Mother of Frankenstein is a narrative puzzle game based on the life of Mary Shelley. It is a collaborative experience featuring 12-18 hours of gameplay divided between three volumes. You'll solve puzzles, construct 2D and 3D jigsaw puzzles, and closely read a series of gorgeously rendered documents, all of it designed to tell an exciting and emotional story unlike anything you've experienced in a tabletop game before.
In Volume 2, you'll follow Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, and Claire Claremont to a ball at Castle Frankenstein (yes, Castle Frankenstein was a real place). You'll construct a 500-piece circular puzzle of the castle floorplan in order to work out just what happened that fateful evening. Afterwards, you'll need to solve the puzzles that alchemist Conrad Dippel set for Mary Shelley while educating her in the nascent field of "galvanism"--research that would one day inspire her famous novel.
Mother of Frankenstein was created by New York Times bestselling author Tommy Wallach and Terry Pettigrew-Rolapp. Tommy and Terry are the founders of Hatch Escapes, home of Lab Rat, the #1 escape room in Los Angeles (LA Mag, TERPECA), and The Ladder, which won a prestigious THEA (Themed Entertainment Award) in 2025 (alongside The Sphere in Las Vegas, the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremonies, and two Disney parks).
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