of risk)... try playing LOTR risk (possibly the most advanced/complex version of the game) with the ring and extra mission cards (as well as the territory/reinforcement cards) and see how many rule disagreements you get into."
studude765
Damn Dumbo
It Takes Two. Supposed to be a game about saving your relationship and learning to work together right? Well it was all going well until we got to the point where the couple theorizes killing a stuffed animal Elephant will save their marriage. Don't ask me why, I truly don't know but my bf immediately went from having fun to nearly crying over this elephant begging for her life and my stupid monkey brain thought 'yes must complete task at all costs, will throw this thing off building because it says so.' My bf now thinks I am a monster and I'm inclined to agree."
SenPay_Me
Not ready for Secrets
truth or dare asl GIF by Sign with RobertGiphy"Truth or dare."
Scoob1978
"I dare you to divorce me and take both our children into exclusively your custody and only allow me to see them 1 a month at a place and time of your choosing under the supervision of child protective services."
SnippDaschund
Destruction
"Destiny 2, my online fling became addicted and grinded way harder than i can, and she basically ended up ghosting me to play with her guild."
1267u
"My wife became obsessed-with/addicted-to D1 back when we were dating, and it only got (a lot) worse when D2 came out. Nearly destroyed our relationship. We have kids, so there was more incentive for us to fix the problem, and we did, but it took a long while."
ModestMuadDib
Body Count
"WoW. that thing has a body count."
lemons_of_doubt
"4 year relationship and marriage plans ended within months of my ex playing this. S**t was like she was drug addict, sole thing that mattered to her and any one or thing associated with it. Such a shame."
KingaDuhNorf
"I started a character on a friend's account because I was curious. Made a Dwarven paladin and then suddenly it was 4am and I had work the next day. No thanks."
onlyawfulnamesleft
She's Out
"Overcooked."
another_hobbit
"My wife and I played together about three times... and three times we got into arguments. I played another time with a friend, and we did so well that it felt like I was cheating on my wife. 'Man, I wish my wife tossed the food over that fire pit as good as you.'"
StoolToad9
"I banned my wife from playing with me... I play with my brother in law now he knows how to run a kitchen."
Kmccabe1213
Truth Bombs
Oh Honey Reaction GIF by NETFLIXGiphy"Never Have I Ever."
bossmaser
"First time I played 3 months removed from college and I discover how to tell a room I was a virgin without telling them I was a virgin."
CTeam19
Break Ups
"Catan. The robber is a relationship breaker."
GameAddict5150
"Shocked to see this so far down! My husband and I almost never fight, but we played Catan with my sister and her husband and I won, and I'm pretty sure my husband is still harboring a grudge and lots of bitterness... This was 3 years ago. We don't talk about it but we have also never picked that game to play since."
ferocioustigercat
Just a game...
"Dota 2 or any MOBA really. I used to rage at my own friends and family. I finally grew up and realize it doesn't matter how much I practice, I'm never going pro. Might as well just have fun and don't sweat over winning or losing. It's only a game. Don't have to be mad. Especially over a game I'm just okay in."
Daboosay
THAT Game
"Risk. Can't believe nobody has said this yet. I've seen more grown men act like babies whilst playing Risk than any other game. I've seen game boards thrown across the room, tables flipped, drinks thrown, beer poured into full Pringles cans. When Risk was more popular years ago, getting betrayed in Risk was probably the leading cause of ruined friendships for guys aged 15-25."
FinestTreesInDa7Seas
Bye...
angry magic the gathering GIFGiphy"Magic the Gathering. It was all fun for my boyfriend at the time while I was learning the mechanics. Then I started building my own decks (slivers at the time) and I started winning. He swore it off and never played with me again. I took all the cards when we broke up."
redfoxrockinsox
Just be simple... play some card games. Though that has brought me trouble before. Just watch Netflix.
Video games get a bad rap—often being blamed as time-wasters, brain-rotters, etc...
