Are royalties owed when I use UE4 to test the design and systems in my companies Alternate Reality Games or city games or anything of the sort?

As Canon (atypic) notes using UE4 as an internal scenario design tool would not carry a royalty. Your post calls out a number of different use cases. Some I am not familiar with. I’ve been in a few Escape Rooms (love’em) so I get that one.

What are: alternate reality games, city games, and other real life interactive entertainment?

-j