Self-Guided The Dortmund Syndicate City Escape Game
Delve into the mysterious realm of The Dortmund Syndicate City Escape Game, a self-guided adventure taking place within the intricate urban maze of Dortmund. Unravel cryptic clues, tackle challenging puzzles and collaborate with your team to uncover truths, pushing your strategic abilities to the limit in your mission to overcome this thrilling simulation!
About The Dortmund Syndicate
The Dortmund Syndicate is a self-guided City Escape Game in the city centre of Dortmund. In this immersive City Game in Dortmund, your team will collaborate to track down the elusive Magnus and recover six stolen formulas by solving puzzles, completing tasks and overcoming challenges. With a strong focus on teamwork, storytelling and step-by-step mission progression, this self-guided city game delivers an engaging urban adventure through problem-solving and cooperation.
1.5-2 hours of play time
3-4 km walking distance
Start at Dortmund, Markt
Start, pause & continue whenever you want
Play on your smartphone, use the Loquiz app
2-5 people per smartphone
What you’ll experience during the game
In *The Dortmund Syndicate*, you and your team are placed at the center of a high-stakes escape mission unfolding on the streets of Dortmund. The story follows a criminal mastermind named Magnus, who has stolen six experimental formulas, and your task is to track him down before they disappear for good. As the mission progresses step by step, players navigate the city in real time, unlocking each chapter of the unfolding narrative as new information and locations are revealed.
Throughout the game, you’ll solve layered puzzles, crack codes and take on collaborative challenges that demand sharp thinking, precise communication and group decision-making. Each task is woven directly into the story, keeping the action grounded in purpose and urgency. With the flexibility to pause and pick up the mission at your own pace, your team controls how the story moves forward. Dortmund becomes more than just a backdrop—it’s the environment where your decisions shape the outcome.
Who is it for?
This City Game is perfect for anyone who enjoy teamwork, puzzles and fast-paced, mission-driven games. It’s a great fit for:
Whether you’re visiting Dortmund or already know the city well, this City Escape Game offers a unique way to work together, think strategically and experience a thrilling mission outside the walls of a traditional escape room.
What’s included?
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How to play
Book the City Game, check the email we send you with the instructions, download the Loquiz App and begin your gaming experience!
Book your The Dortmund Syndicate experience now
Per group
€ 25,95
Book your The Dortmund Syndicate experience now
A 1.5–2 hour self-guided City Escape Game in Dortmund: complete missions, solve puzzles and recover the stolen formulas at your own pace.
Per group
€ 25,95
The story of The Dortmund Syndicate
A powerful organisation is hiding dangerous formulas that should never fall into the wrong hands. When these formulas are stolen by a rogue alchemist named Magnus, the authorities turn to an unlikely group of experts to solve the problem: you. In exchange for your freedom, you are given one mission. Track down Magnus, recover the six stolen formulas and return them before it’s too late.
As the story unfolds, you step into a race against time filled with secrets, deception and unexpected twists. Each decision brings you closer to uncovering Magnus’ trail and reclaiming the formulas. Work together, follow the clues and complete the mission before the consequences become irreversible.
Your start location
After booking, you will receive an email with your login details and simple instructions to begin the game. On the day you want to play, just head to the start location at Dortmund, Markt, log in on your smartphone and begin your investigation. From there, the story unfolds as you move through the city, solve puzzles and follow the clues at your own pace.
How The Syndicate City Game works
Discover how this self-guided city escape game guides your team through the mission, step by step.
Start whenever you want
Begin the mission the moment you arrive at the starting location, with no fixed departure time.
Follow the GPS route
Move between mission checkpoints as new challenges unlock throughout the game.
Solve puzzles and crack codes
Work together to complete high pressure challenges that test logic, speed and teamwork.
Complete creative mission tasks
Take on interactive challenges, including creative photo assignments and puzzle based missions that advance the story.
Uncover clues and recover formulas
Each solved challenge helps you secure one of the six stolen formulas and move closer to completing the mission.
Play at your own pace
Pause the mission whenever you like and continue when your team is ready.
How The Syndicate City Game works
Discover how this self-guided city escape game guides your team through the mission, step by step.
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