About Space Station Aurora
Space Station Aurora is an escape room for adults set in orbit above the Arctic. A solar storm has knocked out the station’s systems, the reserve oxygen will last 60 minutes, and you are the night relief crew. The station computer, MIMER, can’t press a single button itself, but it is very happy to make checklists. The rest is up to you.
You work your way through the command module, the engine room, life support and the docking port. Along the way you read a cracked status panel with a check light, route the power around burnt-out nodes, find the relay satellite on the star chart, decode Morse flashes from the ground station, mix breathing gas from the tank gauges and steer the return capsule around debris that only Earth can see. At the end you need all four system codes and the storm’s timeline, where the clocks don’t agree.
The puzzles are made for adults and need you to combine clues from different rooms. If you play on a TV, screens, manuals and notes are shared out across your phones, so nobody can solve it alone. It works well as an online escape room for the office party, team building or a game night with friends. The help button gives hints in three steps, and the codes are new every time.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the station on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read MIMER’s emergency checklist in the command module. It tells you which four systems need to be brought back.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look, and switch modules with the buttons at the top. Locked modules open up along the way.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Tap an item twice to look at it more closely.
- When all four systems are running, enter the return code in the capsule. Tap Help if you get stuck.