It is no surprise at all that smartphone technology and the internet are completely changing the way we live and do business. From banking to shopping virtually every industry has been impacted by these technologies, and the escape room industry has been the same. Initially, if you were interested in starting an escape room, you would require a fairly extensive real estate property, and with many different decorated rooms and props and staff to set up the room after each client was done with their room. With mobile applications, this way of operating escape rooms is no longer the only model. Escape rooms have now become digitized

Take for example, Castle Breakout. Castle Breakout offers escape games in many different situations such as a castle, a dungeon, several other situations. This concept is no different from any other escape room, except for one interesting fact - they operate entirely online. You will have to download their app to participate in their games. Unlike conventional escape rooms, they do not operate from a physical location or offer escape rooms in a physical real estate property. This allows Castle Breakout to reach players all over the world at any time of the day, 365 days in the year from their official website. By operating a conventional escape room business you could never reach so many people or maintain those hours of operation. The benefits of operating online have contributed to Castle Breakout's massive success. As a studio Cloudburst has had 14 million downloads, with 8 million downloads alone 2015. Castle Breakout provides the same mental benefits for its users even though it operates entirely online. Escape rooms are great at developing your mind. The puzzles, challenges, and problems that you will face will in Castle Breakout will undoubtedly test your mind and your thinking capabilities. 

Escape room based games have been proven to help develop an individual's problem-solving skills, mood, IQ, mental health and stress levels. So if you do not feel like driving to your nearest escape room, or have no one else to play with, you can always download an escape room based game app like Castle Breakout and challenge your brain from the comfort of your bedroom. With escape rooms, the players need to use all of their senses and assess their surrounding area. The participants need to use their ears, eyes, brains and their entire body to decipher all of the clues at hand. Prior knowledge of the game or experience is not required to join an escape room. Both young children and senior citizens can participate in escape room games.

By offering escape room services exclusively online, this online technology has forever changed the escape room industry and its connection with the real estate industry. Years ago, physical escape rooms where considered to be the only way to operate in this industry. Players were required to meet at a physical escape room location are then learn from, study, and use their surroundings to achieve their preset goals. Each room was themed in a certain way to challenge and thrill participants to endeavor to work together. However, by operating entirely online, this has dramatically reduced escape room's operating costs because they no longer have to maintain escape room real estate properties or a maintenance staff, everything is safe and secure online. Castle Breakout's success in revolutionizing the Escape Room industry has lead to them being featured in the Academy of Art University and a growing community of happy users. It will be interesting to see how online technologies will continue to shape and impact the world in the future.