Nowadays, there are many opportunities to diversify outdoor activities, and in this area it is already difficult to surprise anyone. But the modern entertainment industry continues to delight with unusual ideas. Team games are becoming very popular among residents of huge megalopolises. They provide an opportunity not only to plunge into another reality, but also to develop and show personal qualities, such as leadership, creativity and ingenuity, as well as to reveal the physical: agility and coordination. Real-time adventure games are called quests, which, in turn, were borrowed from a variety of computer tasks. Conditions are characterized by real human interaction with the outside world.
Quests indoors
“Escape room” is considered a classic genre among the varieties of gaming activities. This intellectual game is played indoors or in several objects connected among themselves. Participants who decide to take part in it are locked inside. The goal of the game is to find clues, keys, all kinds of ways to get out of the room, solving puzzles and guessing riddles. One of the most popular types of this genre is the Bunker quest. The game takes place in real abandoned bunkers that have not been used for their intended purpose for a long time, but are specially equipped for the event. The story of the quest, as well as its conditions, can change and have a large number of options, so stumbling on the same line of stories is quite problematic.
How is the quest done?
When it comes to bunkers, the post-apocalyptic situation immediately comes to mind, the hostilities associated with the threat of nuclear weapons being launched, and the brain immediately turns on the survival mode. It is this mood that reigns inside the catacombs equipped for a team game. To maintain this situation, the staff who organize the Bunker quest are reincarnated as military men even before entering the premises. They put on appropriate costumes and engage in dialogue. Sometimes, in a carefully thought-out plot and remarks of workers, you can trace the history of the situation, but only superficially, while maintaining a sense of secrecy and understatement, although sometimes a complete briefing and introduction to the course of the case is carried out. The bunker is small in size, but still a fairly large amount of time is spent on the participants exploring the room, searching for things that will help to get out and, accordingly, a collective brainstorming is used.
Game conditions
Usually, a team of 4–6 people is recruited for a game — this is exactly the amount needed to complete the Bunker quest. The reviews state that all mobile devices and electronics from the participants are expropriated before the end of the event. Depending on the topic of the ongoing game and its complexity, an age limit is also set, so not all bunkers can be entered with children. The time for completing the quest is allotted depending on the established difficulty: from one to several hours. If the search for an exit from the bunker takes a long time, then the organizers have provided small snacks in advance, which, of course, also need to be looked for. The food, by the way, also does not go beyond the plot line, successful participants during a search of the premises can stumble upon a dry ration, decorated in accordance with the traditions of wartime.
The biggest quest "Bunker"
This object is located in the cultural capital of the country - St. Petersburg. The quest "Bunker" (St. Petersburg) is very popular because of its realism and size: it includes eight rooms. Before the start of the game, participants are instructed: the organizers demonstrate the video in a separate cinema hall, where security measures and goals that the team should achieve are voiced. An hour or more is allowed to exit the bunker. Inside, everything is equipped in the spirit of the Soviet era: there are posters on the walls, gas masks and various devices on the shelves. Moreover, those who passed the quest note that all the objects in the rooms are genuine. The bunker itself is indeed a bomb shelter in the basement of the house. According to the story invented by the organizers, the premises have long been abandoned due to some terrible secret associated with the mutations of the predecessors of those who went down there again. The objectives of the game: to find out the truth about what happened, find rations, defuse the bomb and get out.
Stalin's bunker
The quest "Stalin's bunker" is considered one of the best in Volgograd, is also quite popular in Moscow and will be of interest to people who are still unraveling the secrets of history associated with Joseph Stalin. The action develops in an analogue of the cabinet of the “leader of the peoples”, in which he spent a large amount of time and kept the secrets of the superpower - the Soviet Union. As soon as the team members get inside, the bunker doors are closed, and you should not expect hospitality from the Secretary General - he is ready to punish all violators of his peace with all severity. The players have a certain amount of time to find a way out, and it is better for them to do it quickly, otherwise the bunker, together with its guests, will fly into the air. Like all other quests, it is filled with all kinds of riddles and puzzles, soundtrack and the presence in the room of a situation appropriate for the occasion.
Quest reviews
There are many who wish to complete the Bunker quest. The reviews left by the participants are both positive and negative. In most cases, people appreciate the complexity of the puzzles and the interior. They speak positively about games in which victory is achieved not only with the exit from the bunker, but also with the salvation of one’s own life, and even the whole of humanity. The more thoughtful the quest, the more satisfied participants remain. Therefore, lovers of tickling nerves want to plunge into the artfully created atmosphere and go through the quest "Bunker". Moscow as the center of the country and a huge metropolis is obliged to meet all the needs of consumers, respectively, provides a large selection of quests. The storyline is usually built around saving the world in the past or the future, where the main task is to defuse the bomb or prevent the attack of enemies.
In Moscow, for example, there is the opportunity to visit the Bunker quest, where the action takes place during the Second World War, or the team will have to prevent a terrorist attack. One way or another, a limited amount of time is allotted to the rescue mission, and the fewer minutes the participants remain, the more they panic. Responses to such real games are often enthusiastic, as people consciously go to them in search of thrills and adrenaline.
