Well, yes. It's a game you play with other people. Have you never encountered a game before? Did you know that when you play chess, you are not actually commanding real knights and bishops to fight each other?
You reminded me of a game called "Battle Chess", in which bishops hold glaives, the rook is a stone golem, pawns carry short swords. And yes, they do battle to the death in accordance to the rules in chess.
I played it years ago, and found that the death scene was different for each thing attacked. It was quite entertaining :)
I remember the first time I saw a king kill a bishop. I was expecting something fancy, and instead the king just pulled out a handgun and opened fire.
I did an escape room last week, while it was quite fun... the things you had to do to get out weren't exactly inventive. It was more luck than anything else, as you couldn't work out what to do. There wasn't really any logic to it, no connections between challenges just a load of unrelated tasks that lead to the door opening.
That said I'd still recommend it though, at least give it a try!