Description

Stokes Barker Chapter 1: The Invitation is an Escape Room style game set in the world of Sherlock Holmes.

The game features interactive puzzles, peculiar characters, devious riddles, curious ciphers & mysterious events.

Play alone or grab a team & embark on a mind numbing adventure as you follow a series of interwoven clues to solve the mysterious disappearance of legendary Jazz Musician Stokes Barker on a chase through 1940’s Louisiana.

Whether you're a seasoned sleuth or aspiring detective, you'll find all sorts of new and unique challenges ranging from word and number puzzles to optical illusions and hidden reveals.

It's time to step inside the mind palace of Sherlock Holmes...

Stokes Barker is a collaborative game that can be played alone or as a group. There are no dice or turns, players must instead carefully examine all of the letters, case files and evidence included in the box. They must then use multiple files at the same time to deduce a series of puzzles and objectives.

Players are given an objective at the beginning of the game which is to find out how and why Jazz Legend, Stokes Barker, has disappeared. To win, players must deduce the name of a suspect correctly.

When players have completed all of the puzzles and objectives given to them they will be able to submit their solution into an online form which will verify their solve. If correct, players will watch a video detailing the next parts of the adventure and summarizing their accomplishments thus far.