Really excited for this new updated team-building landscape as we had a brilliant session with the last one!
At my last remote company of about 45-50 remote employees (Common Code), we completed the foundational escape room (navigating in a spaceship back to Earth). It was phenomenal in terms of being able to learn about a colleague's communication style and to adapt under the high pressure that the timed and challenging tasks created (don't want to give off too much here).
I'd hope that with the updated 'The Mystery of Isla Perdida' there is also a refresh to the post-team building session. It felt that with the document-style method that team members could 'skip' the work that would be required to bring out the lessons for this truly memorable and valuable exercise - similar to what happens in a board room in the office though! I think the best part of this is that because there is so much engagement in the team-building 'game' of the whole thing, that you get better results in a remote team than one of those 'fill in a survey or do a performance review session with your manager'.
Another aspect I like that I hope is delivered phenomenally again is that under the current environment, is that it provides an ability for new team-members to get to know what eachother's weaknesses or strengths are - there's nothing like demonstrating this during the 'simulation'!
I would love to run this new session with my new start-up, Ampjar.com, because we have a globally distributed team from day 1 but it's grown faster than knowing individual personalities. We might have to do this during two different time-zones to take into account the northern and southern hemisphere since this wouldn't be so much fun
All the best to the Skyrocket your Team!