As the Variety site reports, Ubisoft’s production will be location-based, which means that it will be available in specialized rooms (Ubisoft speaks of 630 partners) and not distributed on domestic platforms. This escape room of one hour will bear the same name as Pathé’s film and will invite players to put on the uniform of the Paris firefighters in their fight against the fire which ravaged part of the cathedral on the night of April 15, 2019.
A monument that Ubisoft particularly appreciates since the publisher had already given 500,000 euros to participate in the efforts to rebuild the building, without forgetting to distribute its Assassin’s Creed Unity of 2014, episode in which the building had been carefully modeled. On September 10, 2020, Ubisoft also published Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time, a free virtual tour precisely based on the 18th century reconstruction present in the game.
An attachment noticed by Pathé and Jean-Jacques Annaud who then approached the publisher in early 2021 to produce a short game accompanying the release of the film. “Like any escape game, it’s about puzzles and cooperation with your teammates. The idea is to fight your way through the cathedral to find relics and fight the fire, because you have to save Notre-Dame before the time is up“, explains Deborah Papiernik, in charge of strategic partnerships at Ubisoft.