This LA Escape Room Explores Corporate Greed—and Shows How Corruptible You Really Are

An escape room is not mere entertainment but can, in fact, be experienced as a work of narrative art.

Tommy Wallach, right, and Terry Pettigrew-Rolapp created The Ladder, a complex branching narrative that explores corporate greed, on April 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS

By Todd Martens From Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES—Word got out that there was a whistleblower wanting to meet. The company was suspicious, but this was the first overt notice that our place of work was corrupt. Should we investigate and see what ethics were being breached, or play dumb and stay loyal to the firm? We were divided.