But there's an altogether different side to be considered.
They can be masterpieces of storytelling, visual stunners and bring people together in ways they couldn't have connected otherwise.
Reddit user justanabricot asked:
"Gamers of Reddit, what is your favorite game ever?"
Reddit users had all kinds of reasons to love the games they love - and they're not afraid to totally geek out about it.
Experience The Fear Again
"Subnautica!"
"The fear of the unknown, but explored in the comfort of my own room."
"It lets me explore, be afraid, and subsequently conquer each fear as it rises."
"What gets me is that after I figure out the 'enemies,' the game somehow reminds me that I'm the alien here. They were there first."
- Exciting-Shame-88
"This is probably my #1 game that I would want to delete from my memory and experience again for the first time."
- Badios
"I have a bit of thalassophobia, so this game was a pretty incredible ride for me."
- PunkandCannonballer
"I just finished it again the other day, and I agree it is my favorite game."
"I want to start from the beginning with no knowledge and experience the fear and wonder I went through again."
- bringbackbulaga
GiphyFreedom Beyond Anything
"Morrowind."
"The experience and freedom was so beyond anything else I experienced at the time."
"The ability to craft crazy spells so powerful they had almost no likelihood to not succeed, kill essentials NPCs because you're not gonna tell me the story is more important than getting his armor, and the amount of little mechanics and things to discover that seemed unending."
- CrusadersSolace
"It has been overshadowed by Oblivion and Skyrim, but people forget how revolutionary and different it was for fantasy RPGs back in 2003"
"Takes place in a part of the world where humans are a foreign minority. Yes, the Empire is human run, but this distant province is home of the Dunmer."
"The varieties of cultures you experience. It isn't just your run of the mill standard European Medieval fantasy: weird Daedric ruins, steampunk Dwemer ruins, mushroom towers, and bone-armored warriors that live in giant crab shells. Not to mention the flora and fauna to match."
"The background lore is so well done- and they leave the right amount of it unknown. There are so many different versions of "the truth" that gains genuine interest in the backstory and motivations instead of 'Big evil thing wants to rule/destroy/etc the world.' "
"The amount of customization. You can create your own spells, potions, or charm your weapons/clothes/armor."
"The 3D world. It seems mundane today, but as a teenager, walking into a tomb in POV was something new."
"The theme song Nerevar Rising (the first iteration of TES theme) is stunningly beautiful. Years later I used it to walk down the wedding aisle to."
- Whizbang35
GiphyTerrifyingly Beautiful
"Bloodborne."
"The gothic/Lovecraft world is so terrifyingly beautiful. Every turn or corner had something horrible. I loved every moment."
- ebenni500
"I wish I could forget Bloodborne just to replay it for the first time again. Talk about an amazing first play through."
- Dr_Truelove
"I played it through for the first time last week. Absolutely Phenomenal"
- BelowAverageWeeb
GiphyAs A Kid Who Didn't Have Friends
"100% Mass Effect."
"The story was so rich and giving the ability to shape not just your physical character but who they were through so many actions and choices give the character a life and make friendships with the NPCs really gave me a safe escape place as a kid who didn’t have a lot of friends growing up."
- Admiral-Shepard
"It's insane just how much I got attached to those characters"
- SuperMajesticMan
GiphyBuild, Fly, And Blow Up
"Kerbal Space Program."
"You get to build, fly, and usually blow up space ships with relatively realistic physics!"
"It is the type of game I would dream about growing up (I was a space nerd) and it has incredible scaling difficulty and a great modding community so it really never gets dull."
- willstr1
"Right there with you! This game has brought me thousands of hours of entertainment."
"Can not wait for KSP2!"
- KetzerJefe343
"KSP is an amazing game!"
"It is so easy to fail, but it makes it fun none the less! It makes you learn from your mistakes and keep building from there!"
- g00diebear95
GiphyFighting With Friends
"I really like the Mario Kart/Mario Party series."
