To answer this Critical Challenge Question, we first researched the importance of motivation within game-based learning, since a Digital Escape Room is a game rather than a gamification practice. We then explored the discourse that has studied how game-based learning affects levels of engagement. Finally, we will look at our own results from the REBEL Entrepreneur Program and analyze whether participants found game-based learning motivating and engaging, and under what conditions. The foundational research will view the results from a perspective of young adult learners and entrepreneurial programs, rather than a school or classroom environment. Much of the research combines or uses gamification and game-based learning interchangeably, so we have left both in the narrative.