As a hobby, 2 friends and I created some escape game road trips. It basically comes down to up to 20 teams driving about 300km per day on scenic routes while solving escape room type of puzzles. Our first (and next) edition goes through Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Now the strange thing (to us) is that we get teams from all these countries (as well as France, Poland and Slovakia), but none from Germany.

Could the English language of the game be an issue for Germans? Or are Germans just not a fan of road trips? Or something else we’re missing here?

We’d love to see more German teams, but not sure how to approach that or why we’re not getting them.

Thanks!

(I don’t want to make this a self-promotion thing, but I feel like it might help a lot if you know what it actually is about: [https://www.wackywheels.nl/escape-game-road-trips](https://www.wackywheels.nl/escape-game-road-trips/?af=reddit)).

10 comments

  1. Fuel is extremely expensive right now (and has never actually been cheap) in Germany.

    In my experience your target audience for an English-language escape room thingy would also be university students and the like and they often simply don’t have a car. When I studied maybe a quarter of the other students had a car, if that. Most rely on public transport.

  3. Me as a German would say, wth why I should drive just4fun 300km every day and waste a lot of money for fuel.
    Germans are stingy

  4. I ain’t gonna drive 300km a day to solve puzzles on the way. Either I take a roadtrip with a planned endpoint or a nice break in between planned or I don’t take a roadtrip. Long distant travels are about the traveling itself, e.g. by motorbike or walking, or to get somewhere if its by car or train. I honestly wouldn’t even entertain the idea of joining.

    Edit: I checked out the webpage and I am even less in favour of giving them the time of the day. Just everything about it, including needing to get my own accomodations *only a month* in advance without knowing specifics is really nothing I would want to do.

  5. Well my first thought is that that sounds extremely wasteful

    There probably is some degree of inverse correlation though between comfort using English and car ownership

  7. I won’t speak for all Germans, but as someone who normally likes escape games, this isn’t something I would do. Driving 300 km just for a game sounds stressful and wasteful, not to mention the distance I would have to travel to even get to the area. And if I even have to organize my own accomodation, I would rather plan my own road trip at the date I prefer and around stuff that I want to see and do my escape games in another context.

  8. Yeah this sounds like you really want to f**k the planet and you purse. I think that’s why germans most likely won’t do such a thing.

  9. Sitting for hours in a car (especially on german autobahn which are not scenic) is an absolute waste of time and ressources and a very unsustainable venture. The idea for me is as stupid as cruise liner holidays.

  10. I think outside of people who own vehicles for a kind of hobby (motorcyles or vintage cars) most do not consider driving itself as a fun activity. Its a means to an end to get you and your stuff to the place you actually want to be at in a somewhat comfortable way.

    (Also that sounds super expensive and not something many young people would have the money for)

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