"Those games have brought me so much entertainment and joy when hanging with friends, and DEFINITELY some arguments in between."
"So much hours spent on those games, with some of the BEST music as well."
- [Reddit]
"Unkillable classic."
"I don't play them as I'm not a switch user, but a game or two when I'm with my girlfriend doesn't hurt."
"Still great games, if I get a switch it's for 3 good reasons: Mariomaker 2, animal crossing and Mariokart."
- justanabricot
"Mario kart is such a good multiplayer game, I remember playing it on the Wii with my family for hours."
"Sadly my cat destroyed the console. I will probably get a switch with Mario Kart on it to have fun with it again."
- brokebecauseavocado
GiphyFor Love And Dogs
"Fable. Mostly because to make people fall in love with you, half the work is saying "Hey" over and over again."
- ChebbiesPebbies
"In Fable 2, when you beat the game they gave you one final choice with three options:"
"One was to resurrect everyone that died in your quest, and the other two were something like money and weapons."
"Near the end of the game, your dog companion dies protecting you. I had named mine after my aging childhood dog, so obviously I made the choice to bring everyone, including my loyal video-dog, back."
"At around 2am, after beating the game at the end of a long binge, I put it down and went to sleep."
"The next morning, I got a call from my mom that she'd had to put our dog down the night before. I like to think of him like he's running the fields in Fable 2, helping me dig up stupid sh*t."
- liberal_texan
"I f*cking love Fable."
- ultravioletblueberry
GiphyMeeting Your Destiny Playing Destiny
"Ignoring my favorite old school games, my favorite modern game is Destiny/Destiny 2."
"I met my wife through Destiny about four years ago."
"We had a Destiny themed wedding and we welcomed our own 'Little Light' in February 2020."
"We still play together most nights and spend most of our time teaching new players the endgame content (Raids/etc). From the gun play to the lore to the raids, there’s a lot to love in Destiny for me."
- Sephiroth0327
"Destiny is def a big part of your life. Gotta respect that"
- justanabricot
GiphyAlways Alistair
"Dragon Age: Origins."
"I just love everything about it. I feel like it has great replay potential due to all the different choices/ending you can have."
- PUCK202
"With ya there bud. Dragon Age: Origins is my no#1 most beloved game of all time."
"The characters, the setting, the combat and character role-playing, I even loved the shit out of the combat system."
- EthanWolfMan
"I've replayed it many times with many different character builds, but I always end up the same way."
" 'THIS TIME I'M NOT GOING TO ROMANCE ALISTAIR' "
" *Narrator: She romanced Alistair.* "
- Starsuponstars
GiphyPlay With People You Know
"Honestly I know someone is going to hate me for this, maybe everyone, and I wouldn’t at all blame you, but please hear me out."
"Fortnite."
"I play it a lot with my boyfriend and some of his friends and it’s such a hoot if you’re playing with people you know."
"If you’re playing random fill lobbies on your own, it is kind of sh*t because you’ll usually get teamed up with some squealing 8 year old kid who thinks having 100+ skins effects how well he plays the game."
- dumbblondebimb0
"Fortnite isn't a bad game; it just has the most garbage community you can find."
"I played a lot of save the world, the first game mode of fortnite, and gosh it's not the same. But things got boring quickly. You farm to get better so you can farm better stuff and quicker. It's a loophole."
- justanabricot
"I've always thought the same thing."
"Only played a handful of times, but I was impressed with the game. Really fun to play with friends."
"The enjoyment falls off when you're solo or playing with kids."
- apollofour20
GiphyPersonally, there's no video game greater than Oblivion.
We've already talked about Morrowind, so it's clear the Elder Scrolls series has been impactful, but for me Oblivion offers color, storyline and mythos that just can't be compared to anything else.
Also Sheogorath.
I really, REALLY, love Sheogorath.
GiphyWhat about you, readers?
What are your favorite video games and why?
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